Monday Morning Art School: mixing beautiful greens
The rookie error for summer is to paint all foliage using the same basic color. You lose more points if it’s sap green. Bracken Fern, by Carol L. Douglas, 9X12, oil on canvasboard, $869. I’m in Malta, so I don’t know if this is timely or not, but we’re about due for the earliest color …
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Neolithic art, made by artists like me
I feel a great kinship with the unknown craftsmen who made this neolithic art 5000 years ago. They were artists just like you and me.
Our place in space
Photos never capture our place in space. That’s a multisensory experience, coming from our balance, our eyesight, our hearing, and of course our binocular vision. Even the breeze plays a part.
Monday Morning Art School: how to choose the right art supplies
Buying more art supplies can be fun, or it can be a form of flailing around. It can be displacement behavior; it’s easier than buckling down.
The color of place
There’s a difference between landscape painting for finish and effect and plein air painting for exploration and thought.