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With so much interest in plein air painting these days, it's easy to overlook how important drawing skills can be to the landscape painting artist. Fundamentally, drawing is both a way of seeing and a way of knowing a subject. If you can draw it, then you own it. It is in your visual library and...
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This is another complicated charcoal drawing, one done by an artist completing her first level of study at Studio Incamminati. I have shown it in three stages, ranging from the beginning of the drawing process to the end. The light is from the front right, and the subjects include metal and glass objects...
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Marjorie Forgues' figure drawing, day 1. Marjorie Forgues' figure drawing, day 2. Taking a painting or drawing class is always a learning experience, but often I find I learn a great deal from other artists in the class as well. This is especially true if I am able to see the other student's...
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This is a long pose drawing that made it into my "evaluate" pile. Part of the artistic learning process for me is learning how to evaluate my work, not on a piece by piece basis, but collectively. This summer I am looking at my drawing art works for progress— looking for plateaus in how...
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Garvies Point 2 , oil on linen, 28 x 42, 2009. All works by Rob Zeller. I’ve always dreamed of having something, anything—shoes, a coat, a car!—custom made. While all of those are pretty much still out of my reach, I know that I can custom design how I get my art training. There are...
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I recently joined a gym in my neighborhood, with the hopes of working off some of those extra holiday pounds that seem to wear out their welcome around this time every year. My schedule is pretty busy, so I try to streamline my visits, making a beeline for the treadmill as soon as I arrive. Occasionally...
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Brian Riley
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15 Feb 2010
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Filed under: Drawing, plein air, how to draw, How To Paint, landscape painting, Portrait Painting, Artist Daily, still life, Oil Painting, How to Draw People, Drawing Basics, Landscape Drawing, Art
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In the new atelier she opened in Rome, Andrea J. Smith teaches students to use a limited palette of colors when painting exactly what they see from a measured distance away from the subject and the easel. by M. Stephen Doherty Andrea J. Smith made corrections on a student’s sight-size drawing at...
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It's crazy to say that horses have a visual advantage over humans, but with eyes on opposite sides of their heads, they surely don't see in three-dimensional terms like we do. There are times especially for beginners when seeing less--seeing a scene as an utterly flat, two-dimensional plane-...
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One of my favorite things about our quarterly magazine Workshop is that in almost every issue one can find a teacher swear by a rule in one article and another teacher in another article swear by the exact opposite. They are both right--or I should say, they are both only wrong in thinking their stance...
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I can't speak for anyone else, but I sure enjoyed Drawing Day 2009 ! I went to Central Park with a friend, loaded down with drawing pencils, drawing sketchbooks, painting supplies, and Gatorade. Several scenes screamed out to be captured in a quick pencil sketch , but we kept walking through the...
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Many pastelists consider their pieces to be paintings. Here at American Artist, we have tried to steer clear of the debate on whether pastel is a drawing medium or a painting medium, although when put against the wall and poked in the chest, we'll call them paintings. (Don't mess with pastelists...
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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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David Jon Kassan comments on Robert C. Dacey's Andrea in Shadow. Andrea in Shadow by Robert C. Dacey, charcoal drawing on Bristol board, 20 x 30. by David Jon Kassan This piece is a great figure drawing study in light and dark contrasts. It has a strong mood—mysterious and unique, like a film...
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Read the transcript from yesterday's live online chat and drawing tutorial with colored pencil artist Arlene Steinberg. Be sure to attend our next live chat with pastel artist Janet Monafo on Monday, June 9 at 2pm EST. 2008-05-12 11:00:03.0 Administrator: You have joined a chat with Arlene Steinberg...
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American Artist
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7 Jul 2008
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Because most of his Pennsylvania landscapes begin with his photographs, Peter Fiore considers his paintings reorchestrations of reality. “A painting is what I envision,” he says, “not necessarily what nature gave me.” by Linda S. Price Barn at Bowman’s 2006, oil on linen...