Paintings | Thomas Michael Nieman Art | Pennsylvania based Painter

How to Use Facebook Collections to Organize Artistic Reference Material Introduction: If you're an artist, you know how crucial it is to...

Have you ever wished you had an inexpensive, sturdy, flexible and reliable system for carrying your wet plein air panels after a painting...

Yes! Mental models —those powerful thinking frameworks used by top performers in business, academia, investment titans and science...

If you're a plein air painter, you know the struggle: you're out in the field, the light is changing fast, and your gear is a mess. Your...

9 rules from Stoicism grounded in wisdom, and translated beautifully into the life of a landscape painter , tailored to help guide...

Hikers, fishermen and dog walkers seem to love walking along the path left behind in years past by the Wilkes-Barre & Eastern (WB&E)...

Long ago, seeds for several book ideas were planted in my mind. Admittedly this was not one of them but about eight months ago I started...

“Morning Walk on the Pathway Behind Blue Mountain Lake” 5” x 7” oil on linen. Painted on site and finished off in studio Healing Through...

The more I paint, the more I realize that it’s just not that important to always find a new place. This group of paintings and sketches...

Nearly every discussion I have with non-artists (or beginner artists) about painting leads to a conversation about talent. I hear phrases...

The Art of Balance: How a Busy Part-Time Artist Can Stay Creatively Productive with a Calendar, a Morning Routine, and a “Big 3” To-Do...

When we admire a beautiful painting or drawing, we might first be captivated by its subject, colors, or textures. But beneath all of that...

Perspective is one of the most powerful tools an artist can use to control space, depth, and visual storytelling in a work of art. There...

Plein air painting, the practice of painting outdoors directly from nature, has long been cherished by artists for its immediacy,...

The human soul as described across mystic traditions and major religions, is often seen as the eternal, divine essence within each...

In landscape painting, it's tempting to attempt to render every leaf, every ripple, every rock with precision. We often fall into the...

Blind contour drawing is a drawing exercise where the artist draws the outline of a subject without looking at the paper and without...

New York Harbor Lowell Birge Harrison - This little book is a compilation of impromptu talks that Burch Harrison gave on landscape...

Here's a list of 100 art journal prompts designed for entries using pencil, charcoal, watercolor, casein, or oil paints. They range from...

Art journaling is one of the most personal, expressive, and liberating creative practices an artist—or anyone—can embrace. Whether you’re...