"Yellow Chair..." Scott Prior. My first assignment in Stanley Tasker's freshman drawing class was to visually describe to an alien from another planet how to make a shoe. I failed miserably. My brain wanted to know why in the hell ET might need to make a human shoe?...

"Kavanaugh Night," Tim Jacob, acrylic. I can't mention nocturnes without featuring the paintings of my good friend and childhood neighbor, Tim Jacob. Tim has created a series of night scenes around Little Rock and beyond, most of which are wet with rain on pavement....

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...