Watch Me Paint: World-Class Art, World-Class Instruction
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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Math is the language that describes every function in our bodies, our planet and our universe. There’s no reason for an artist to be afraid of it.
There’s a fine line between sincerely-held opinions and mawkishness. We should have beliefs, but nobody can survive on a steady diet of drama. We all need humor, too.
There is no such thing as absolute realism in painting. Every style, even the most detailed, is a simplification and abstraction of reality.
The experiences where faith, beauty and practice intersect are very rare. I doubt I’ve had more than half a dozen of them in my career.
I don’t do anything well when I’m hot, tired, up against a deadline and thirsty. That means photographing paintings calmly and while there’s still gas in my tank.
Did I ever tell you about my brief career as an aerobics instructor? Turns out teaching an art class was a much better fit.
Clouds are not are flat little cutouts, and rendering them like that marks a painting as amateurish.
What painters have influenced you? Who did I miss on my list? Who would you have never included? And why?
The sun is shining and the soft ocean breezes are blowing, but too many of us are in our air-conditioned rooms experiencing life vicariously.