One of the great challenges for painters is a nocturne, a scene at night, or any scene in which the dominant light source is inside the frame. James Taylor sang... "In my mind, I'm gone to Carolina Can't you see the sunshine? Can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't...

"Peasant Burning Weeds," Vincent van Gogh. A tonalist canvas from Vincent, not the explosion of color and thick brushwork we expect. From his letters to his brother, Theo... "Do our inner thoughts ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one...

Drawings from "De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body)" by Andreas Vesalius, et al. Ink on paper. I was in Dallas over this past weekend to see my daughter. Visited the art museum and took in a stunning exhibition of Flemish masterworks. "Saints,...