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  • Richard Schmid

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    Richard Schmid, though a well known and well respected contemporary American painter, is perhaps even better known as a teacher, through his widely read book and, more recently, series of instructional videos. His web site doesn’t do much to change this, in that the images of his work, though presented well enough, are frustratingly small.…

  • Pochade Boxes

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    This post was updated May 10, 2018. Though the practice by individuals can be traced back further, painting en plein air, meaning in the plain air or simply painting out of doors, was first practiced in significant numbers by artists in the Forest of Fontainbleau in the mid 19th Century. Around that time, the advent…

  • PJ Lynch

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    PJ Lynch is an Irish illustrator currently living in Dublin. His award winning illustrations have appeared in numerous books, illustrating both modern stories and new versions of classics. Lynch has also been commissioned to design posters for Opera Ireland and the Abbey Theatre, created murals for the Cavan County Library based on Gulliver’s Travels and…

  • More Photoshop Tutorials

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    I wrote back in February about a listing of 100 Photoshop Tutorials, many of which applied to digital painting. Here are some more Photoshop tutorial resources I’ve come across. Though fewer of them are directly related to digital painting, they may be of interest to digital artists as well as those involved in design and…

  • History of the Color Wheel

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    It’s been the subject of much discussion, some suggesting that it is misleading enough that it should be rethought entirely, but the color wheel remains the most common and convenient method for visually understanding and comparing the relationships of different hues. As part of the Gutenberg-e project by the American Historical Association and Columbia University…

  • Build Your Own Easel (Ben Grosser)

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    Ben Grosser is an artist and composer who also directs the Imaging Technology Group at the Beckman Institute. As a painter, Grosser paints large scale non-represenational works. After being frustrated early in his painting career by the cost of large easels that would accommodate his desire to paint large canvasses, he decided to build his…