"Road Into the Valley, Moonrise," Eduard Steichen, 1906. Another love of mine seldom attempted by most painters... a "nocturne," a painting of a nighttime scene, preferably absent artificial light. (Nocturne is also a musical term.) If you can, view the image using a...

"Adoration of the Artist," John Lasater IV, oil. John is a northwest Arkansan known for his award-winning plein air landscapes. But here is a studio portrait. So soft and quiet. All low chroma, tertiary colors. Compressed value range, middle tones with no bright...

Rico Lebrun (Italian/American), "Crucifixion," ink, 1958. "After Christ was taken down and the Golgotha scaffold scrubbed with whitewash, someone discovered that without the irrelevant trivia of blood and pain, the Cross made a composition of 'significant horizontals...