Q: My wife and I live in an older, rustic home, and we’d like to freshen it up with some paint. What’s the best paint for wood surfaces in our home, indoors and out? Is oil-based or water-based the ...

In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...

Q: I live in a condo development. The association is requiring owners to paint their patio fences. The fences were made of pretreated wood and were painted gray. The paint has never stayed on very ...

Local artist and psychotherapist Ellen MacDonald, has put together a two month and two part exhibit of her oil paintings on ...

From scraping to sanding to priming to painting, it’s delightful once you figure out how to avoid the pitfalls.

I have seen Patrick's carving change because of the cedar. He has to put a lot of care into it because it is so valuable on its own.”She said her own oil painting has also changed in response to the ...