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Paint Every Figure With the Power of a Portrait

Painting the people and places one sees every day can be either a mind-numbing trial or an impetus for creativity that just happens to be homeward bound. For New Jersey-based artist Michael de Brito--who has spent the last several years painting family members and friends in familiar surroundings, such as his grandmother's kitchen--it is the latter.
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Published 20 May 2013 12:26 AM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Portrait Painting, figure painting, Oil Painting, Drawing Basics, Art
I Think I Pulled a Muscle...Artistically Speaking

Sustain Your Art Business With a Sound Studio Practice, Starting with Warm-Ups When I think of a warm-up, it is usually a sweaty business in which you raise your heart rate, get your muscles loosened up, and stretch a bit. Warm-up exercises for artists...

Published 24 Apr 2013 12:06 AM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Portrait Painting, Drawing Basics, Art, Art Business
Our Free & Brand New eBook on Figure Painting

When I paint figures the work seems to matter more--I find that I'm more focused on the process than when I am just drawing fancifully from my head or creating a still life. And by "matter" I mean that the intensity is ratcheted up just...

Published 11 Jan 2013 12:44 AM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: How To Paint, Portrait Painting, figure painting, still life, Drawing Basics, Art
What's in a Nose?

I'm not telling you anything you don't already know when I say that successful portraiture is successful when the portrait artist, foremost, captures a likeness. Yes, I ardently believe that there has to be something more to the story—a...

Published 15 Aug 2012 12:21 AM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Portrait Painting, Artist Daily, Oil Painting, Pastel, Drawing Basics, Art Competitions, Art
Forget the Finishing Touches

I love Masterpiece Theater on PBS. Recently the movie Birdsong aired--a love story about a soldier on the battlefield of World War I and the lover he left behind. Claude Renoir Writing by Pierre Auguste Renoir, lithograph, 1902/3. There was a scene from...

Published 31 May 2012 10:11 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: How To Paint, Portrait Painting, Artist Daily, Oil Painting, Drawing Basics, Art
How I Built an Art Network in My Hometown

Patricia Watwood is a skilled oil painter and incredibly deserving of a lot of praise for the art career she has built for herself. She's also quite willing to share her approach to building a network for her art, as she attests below. Enjoy! The...

Published 3 Apr 2012 10:35 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Portrait Painting, Artist Daily, Oil Painting, How to Draw People, Drawing Basics, Art
Taking Off the Straightjacket

I am not a finicky person, so getting my hands dirty to get a job done is totally fine with me. But with painting, I can get so uptight and hesitant that the physical joy of it all goes right out the window. I'm trying to be better about what I'm...

Published 18 Mar 2012 10:40 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Drawing, How To Paint, Portrait Painting, Pastel, Drawing Basics, Art
Want to Show Painting Improvement Now?

Portraiture is, in my humble opinion, the domain of artistic masters. All the greats, such as Velazquez, Rembrandt, Goya, and Sargent, can be counted as incredibly skilled and innovative portrait artists in addition to being pretty brilliant at everything...

Published 11 Mar 2012 10:34 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: How To Paint, Portrait Painting, Oil Painting, Pastel, How to Draw People, Drawing Basics, Art, Drawing Faces
That Dog Won't Hunt

Cirque Tents by Terri Ford, pastel painting. It's what I thought to myself when I started to look into how to get layers of pastel to build up. It just didn't seem possible, or easily possible. But I did my research, and that dog will hunt! Here...

Published 24 Jan 2012 10:12 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Portrait Painting, Pastel, Drawing Basics, Art
Do It with a Stranger

Eva Mullarky by Kristin Künc, oil on linen, 9 x 13, 2011. I can be a really hard sell when it comes to portraiture because from a beginner painter's perspective, I'm not always sure how to get the most out of a portrait painting session....

Published 19 Jan 2012 10:51 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: How To Paint, Portrait Painting, Oil Painting, How to Draw People, Drawing Basics, Art, street art, Drawing Faces
Your Free Portrait Painting eBook--But I Didn't Get a Chance to Gift Wrap It

Ariadne by Janet Rogers, watercolor painting. Since coming to Artist Daily, my parents are both super supportive of me and our web community. My mom does her best to get everyone she knows to join us at Artist Daily, and my dad buys me art supplies in...

Published 11 Dec 2011 10:14 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: How To Paint, Portrait Painting, Artist Daily, watercolor painting, Oil Painting, Drawing Basics, Art
Surviving the Trauma of an Art Breakdown

I remind myself that even artistic legends like Michelangelo struggled. When he did the Sistine ceiling in fresco, a medium he wasn't familiar with, the first few sessions were stressful and trying for the artist. But he persevered and created one...

Published 6 Dec 2011 10:45 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Portrait Painting, Oil Painting, Pastel, Drawing Basics, Art, street art
Your Artwork. Our Cover. Your Chance Is Now!

Darren Kingsley Self-Portraiture: An Essential Artist's Exercise Regardless of style, artists are known to return time and again to working from the life model. The human form speaks to us on an instinctual level and offers a wellspring of fresh inspiration...

Published 7 Nov 2011 4:26 PM by Michael Gormley

Filed under: Portrait Painting, Artist Daily, Drawing Basics, Art
Can a Caricature Help My Portrait Painting? Plus Our Self-Portrait Contest!

The Grimaces by Louis-Leopold Boilly, 1823, lithograph, 13 1/8 x 10. A few weeks ago I was in the Met and saw "Infinite Jest," an exhibition of drawings and prints that explore satire and caricature from the Italian Renaissance to the present...

Published 3 Nov 2011 10:17 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Drawing, Portrait Painting, pencil drawing, Artist Daily, Oil Painting, Drawing Basics, Ink Drawing, Art, street art, Drawing Faces
Check Out These Beauties

Every time I get on Artist Daily I am a little bowled over by the strides and accomplishments we all are making in our art. I get the same feeling when I look at the winners of the Utrecht 3rd Annual Art Competition , whose winners were just announced...

Published 3 Nov 2011 2:42 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Portrait Painting, Artist Daily, Drawing Basics, Art Competitions, Art

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