Monday Morning Art School: why follow the rules?
There is broad consensus on how paint is applied, even if you take your craft to places I’ve never dreamed of. The Race, by Tim Moran, watercolor on cold-press paper. If you’ve studied with me for any length of time, you know I’m big on protocol. “Do it this way now,” I urge my students. …
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The built environment
My personal instinct is anti-social, to look at nature rather than the man-made environment. But that’s a mistake. Pasturage, by Carol L. Douglas The Mohawk River forces a separation between the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains, making it one of the only natural passages across the Appalachians. This is the heartland of Linden Frederick’s Night Stories. …
Don’t be so quick to judge
If it’s not love at first sight, maybe it’s because you’re doing something right. Captain Linda Striping, oil on canvasboard, by Carol L. Douglas One of my old painting pals frequently scrubs out paintings that she feels are going wrong. “Look, I’ve saved a good board,” she’ll say. My surplus plein air paintings, if stacked …
Monday Morning Art School: ellipses with a recipe thrown in
Learn how to draw a pie plate, dish, cup, or vase. I’m throwing in my pie crust recipe, so you can learn to make a pie, too. When drawing round objects, we have to look for the ellipses, which are just elongated circles. Ellipses have a horizontal and a vertical axis, and they’re always symmetrical …
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Beautiful glimpses of the past
Today dories are an historical relic. When the Wyeths painted them, they were part of the saga of man and the sea. Deep Cove Lobster Man, c 1938, N.C. Wyeth, oil, courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Sometimes great emails get directed to my spam folder, particularly when they contain a dollar sign …