"ART REIMAGINES REALITY"  - Ellen Fisch

The medium of photography readily lends itself to making choices. Especially in the "digital age" of photography and with a multitude of...

Photography is a unique aesthetic medium in that it can be a premeditated and studied technique or a spontaneous art form. Using the...

I often take photographs of places. I create stories of places through themed exhibits of images that communicate a specific place as I...

Digital photography is not as sure a thing as one might expect. In the "old days," it is true that until I got into the darkroom or the...

I love to take photographs. Even beyond looking through my lens, I love to look directly at things: study them, observe, look at how...

Recently I had the pleasure of joining two artist friends at the home of another artist, whom I was looking forward to meeting. As it...

I recently received a request for an interview from a Malaysian university student majoring in design. Very respectfully, through a...

Almost every artist seeks improvement, advancement, recognition for good work. Of those artists whom I've encountered, few are...

Whatever your photographic subject, you will want your sepia photography to be excellent. Here are a few tips that have worked well for...

Values create space, perspective, interest and a dynamic among elements in a work. Values are the lights and darks and how these...

Details, details, details. The addition or lack of details creates interest in the work. Whether it be a sprig of parsley on the plate...

For a number of years I painted portraits of dogs. During that time, I sketched dogs at every opportunity. There were many. Living in...

The are times when I am working on an image and I accidentally create something other than I intended. This happens in all areas of our...

In this post I take a different direction from my usual, which is analyzing photography and art concepts in terms of my own photography. ...

The romance of Valentines Day was as overwhelming as it was charming. Tweets, blogs, cards, chocolates, champagne, roses and all the...

There is a magic component to any art form, in my opinion. There is the skill of getting on pointe for the dancer or drawing a head...

There is something so appealing about entering a realm of the future. Of course, the future may be 20 years hence or a moment away. It...

Today we are experiencing a blizzard in New York City. The first serious storm of winter. The snow blankets all in a crystalline white...

There is something compelling about texture. Texture creates dynamic interplay in a composition. Architecture of the past depended on...

There is always a fascination with looking through one dimension and beyond. Perhaps when Leonardo DaVinci said: "The eyes are the...

The old saying "A picture is worth a thousand words," is true for me. A picture tells me a story. The story may be personal,...

I love architecture. One of my majors in college was architectural drawing. I spent 7+ years as an architectural draftsman. I...