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Oil painting demonstration by Robert Liberace. To listen to Robert Liberace talk during one of his demonstrations, sometimes, fleetingly, it sounds to me like there is an occasional contradiction. The most recent example I can point to is when he talked during his most recent demo about drawing and painting...
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Passing clouds from my window by Jos van Riswick . The artist has made a commitment to doing a postcard-size oil painting a day. Wherever I visit, I always send my parents postcards. It's a way of sharing my travel experience with them; giving them a sense of what I'm seeing and the environment...
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Self-portrait in Red by Melvin Toledo, oil on canvas, 20 x 20. Artist Daily Member Spotlight: Melvin Toledo When I can see the "art" in the everyday, that's when I know I'll be working and thinking at my fullest potential. I'm still making my way on that road, but Melvin Toledo...
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A photo of the plein air landscape site I chose to paint. I can still recall the first morning I saw this little bend in the river ike it was yesterday. The air was still cool and breezy, the sun was glinting off the water, the bees in their hive were humming—yes, it was everything a plein-air...
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Filed under: Plein Air, painting, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, figure drawing, sketching, Landscape Drawing, Drawing Basics, How to Draw People, Art, Perspective Drawing
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The drama of this charcoal and pencil drawing by Lilian Wescott Hale is in the bold contrast of value of the figure's skin, dress, and hair. I love all kinds of art: super complicated installations, amazing marble sculptures, and virtuosic canvases filled with color and form. But when it comes down...
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Squall Line by John Hulsey (30 x 40, oil painting). John Hulsey and Ann Trusty created their website, The Artist’s Road , to inspire their readers and students with practical art tips and plein air painting techniques for the traveling artist. John and Ann have been blogging for us at Artist Daily...
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Sketch of a Man by John Singer Sargent, charcoal drawing. Adapted from an article by Mark G. Mitchell. Looking at a John Singer Sargent's drawings, I really can't mistake them for anything but the work of his hand. His line work is so thin, firm, and consistent, even in figure drawings full of...
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Peter Kelsey's cast drawing of the male torso. Hey fellow artists! Drawing anatomy seems overwhelming to me sometimes, but if I focus on strategies for HOW to learn it, it starts to seem doable. Here are a few tips I learned from a recent article written by Dan Gheno in Drawing magazine: Peter Kelsey's...
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My painting, Fate , was given an honor award at the 2011 Portrait Society of America International Competition. For the Portrait Society of America Conference in Atlanta this year, I was invited to participate in a panel on Professionalism, Leadership, and Service. I was asked to speak to “Building...
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Hurd's work (above, Cows , oil on canvas, 2009, 72 x 72) is a bit tongue in cheek when it comes to the idea of the American dream, playing on the idea of sleepwalking to achieve those "dreams." That’s one of the first questions I put to artist Caitlin Hurd about her oil paintings...
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Street Scene with Barbershop by Edward Hopper, n.d., charcoal on paper, 7-1/4 x 9-1/4 in. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Loch. All works courtesy of Thurston Royce Gallery of Fine Art, LTD. I don’t think I’d be exaggerating by calling Edward Hopper one of America’s national treasures...
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You can test your bias as a plein air painter by studying a scene, like this one of a city square in Provence, to see what your eye focuses on and what it passes over. As plein air artists, we have had to become very aware of our own visual filtering processes--our visual biases. We train ourselves to...
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Hollywood Note: Thursday Night at the ***-and-Bull, It's the Maid's Night Out by Thomas Hart Benton, 1937. A few weeks ago, I left Manhattan and went to Manhattan—Kansas, that is. I was a bit wary as I landed in the midst of a harsh storm, but looked forward to seeing all the Midwest had...
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Ron Hicks shows you how to get the most out of a portrait sketch and more in Mastering Oil Portrait Painting . Imagine breaking down even the most complex painting into just a handful of shapes. Painter Ron Hicks has found that the process of portrait painting can be intimidating, if not overwhelming...
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Cheers to the quiet moments at home that artists can capture. Sketch by James Jean . I wanted to take the opportunity to craft a New Year’s toast to acknowledge all the great art that has been created in the past and has yet to be done in the future; all the work being made across the world; and...