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  • Sanguine Drawing

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    Most artists who have done much life drawing are familiar with sanguine, usually as a color of conté crayon or colored pencil. Not that many, however, have drawn with real sanquine. Sanguine (Hematite) is a red-brown iron-oxide chalk, usually mined in Italy. It’s color, particularly when used on cream paper with touches of white, makes…

  • Andy Paiko

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    Andy Paiko is a glass artist who creates glass sculpture as well as sculptural vesselware and traditional vesselware. I suppose “gothic” might be a term applied to his fascinating constructions of ornately crafted glass that often incorporate the skulls of small animals, spine-like constructions and other natural elements in ways that are slightly creepy but…

  • 100 Photoshop Tutorials

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    100 Photoshop Tutorials, subtitled “for creating beautiful art”, is a set of digital art how-to articles from numerous artists, collected and accessed through a large page of thumbnail images. Somewhat confusingly, though the majority of them seem to be for 2-D digital painting, the site on which they are hosted is called “3D Total“. The…

  • Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran

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    Charles Auguste Emile Durand, who apparently felt that he didn’t have enough hyphenations for a self-respecting French painter and adopted the name Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran, will probably always be better known as the influential teacher of John Singer Sargent than for his own work. Carolus-Duran studied at the Lille Academy and, after some time in…

  • Boris Kulikov

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    There has been some debate among artists and illustrators (some of it on the comments pages of certain posts here on lines and colors) about the wisdom of placing relatively large, non-watermarked images on the web, where they can ostensibly be “stolen” and used for some nefarious purpose. Those who have read my posts on…

  • Stefan Nuetzel

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    Stefan Nuetzel (or Nützel) is an German painter living and working working in Vienna (Wien), Austria. The galleries on his web site feature his paintings of a variety of subjects, including portraits, figures, interiors and landscapes. The interiors are a short series of art museum views, but there is also a fascinating series of interiors…