فبراير 2022

1. Painters look at nature. 2. People look at paintings that look at nature. 3. Guards look at people who look at paintings that look at nat...

Orling Dominguez of the Dominican Republic asks: "You have an interesting mixed media approach, open to any tool or technique you can c...

Over the two hour period of this painting, the scene rapidly changed from minute to minute. As soon as I had the shapes established, I had t...

If you are an overnight guest in Chandara's Imperial Palace, you're greeted by a dream tender, a mysterious courtier dressed to matc...

Roofline in the Catskills, watercolor and colored pencils. "Anything that excites me for any reason, I will [sketch]; not searching for...

A monstrous transformation is at the heart of one of Lucius Shepard's short stories in "The Ends of the Earth," published in F...

 The design of any plant has to respond to four main physical constraints:  1) Plants have to capture sunlight and avoid shading their own l...

Iceboat MaryEllen, gouache. The 50/50 isopropyl/water dilution stayed liquid at 15° F/-12°C, but caused some sedimentation in foreground, wh...

Many erasers leave an oily residue, which can result in paint chipping from its backing surface. Note how the gouache paint on this Coby Whi...

Gouache presents at least five difficulties: it freezes, it dries fast, it reactivates, it looks chalky, and it shifts values when it dries....

Tomorrow, Feb. 18, at noon EST on YouTube, I'll do a 1-hour demo with gouache and answer your questions about it. Here's the link.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by James Gurney (@jamesgurneyart) I'll be launching a YouTube premiere this Fri...

Just published: a free online article in Artists Network about my approach to imaginative painting. The key is to "fill the bucket...

Alphonse Mucha, Portrait of Madame Deschamps, 1903, pencil & white chalk on tan paper Alphonse Mucha said: "The purpose of my work ...

We bestow our visual attention very selectively, and that hierarchy of awareness is called the attentional (or foveal) spotlight. It's l...

At various stages in his career, Jamie Wyeth has turned to gouache instead of oil, and he has painted on non-archival surfaces such as corru...

Light pillars are optical phenomena where artificial lights appear to form vertical shafts above each source of light.  They're caused b...

Josep Puigdengolas Barella (1906-1987) was a Spanish/Catalonian landscape painter with some interesting ideas about skies. A channel of blu...

For sunbeams to appear in a forest, you need 1) a high, dense canopy punctured by a few openings, 2) air filled with dust, vapor, or smoke, ...

New issue of Artists Magazine takes a look at imaginative realism. View this post on Instagram A post shared by James G...

  علاج الحبوب بالثوم جميل انه يا سيدتي علم جديد حلقه جديده من قبل الطبيب ثانوي القسم الثاني مريض معكم و معهم ومع انه يقول نبيل ما وصلنا لهذا...

  علاج حب الشباب بالليمون في 5 دقائق ( معالجة حب الشباب للبشرة الدهنية ) التخلص من حب الشباب واثاره علاج فعال للعديد من مشاكل البشره بسبب اح...

  عيش الكريب بدون بيض بدون حليب بدون خلاط زى بتاع المحلات وأحسن عليهم نصف معلقه صغيره من الملح.  فهو نوع متعدد الاغراض.  بيسبول.  اول حاجه ا...

دموع محمد صلاح تنهمر امام احتفالات ماني بالقرب من طريق يقدم لحظات من السحر  في العالم الحظ عاند الرائع ابو جبل ودموع محمد صلاح تنهمر امام اح...

شبت أو عين الجرادة وطرق زراعتة من بذرة حتى جمع المحصول   كل ماتريد معرفتة عن زراعة نبات وتسميد وري والامراض وفوائدة  نبات الشبت من العائله ا...

  I wanted to show the misty atmosphere of the setting without a full rectangular shaped composition, so I used a "torn paper vignette,...

Evgenii (or Yevgeny) Rachev (1906-1997) was an illustrator best known for his images of animal fables from Russian folk tales. Postcards bas...