Category: Tools and Techniques
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How to Ship Paintings on red dot blog
Jason Horejs is the owner of Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. In addition to running the gallery, Horejs provides art marketing advice from the point of view of a gallery owner — some of it dispensed freely through his red dot blog (named, if you didn’t catch it, for the small red dots that traditionally…
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The Tools Artists Use
The Tools Artists Use is a blog maintained by Bill Turner in which he poses a set of questions (the same set) to a number of artists — asking about their choice of drawing and painting tools, both traditional and digital, as well as supports, sketchbooks and the like. The questions and replies are posted…
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Figure & Gesture Drawing Tool
Though figure drawing classes and open studio sessions are frequently available at art schools and artist organizations in larger metropolitan areas (see my post on the Directory of Figure Drawing Sessions), it’s not always easy or convenient to find a class nearby. In 2007 I wrote an article about online or on disc substitutes for…
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, 4th Edition
Like the 1930’s Hollywood cliché of the civilized explorers wowing the backward and worshipful natives with the “magic” of a cigarette lighter held aloft at a dramatic moment, there has long been an assignment of magic to the ability to draw and paint realistically in our culture. This comes from the notion that the ability…
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Patrick Faulwetter digital plein air painting
Long before the relatively recent advent of the iPad and the digital painting apps for it that have ushered in a new wave of “digital plein air painting”, some artists, myself included, were painting digitally from life using laptop computers and pressure sensitive tablets. Most of these artists had backgrounds in other types of digital…
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Jot Touch pressure sensitive stylus for iPad reviewed
Those of us who enjoy drawing and painting digitally, either with a pressure sensitive tablet and stylus on a desktop computer, or with a capacitive stylus on an iPad (sorry, Apple, fingerpainting is for kids), are often frustrated with the disconnect between the two. Most notable is the lack of pressure sensitivity on the iPad,…