Category: Tools and Techniques
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Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop
Landscapes Through Time is a 13-part PBS series, produced several years ago, in which landscape painter David Dunlop goes on location to places were several notable landscape painters, mostly from the late 19th century, painted. Each episode is devoted primarily to an individual painter. In the half-hour episodes he talks about the painters, their methods,…
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My articles for Painting.Answers.com: Nov – Dec, 2013
I have continued to write a series of articles on painting for Answers.com as their Category Expert Writer for that subject. Most of them are roughly split between “how-to” articles on painting tools and techniques, and history-oriented articles on individual artists, art movements and particular paintings. You can see my most recent contributions at the…
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James Gurney's How I Paint Dinosaurs
Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that I’m an admirer of the work of illustrator and painter James Gurney. I also love dinosaurs and paleontological art, an area in which Gurney is one of the foremost artists working today, so I was delighted to receive a review copy of Gurney’s instructional DVD…
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My Articles on Painting for Answers.com
As an adjunct to their long-established model of direct questions and answers, Answers.com has launched a new “Category Expert Writer” program, in which writers with expertise in various areas contribute an ongoing series of short, informative articles in their field. (As far as I know, they are still expanding the program. The information on applying…
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My simple portable gouache kit
Lately, I’ve been painting on location in gouache, a wonderful and often overlooked medium (more on that in a later post). In the process, I’ve worked out an inexpensive and simple portable kit for carrying my supplies, that also makes an impromptu lap box for painting. It consists of two shallow (Rubbermaid style) food storage…
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The Unicorn Magical Drawing and Painting Horse
As I mentioned in my 2007 article on “The Drawing bench (horse)“, I’m fond of the arrangement provided by these usually simple benches that allow for a “sight-over” position when seated and drawing. I say “usually simple”, because I got a kick out of comment recently posted to the article on this amazingly deluxe variation,…