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This article was written by long-serving Board member and Master Signature artist James Bruce Jr., (January 1938 – December 2020). It is reprinted from our archives and outlines the methods and criteria the OPA jury uses to select paintings for the National Juried Exhibition. We hope it helps you select your best work to enter ...
As artists, we have all read or heard stories about American artists traveling abroad and returning filled with new ideas, having had great adventures and learning from the masters in the museums. As a curator, a gallerist, editor/writer and fine artist, I have seen and learned first-hand the value of travel abroad...
By Aimee Erickson OPA
Composing a picture has a parallel in music: There are only so many notes, but the number of tunes is unlimited.
In painting, we begin with the format: the picture plane, defined...
A close friend of the great American artist, Edward Hopper, once said of him, “He was emotionally depressed with long periods of unconquerable inertia, sitting for days at a time before his easel in helpless unhappiness, unable to raise a hand to break the spell.”
It is a fact that one’s creative juices can ebb and flow. It’s not pleasant when they ebb, particularly...
“When I reacquainted myself to oil painting in the late 90’s, I’d already been a professional musician (ok drummer) and actor for most of my adult life. I was a realtor too at the time so combining that with all my other “art idiocy” ...
