Before you begin painting, or even consider painting, ask yourself why you want to paint landscapes or any other subject. Is it because it lets you replicate the appearance and feel of what your eyes ...

If you want oil paintings of aspen trees or cityscapes, Sparky Lebold is not your guy. But if you want traditional, richly textured landscapes of the sea, open spaces, rundown buildings, figures and ...

ANNA KING: The first thing I'm going to show you is mixing colours. It's very rarely that I would ever use colours straight out of the tube, especially things like black and white, because, if you ...

Award-winning artist Randy Knowles will demonstrate oil painting at the Reading Art Association meeting Wednesday, Jan. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Guild Hall, First Congregational Church, on Sanborn Street.