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مايو 2020

Questions from Joseph
for-us 31 مايو 2020
Joseph (who calls himself Sansu the Cat)   had some questions for me: What do you think it is about dinosaurs that excites our imagination, ...
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Proko Challenge Deadline Coming Monday
for-us 30 مايو 2020
We’re coming up on the deadline for the May Proko Challenge that I’ll be officiating. The goal is to reimagine something as a creature or ch...
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Schoonover Recalls Howard Pyle's Nature Excursions
for-us 29 مايو 2020
Howard Pyle and Frank Schoonover Illustrator Franklin Schoonover said that it was Howard Pyle's custom to take his students on frequent ...
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Heiligenschein
for-us 28 مايو 2020
Heiligenschein , is an optical effect where a bright spot appears to surround the cast shadow of the head of the observer. The glowing spot ...
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The Preservation of Fire
for-us 27 مايو 2020
At our forest campsite: roasted hot dogs, French potato salad, a sketch in gouache, and a thought about continuity.
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Quick Landscape Impression Alongside the Hudson River
for-us 26 مايو 2020
In this YouTube video ( Link to video ), I paint a quiet estuary from the edge of a forest. I'm using casein paint, a gouache-like paint...
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Adolph Menzel's Hochkirch Painting
for-us 25 مايو 2020
Adolph Menzel  (German 1815-1905) undertook this ambitious painting without a commission. It was a battle scene, but it didn't glorify t...
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Grouping Heads in a Composition
for-us 24 مايو 2020
"Alas, poor Yorick," scene from Hamlet by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret Compositional tip: If you're staging a scene with more than ...
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Luis Jiménez Aranda, Capturing Everyday Life
for-us 23 مايو 2020
Luis Jiménez y Aranda  (Edit: and his brother Jose) (1845–1928) painted moments from ordinary life in Spain.   Jose  Jiménez y Aranda The B...
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Attacked by a Bugling Elk
for-us 22 مايو 2020
Wildlife artist  Ken Carlson  (born 1937) learned to draw animals at the zoo." Eventually the director gave him the keys to the animal ...
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What's in Your Kit?
for-us 21 مايو 2020
Charlie asks: What’s in your kit? Everything I need for drawing or basic painting lives in a belt pouch which I bring everywhere. It's s...
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Alfred Munnings Paints a Horse
for-us 20 مايو 2020
Here's Alfred Munnings painting a white horse while a stableman holds the subject roughly in position. Scenes like this could have been ...
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Smooth the Husky Mix
for-us 19 مايو 2020
View this post on Instagram Smooth, the husky mix rescue, sketched in acrylic. #dogart #instadog #dogsofinstagram #husky...
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How do you paint portraits in gouache?
for-us 18 مايو 2020
Daniel asks: "I have been drawing portraits for some time, then chose gouache as my painting medium, not oil, because I have a very cra...
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Art Chat with Justin
for-us 17 مايو 2020
( Link to YouTube ) I enjoyed this conversation with Justin Donaldson. I should have explained that I can't do a video chat, because my ...
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Thomas Hart Benton Talks About Popularity
for-us 16 مايو 2020
In a vintage audio recording, Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) talks about art and popular taste.  He argues that advertising and illustratio...
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Object-come-to-life Challenge
for-us 15 مايو 2020
I'm looking forward to seeing and reacting to the new Proko challenge to draw or paint an object that comes to life as a creature or cha...
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"Lines and Colors" Review of Color in Practice
for-us 15 مايو 2020
 Charley Parker, in his blog  Lines and Colors , reviewed my new Gumroad tutorial " Color in Practice "      Here is an excerpt of...
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A Tip for Sketching Kids
for-us 14 مايو 2020
How do you draw kids without them being self conscious? Adolph Menzel "would go out in wind and weather but one day when there was too ...
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Portrait by Nicolai Fechin
for-us 13 مايو 2020
Nicolai Fechin  (1881-1955), born in Russia and ended his years in the southwestern USA. Beneath the eye-catching brush texture is a solid u...
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The Sphere in Character Models
for-us 12 مايو 2020
Classic characters from 1930s animation often used a ball for the head or the pelvis.  A good source of this style is the 1936 book  Cartoon...
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Gouache Seascape by William Trost Richards
for-us 11 مايو 2020
The  notes from the Brooklyn Museum  say: "Already established as a landscape painter in oils, William Trost Richards began working in ...
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Hiram and Joe in "Wear a Mask"
for-us 10 مايو 2020
View this post on Instagram Meet Hiram and Joe, two pals from Brooklyn and Queens. They're my entry for New York...
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Surrounded by Studies
for-us 10 مايو 2020
Here's a photo of Parisian-trained American artist Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903) in his studio. He was known for his paintings of the Ne...
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Upcoming Article  in International Artist on Black and White
for-us 08 مايو 2020
The new issue of International Artist magazine has an article on basic painting in black and white, based on my new Gumroad video . 
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Art Battle Manchester
for-us 07 مايو 2020
Art Battle Manchester was a performance event in Manchester, England, where a group of artists competed in an event where they produce a pai...
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Short film about out-of-date visual effects
for-us 06 مايو 2020
In an affectionate tribute to the history of visual effects, filmmaker Michael Shanks ( Link to YouTube ) imagines a stop-motion skeleton mo...
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Painting Rapids in a Mountain Stream
for-us 05 مايو 2020
I've got the mask and I'm social distancing, so why not head into the wilderness and paint a mountain stream? New 7-minute YouTube v...
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Painting with a Warm vs. Cool Palette
for-us 04 مايو 2020
By using just two colors of gouache ( ultramarine blue and burnt sienna ) along with white , you've got everything you need for creatin...
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Basic Watercolor Kit
for-us 03 مايو 2020
My most basic portable kit is just three tubes of gouache: Titanium white, ultramarine blue, yellow ochre, and light red.  Those colors can ...
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Dinosaur Descendants
for-us 03 مايو 2020
"A new study comparing the genomes of birds suggests that, genetically speaking, the turkey and the chicken is closer to its dinosaur a...
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