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Back in 1994, after my husband and I relocated to New Hampshire, an artist friend invited me to join a group of painters and photographers who met every Wednesday morning at a quaint café in downtown Nashua. This group of about a dozen artists had been meeting for several years, and when I heard...
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Model James Orona When I was photographing George Towne’s step-by-step demonstration for the December 2009 issue of American Artist, I took 15 minutes to draw James Orona, the model who was posing for George. My Conté crayon sketch turned out not to be an accurate portrait of James, so I...
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Well, after an exhilarating and exhausting week in Colorado Springs (and a week off to rest and recuperate!) I am back en the Plein Air saddle and ready to return to my landscape-painting musings. I thought it would be appropriate to get back into En Plein Air with a recap of what happened during the...
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Plein Air Blog
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Allison
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1 Oct 2009
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Filed under: Plein Air, Joseph McGurl, oil, Kevin Macpherson, en plein air, Weekend With the Masters, Scott Christensen, George Gallo, Frank Serrano, workshop, Jacob Collins, Stephen Quiller, Steve Doherty
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For centuries, printmaking was a means of duplicating drawings and paintings. However, by the end of the 19th century, artists were creating etchings, lithographs, engravings, and woodcuts that were unique expressions, not reproductions of drawings or paintings. Even prints created through a process...
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Steve Doherty's Blog
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sdoherty
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10 Aug 2009
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Filed under: American Artist, Oil, Paper, Printmaking, Drawing, Steve Doherty, workshop, etchings, Abstraction, Legion Paper, lithographs, etching
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In 1990, American Artist hosted an “Art and Healing” conference in New Harmony, Indiana, in partnership with the Society of Layerists in Multi-Media and the Robert L. Blaffer Foundation. Several hundred artists came together to consider how creating art helped them address serious health...
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Steve Doherty blogged recently on releasing one's passion through painting, and his sixth point really rang true for me. Paint the same subject again, he wrote, and I've found that to be very helpful in terms of drawing as well. Steve's point was that the first painting of a given scene allows...
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If you are like most artists, you have a clear recollection of how you felt when one of your drawings or paintings was first put on display on a school bulletin board, in an art-school exhibition, or in a commercial gallery. All of a sudden, the artwork you didn’t think much about became the focus...
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I’ve recently enjoyed unexpected encounters with artists—both those I have known for years and those I was meeting for the first time. These encounters reminded me that we are all part of a community of artists that is, at once, local and global. The introductions to artists I’ve never...
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To be perfectly honest, there's a period between the moment an issue of Drawing leaves our hands to go to the printer and the moment when I have a chance to calmly peruse the finished printed product during which I am filled with trepidation and doubt. Was that last issue we just finished any good...
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The Drawing Blog
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Bob Bahr
on
5 May 2009
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Filed under: drawing, draftsmen, instruction, beginners, art materials, how to draw, Dan Gheno, drawing instruction, John Singer Sargent, top ten articles, draw, Ephraim Rubenstein, Steve Doherty, sight-size method, Julia Randall, beginner drawing, Patricia Hannaway, Linda S. Price, Prud'hon, Andrew Wyeth
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The articles we publish in American Artist and our quarterly magazines repeat basic advice about one of the most challenging aspects of painting: selecting and mixing colors. Here’s a summary of those recommendations. Start painting with just one or two colors so you understand how they differ...
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I’m curious to know if you have heard bickering or sensed some tension between competitive artists when they spoke during an art association meeting, while attending a gallery opening or art conference, exhibiting next to each other in an outdoor fair, or participating in a plein air painting event...
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UNTITLED II, AUGUST 19 by Don Bachardy, 1985, acrylic on paper 29 7/8 x 22 3/8. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York, New York. I recently watched the 2007 documentary Chris & Don: A Love Story and was quite moved by the fact that artist Donald Bachardy made hundreds of drawings and paintings of his...
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I came across the paintings that Daniel J. Keys posted in the members’ gallery of the American Artist website, and I posted a message indicating I was impressed with the still lifes he shared with members of the online community. Daniel and I began exchanging electronic messages, and I became convinced...
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The American Artist offices will be closed through the new year, but before we bid you farewell to prepare for our long winter’s nap, we thought we’d let you know what each member of the AA editorial staff is hoping to receive this holiday season. And in case anyone is checking…yes...
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One of the greatest things about new American Artist online platform is that it allows for an almost immediate exchange of ideas and opinions between American Artist editors and readers. A perfect example of this is the recent debate that occurred as a result of this post on our Editor-in-Chief Steve...