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I put aside my oil painting work to take up a sketchbook and watercolors to capture the sights and sounds around me during my trip . If you are a painter, you know that sometimes the best thing to do is get away from it all...and do more painting. I was very blessed this summer to take a wonderful vacation...
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Thinking Man by Jacob Collins, oil painting, 30 x 20, 2004. Jacob Collins: Weekend With the Masters Instructor Jacob Collins is a leading figure in the contemporary revival of classical painting. He earned a B.A. in history from Columbia College and attended the New York Studio School, the New York Academy...
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Some of the inspiration for the landscape in my painting, Leaves of Grass , came from found images of industrial areas along the New York waterfront. Sometimes in making a small study for a larger oil painting, an artist will sketch in certain areas very loosely. It's almost as if she says to herself...
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Di Fronzo painted the grassy fields in his landscape paintings with a nontraditional "comb" made with sixty or so individual hairs. All works by Francis Di Fronzo. Breaking out of a painting rut sometimes requires a little more oomph than just adding another color to your palette or going from...
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Known primarily for his figurative work and for leading a resurgence in classical art education through his Water Street Atelier and the Grand Central Academy of Art, in New York City, Jacob Collins is now the founder of the Hudson River Fellowship , where he aims to reconnect contemporary plein air...
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During a recent plein air workshop in Southern France, Judith Carducci helped students who worked with pen-and-ink, pastel, watercolor, and oil colors. The unifying themes of the 10-day class were that drawing basics are a foundation of all media and working from life would benefit every participant...
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Karyn
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11 Sep 2008
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Filed under: drawing, art, Drawing Basics, painting, pastel, how to draw, plein air, Portrait Painting, How to Paint, Oil Painting, Ink Drawing, Figure Painting
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During a recent plein air workshop in Southern France, Judith Carducci helped students who worked with pen-and-ink, pastel, watercolor, and oil colors. The unifying themes of the 10-day class were that drawing is a foundation of all media and working from life would benefit every participant. by M. Stephen...
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Six top artists combined observation, investigation, and invention to respond to the encompassing reality of the landscape. They will be exhibiting their sketches and studio paintings together for the first time this summer. by M. Stephen Doherty The difference between looking at a photograph and a great...
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American Artist
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9 Apr 2008
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Filed under: oil painting, figure painting, plein air, still life, landscape painting, how to paint, sketching, Drawing Basics, Art, Landscape Drawing, street art, Artist Daily
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Santa Fe artist Doug Higgins has many strategies for directing the viewer’s eye toward the center of interest and leading it around the painting. by Linda S. Price Painting at Smith Cove 2004, oil, 20 x 24. All artwork this article collection the artist. In composing this painting the artist was...
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In the winter 2006 issue of Workshop , John A. Parks tackled what is arguably the most difficult subject matter: how to organize color to paint the nature of light. We present an excerpt from the article with Park's advice about the basic principles behind painting figures in landscapes. Parks narrowed...