Paintings | Thomas Michael Nieman Art | Pennsylvania based Painter

Numinous is from the Latin word numen, meaning "nod of the head" or "divine will" (the latter sense suggesting a figurative nod, of...

Pastel is one of three main mediums I prefer to create my paintings in. I am very open to all mediums and hope to try them all! Pastel...

Check out this Painted Lady - Made from memory- Facebook Memories that is… This is exhibit "a" for how we can put Creative Composting on...

Some ideas take longer than others... "Art takes time— Monet grew his gardens before he painted them." --Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild...

Nearly every Wednesday night at 9pm EST we will walkthrough various things going on in the studio. These sessions will include things...

We had a long roadtrip to a soccer tournament in Virginia this weekend for our daughter, Amelia. On Saturday and Sunday our son Aiden...

The very first paintings I recall inspiring me to learn to paint at a young age were Claude Monet's Water Lilies and some of his many...

Sometimes I wonder how things would be if I stayed the course, completed my academic art-related studies and a career of as full-time...

Recently I invested in an online portrait workshop offered by Alain Picard. It was a fantastic experience. The focus of the workshop was...

Make the most of what’s around -- make the most of the time you have to create. As an introvert whose professional life has often left me...

"Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can...

Sounds oxymoronic doesn't it? Truthfully, if I have any hope of sustaining my painting practice over the long term I need a process for...

Sometime ago, I remember listening to an interview with Ed O'Neill (the actor who played Al Bundy on Married with Children and Jay...

Creating art requires a little bit of faith. Optimism is not required but faith certainly is a prerequisite. I don't mean to say that...

The seeds for yesterday were planted years ago when I started following Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on social media. See...

The value of art journaling is hard to quantify however my instincts tell me it is invaluable based upon the short time I've been doing...

Painting requires us to embrace thinking & problem solving. Landscape painting outside while immersed in nature intensifies this...

We are operating in abstraction as artists. This is a grood thing because it brings us protection and responsibility. Both are good...

“The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic, and...

Every painting can be your teacher. Whether your own or someone else's. A masterpiece or a total disaster of a painting. No matter the...