Topic: painting

This week's featured artist is Karen Freedman, an abstract painter from Pennsylvania working in the medium of encaustic. Encaustic, as you may already know, is a form of painting that uses molten wax instead of oil, acrylic or water to adhere pigment onto a flat surface. What makes Karen's paintings stand out to me are the beautiful color combinations she uses, as well as the simple repeating...

By Dianne Mize, permanent contributing writer for EmptyEasel.com. It’s always exciting to encounter a painting where every shape and image play an important role within the total composition. One simple method for making this happen is by observing and manipulating edges to achieve a specific result. How do edges affect a composition? Edges are the boundaries that form shapes. They can be...

This week's featured artist is Richard Hearns, a painter from Dublin, Ireland. Richard's style of painting combines a rather minimalist approach to landscapes (by simplifying shapes and avoiding details) with expressive textures and brushstrokes. As you can imagine, this makes for some very intriguing works of art. The following paintings are just a few of Richard's more expressive pieces, and...