أغسطس 2021

The priming color is blue at the top and orange at the bottom, applied in a smooth gradient with a block printing brayer the day before.  T...

 ( Link to YouTube ) Painting voyage with Jeanette, Smooth, and son Frank in his 1966 Glastron speedboat. The goal was to sketch the moored ...

"I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free."  — Andrew Wyet...

Václav Brožík (b. 1851-1901) was a Czech painter who studied at the academy in Prague and Dresden, lived in Paris and became a teacher. Smr...

Audrey Munson was a favorite model of the sculptors of New York's Beaux-Arts era.  At the beginning of her career she went door to door ...

William Walcot, RA Perspective of County Hall under construction. c.1920. William Walcot (1874-1943) was an architect, etcher, and waterco...

Roger Bansemer , who has a painting and travel TV channel, paid me a visit. He put me on his TV show and now the show is on YouTube. ( Link ...

Victorian caricaturist  Phil May (1864-1903) described his method of building a drawing: "First of all I get the general idea, of which...

Eyes may resemble still cameras or movie cameras, but it's probably more accurate to regard them as very active extensions of the brain....

    --  Christopher L. Evans joins me and Jeanette to sketch Thomas Cole's old studio.  We talk about perspective and keeping brushes c...

  Baby goats frolic around us on the Kesicke Farm.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by James Gurney (@jamesgurne...

Anders Zorn, The Little Brewery, 1890 oil on canvas, 47.5 x 78cm The museum website says: "In this interior from a brewery, women wor...

Reference photo of Steve Holland In the 1970s and '80s, many paperback covers were painted with reference to black and white photographs...

Next month I'll be part of  Lightbox Expo  2021, a virtual gathering of artists sharing demos and insights. I'll be introducing a ne...

What if a monorail could be as big as an ocean liner?  The little yellow flight pod on the left carries passengers around the city.  A flock...

Solomon J. Solomon,  Mischa Elman Playing the Violin,  1911 Solomon Solomon painted the Mischa Elman (1891-1967) when the young violinist wa...

This isn't my usual way of drawing, but Mr. Wright had such an unusual way of presenting himself that I couldn't resist relaxing a b...

A replica of The Spirit of St. Louis comes in for a landing just past the tower at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome . Ken Cassens is at the contr...

  José Moreno Carbonero  (1858-1942) was a Spanish painter who brought moments of history to life with grandeur and pageantry.  Prince Don C...

Ride to Atlantis, oil on panel, 1989  The architecture on the seafloor is Minoan. The idea came from the proposal that a historic volcanic...

Unfinished portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence (English, 1769-1830) reveal insights into his painting methods.    "Lawrence always painte...