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Category: Tools and Techniques

  • Pochade boxes (updated)

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    Even though the end of the summer is rapidly approaching for those of us who live in then northern hemisphere, the time for plein air painting is hardly over; and many, myself included, find this time of year ideal for painting outdoors. In 2008 I wrote a rather extensive article on pochade boxes, those combinations…

  • Wacom Inkling

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    Wacom is the venerable maker of pressure sensitive tablets and styli that have been the standard for digital artists for many years. My understanding is that the name is a combination of “wa”, from a Japanese word meaning harmony, and “com” from computer, meaning a device that puts one in harmony with a computer. They…

  • The Chemistry of Oil Painting on Symbiartic

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    Artist and illustrator Glenton Mellow, who writes the Flying Trilobite blog, also co-authors a new blog for Scientific American called Symbiartic, along with scientific illustrator Kalliopi Monoyios. The tagline for Symbiartic is “The art of science and the science of art”, and topics range freely across that nebulous and fascinating intersection. In a recent post…

  • PaintWorks eMagazine, Summer 2011

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    I was provided with a review copy of PaintWorks, a new eMagazine from Interweave, the parent company of American Artist and their corresponding website Artist Daily. The debut issue of PaintWorks is Summer 2011 and the theme of the issue is “The Essentials of Still Life Painting”. The eMagazine itself is an application, with a…

  • Figure Drawing for All it’s Worth, Andrew Loomis

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    When I was in my late teens, earnestly trying to learn the art and craft of comic book illustration, I stumbled across a find in the dusty shelves of a used bookstore that popped my eyes open and sent me home feeling like I had struck gold. It was a copy of Figure Drawing for…

  • Judsons Plein Air Journal

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    Judsons Art Outfitters is a company that manufactures and sells plein air painting supplies, including a popular line of pochade boxes (see my 2008 post on pochade boxes). Since 2008, they have been maintaining a blog on plein air artists both contemporary and historic, plein air techniques, plein air competitions and other events of interest…