يوليو 2021

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I sketch this guy at a square dance. Some call him Smiley and some call him Tex.  I ask if he's from Texas. "No sir, I'm from L...

One of the mysteries of visual perception is how the information all binds together into a singular experience after raw sensory data is dec...

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Gold bust of Almestra, a Chandaran queen who married a king of Poseidos. Oil wash over pencil on illustration board. -- From Dinotopia: The ...

A friend of mine who teaches art history asked for my view on this question: "How and when did the "Golden Age of Illustration...

A couple weeks ago I shared the results of some text-to-image experiments .  Code wizards have been using machine-learning tools such as VQG...

With only a few minutes to paint a man in a diner, I have to decide which tool to start with tool to start with, a pencil or a brush? In th...

Hi, I'm gathering recorded questions to answer in a future YouTube video about Painting or Drawing on Location.   The widget above lets ...

Reflections in shallow water follow definite laws. Look first for the edges of dark forms against the sky. These strong contrasts break up i...

William Trost Richards, Rocky Coastline, gouache, 1878, 29½ by 43¼ In this large gouache painting by Trost Richards, the sun is centered in ...

The Bootleg Fire in Oregon has spawned tornadoes and has generated plumes of smoke that rise to the altitude of jet aircraft flightpaths.  I...

Harbor Fog, oil on board, 8 × 10 in. The water in this Maine harbor is glassy smooth, just one tone darker than the sky. Everything is gray...

Stop and think for a second before you place a stroke. Consider how the stroke is going to look before you lay it down. Then commit to it. D...

Here's a drawing of a belt-driven drill press, drawn in pencil and gray wash. Gray wash is watered-down ivory black watercolor, carried ...

Experts at the Victoria and Albert Museum have reconstructed the methods used by William Morris to print his wallpaper.  William Morris, Wal...

Ernest Watson wrote many instructional books and was an advocate of pencil sketching. I didn't realize it, but he also produced instruct...

Dinotopia came to life in a library — the Vassar Library in particular — where I spent many hours researching obscure diaries of 19th centur...

Constance Wibaut (1920-2014) was a fashion illustrator from Holland who reported from Paris in the 1960s on the new styles by Pierre Cardin ...

José Jiménez Aranda painted these three young women picking flowers. He captures a moment where the near girl appears to be saying something...