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The Perfect Blend of Literal and Abstract

When I say "the perfect blend," I feel a little bit like I am describing a gourmet coffee flavor, but there really is a perfect blend that exists in pastel painting. For me, the crème de la crème of pastel drawings combines a certain...

Published 18 Mar 2013 12:53 AM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Drawing, How To Paint, still life, Pastel, Drawing Basics
I Want to Be By His Side

If I had a time machine and could travel back to learn how to oil paint from any artist in history, I would not spare a second thought setting the clock to circa 1895, smack dab in the middle of the era when Odilon Redon was refining his fine art oil...

Published 1 Mar 2013 12:27 AM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: How To Paint, still life, Oil Painting, Pastel, Art
Add Water and BAM!

I recently had an Emeril Lagasse moment--and it happened when I mixed pastels with water for the first time. Three Sunflowers on Blue by Jimmy Wright, pastel painting, 30 x 41. A while back, I confided that I wanted to start an earnest study and exploration...

Published 21 Jan 2013 12:03 AM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Drawing, How To Paint, still life, Pastel, Drawing Basics, Art
He Truly Had the Joy of Sight

It’s quite sad that 18 th -century painter Luis Melendez died poor and relatively unknown and yet he is now recognized as one, if not the, greatest still life art painter of his day. His style and approach as a still life artist breathed new life...

Published 18 Jan 2013 12:26 AM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: watercolor painting, still life, Oil Painting, Pastel, Art
The Best Instructor I've Ever Had

When I met a woman who told me about the best watercolor painting instructor she'd ever had, I had to know more. There are so many artists out there whose work is compelling but that doesn't always make them good teachers. I had to know what put...

Published 22 Oct 2012 12:43 AM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: How To Paint, watercolor painting, still life, Pastel, Art
Confessing All of Your Shady Ways

One of my unhappiest memories of making art is drawing a really 70s-looking still life that my art teacher set up for us in the sixth grade. I remember being soooo bored and not interested at all in what we were doing until my teacher gave us a challenge...

Published 3 May 2012 10:49 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Drawing, still life, shading, Pastel, Drawing Basics, Art
Do You Know All Your Lines?

Two Women with Still Life by Willem de Kooning, pastel and charcoal on paper, 22 1/4 x 18 3/4 in., 1952. The artifice of line is one of the aspects of drawing that I am most in love with. The fact that we can take line—which doesn't exist in...

Published 22 Jan 2012 10:33 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Drawing, how to draw, figure drawing, sketching, still life, Pastel, Drawing Basics, Art
The Best Art for a Control Freak Like Me

One of my favorite still-life artists is G. Daniel Massad. He plays with space in an incredible way. His pastel paintings are stark, eerie, and lovely all at once. Above, Three Plums and Rosehip , 2005, pastel, 11 x 10 7/8. What I love best about still...

Published 21 Jun 2011 10:39 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: How To Paint, perspective drawing, still life, Oil Painting, Pastel, Drawing Basics, Art
Make a Painter’s Resolution

I’m starting this year by reassessing my approach to painting and recommitting to more concentrated studio time. I don’t necessarily feel that I want to completely revamp my process, but there are a few old habits that I want to break and a few new ones I want to instill. I’ve found that the more people I tell about my plans, the more likely I am to follow through, so here are my painting resolutions for the New Year:
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Published 2 Jan 2011 10:59 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: plein air, How To Paint, Portrait Painting, acrylic painting, Artist Daily, still life, Oil Painting, Painting, Pastel, Color, Art
Counting Down to the Big Event

Twilight by Anthony Ryder, 1998, pencil and pastel on gold paper, 25 x 19. The event I’ve been looking forward to since I came to Artist Daily is just a few days away. Weekend With the Masters 2010 is almost here. I’ve been told that the energy...

Published 19 Sep 2010 10:49 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: plein air, How To Paint, Artist Daily, still life, Pastel, Drawing Basics, Art

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