A Kind of Seeing explores how painting can capture the emotional truth of fleeting moments. Artist Sam Keenan reflects on perception, memory, and the art of noticing — inspired by Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Eye and Mind.

Lighting controls mood. Learn practical lighting strategies—chiaroscuro, backlight, soft diffuse light—to shape emotion in your paintings.

Learn how composition, line, color, and light function like rhetorical devices in painting to persuade, invite, and unsettle viewers.

A gentle guide to five influential art philosophers—Merleau-Ponty, Dewey, Danto, Langer, Heidegger—and how their ideas inform painting practice.

Learn how to choose subject matter that sustains you: curiosity, memory, and repeated attention beat novelty every time.

Art matters beyond fame. Explore philosophical reasons — presence, meaning making, ethical attention — for making art regardless of recognition.

No studio? No problem. Practical, approachable ways to bring art into every day — observe, make small, and live with images.

A concise history of contemporary impressionist oil painting: how Impressionism’s light, gesture, and memory returned in modern practice.