Category: Tools and Techniques
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Golden Virtual Paint Mixer
Golden Artist Colors, the well known manufacturer of artists’ acrylic paints and related materials, has posted an interactive Virtual Paint Mixer on their website. The module allows you to choose from their range of colors and assign three tube colors to the mixing tubes on the right (by dragging or selecting and clicking) and then…
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Constable’s oil sketches
The brilliant English landscape painter John Constable, along with his contemporary J.M.W. Turner, are sometimes viewed as precursors to French Impressionism, and, by extension, the generations of modern painting that followed. I think it’s even more interesting to consider the line from Constable through the outdoor paintings of Eugene Boudin, the Barbizon school, the Impressionists…
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Artist studios in 360°, Bradford Bohonus
I have an ongoing fascination with artists’ studios. I suppose it’s partly curiosity, partly looking for usable ideas and partly, I must admit, looking for confirmation that I’m not the only one whose working space is crammed wall to wall and floor to ceiling with drawing boards, easels, palettes, jars, tubes, racks, frames, shelves, boxes,…
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Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012
Solid and invaluable advice for artists or any kind, and at any stage in their life and career — but particularly when starting out, given by writer Neil Gaiman at this year’s commencement address to the graduating class of the University of the Arts here in Philadelphia. Excellent. [Via MetaFilter]
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Pochade boxes (update 2012)
Some plein air painters are hardy and dedicated enough to paint outdoors all year round. Others, like your humble author, are more inclined to wait until spring to emerge from the cocoon of a heated studio, brushes in hand, blinking in the glare of an unfamiliar sun. In either case, for most of us, the…
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The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies
Bittersweet nostalgia; and/or my attic and basement… [Via Dave Gibbons]