Year: 2010
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Steve Hanks
Steve Hanks is a well known watercolor artist whose subject matter frequently focuses on female figures in interiors or landscapes. His subjects’ ages vary, from babies to women, as do their situations; some are nude studies, some evocative of mother and child tenderness, others children at play or women languidly posed on couches or beds.…
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Compositional / Visual Clarity with Bill Perkins
Compositional / Visual Clarity with Bill Perkins is a one day workshop scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday September 19, 2010, at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra California. Th workshop will focus on the role of composition in achieving visual clarity in storytelling. That may sound dry, but the real goal is more exciting images; clarity is a…
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ArtRage 3 Studio Pro
An increasing number of artists, even those firmly committed to working in traditional media, are discovering the value of adding digital painting and drawing tools to their repertoire. The transition can be daunting, though, with some artists feeling intimidated by what they perceive as complex and expensive digital art tools and the implied learning curve.…
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Themistocles von Eckenbrecher
Karl Paul Themistocles von Eckenbrecher (sometimes spelled Themistokles) was a German landscape and marine artist active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. Born to a German Father and Italian mother while they were traveling in Athens, he he was largely schooled by private tutors as they traveled and moved often. The family eventually…
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Al Williamson Archives
It’s a fairly common practice among comics artists to publish “sketchbooks”, sometimes literally that, sometimes collections of more finished drawings. In them we can often see the artist at play, doing preliminary sketches for art from stories with which we’re familiar, indulging in imaginative flights of fancy, doodling, practicing and learning. Rarely do we get…
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The Hell Creek Mural
Every field of artistic endeavor has its own limitations, but it’s often within those limitations, rather than in spite of them, that artists do their best work. In gallery art, artists who wish to survive on the sale of their art must produce work that finds an appreciative audience of buyers, and must often please…