Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Tools and Techniques

  • Wilmington, Delaware gets an art store!

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    I’m happy to report that Jerry’s Artarama, an art supplier familiar to many from their online presence and a chain of retail stores across the U.S., has opened a store in Wilmington, Delaware. And why, you ask, should this be of interest to the wider national and international audience of Lines and Colors? Well, it’s…

  • Karen X. Cheng learns to dance (and be a designer)

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    What does learning to dance in a year have to do with learning to draw or paint? A lot, I think. From Jason Kottke’s blog, I was introduced to this time compressed video of Karen Cheng learning to dance over the course of a year. She made the decision it was what she wanted to…

  • The joys of a limited “three primary” palette

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    I was struck yesterday by a post on the blog of Jeffery Hayes about his experimentation with the limited palette recommended by Mark Carder in his method of learning to paint. Hayes is a still life painter who uses a wide palette of up to 70 paints, and produces quite beautiful results from his choices.…

  • Art Model Tips

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    In my years of drawing from the model in life drawing sessions, as a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts through additional classes at the Delaware Art Museum School, the Fleischer Art Memorial, the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Plastic Club, the Delaware College of Art and Design and other venues, I’ve learned…

  • Draw Mix Paint

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    Mark Carder, the well regarded painter and portraitist who I profiled in a previous post, at one point participated in and lent his name to a series of instructional painting videos known as “The Carder Method”. These sold for over $100, and were for a time heavily promoted. Carder is no longer associated with the…

  • Vasari Classic Artists’ Oil Colors

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    Most artists who work in oils recognize three general grades of oil paints. For lack of better terms, they can be called student grade, artist grade and premium grade. There are numerous levels of variation within those categories, of course, but they will do as a generalization. In student grade paints, the price is kept…