The Artist’s Blog

Explore diagonal composition using Madeira’s cliffs, peaks, and pools in this week’s art challenge!

Paint dramatic skies and expressive clouds in this week’s U.S. Virgin Islands challenge!

Practice separating background and foreground to create more depth and clarity in your art.

Explore the rule of thirds in this week's art challenge set in Portrush, Northern Ireland.

This week’s Landscape Art Club challenge takes us to Gorée Island, Senegal. A place of immense historical weight and visual richness, Gorée offers an intense study in texture — from eroded stone walls and shuttered colonial houses to haunting doorways. As we explore texture in art, we invite you to sketch, paint, or draw how surfaces carry meaning, memory, and atmosphere.

Painting lilacs means choosing what to show and what to leave out. Learn to simplify and sharpen with mass vs. detail, using references from Schleißheim.