يناير 2021

The sculptures of Hagop Sandaldjian are so tiny that they can't be fully appreciated with the naked eye. You need a magnifying glass to ...

Hydrographics  is a method of printing in which an object with a complex shape is dipped through a thin film of pigment floating on a tank o...

Art student Alexandra V. asks: " What does your work aim to say? (About the world or your life)" Alexandra, when you ask about wha...

Are you the adventurous type?  Voices in the Wilderness  is an unique artist-in-residence program where intrepid artists can explore the wil...

Illustrator Saul Tepper (New York City, 1899-1987) hunted throughout the city for amateur models to pose for his illustrations. One time, a...

A few days ago, in a previous post , I shared some of the preliminary sketches for the establishing shots of Waterfall City (below). Water...

  The Colosseum in Rome by Josephus Augustus Knip, 1809, watercolor, 425mm × w 597mm   Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum Museum  has made its coll...

A question came about my recent YouTube video  which talked about the mindset that I try to cultivate while painting. M C  asks: "How d...

One of the paintings that President Biden chose for the Oval Office is a portrait of Benjamin Franklin by  Joseph Siffred Duplessis .  Frank...

John Singer Sargent did a pencil study (right) of a group portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and his Family by Joshua Reynolds (left).  Sar...

These charcoal-on-vellum line drawings are half the size of the final painting of Waterfall City .  This is the step where I figure out pers...

The term civil twilight refers to the period between the time when the sun goes down and when the natural illumination is so dim that artif...

Here's a great exercise to try: paint a snow scene with just ultramarine blue and burnt sienna, plus white gouache.  ( Link to YouTube v...

Robert McGinnis (born 1926) painted glamorous women and gun-toting spies for paperback covers and movie posters.   This video by producer Pa...

 The original painting for Waterfall City went through a lot of planning stages.  I started with a lot of thumbnail sketches, trying to lass...

To get a healing break from the images of chaos and violence in public spaces, I've been trying to take a minute to focus on the beauty ...

Neural networks are able to generate plausible images by starting with a descriptive phrase written in natural language and then mining a la...

Victorian watercolor painter William Fraser Garden (1856-1921) grew up amid a large family of artists. He painted carefully observed views a...