Category: Tools and Techniques
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Online art supply as a resource for pigment information
This is not a review or endorsement of any online art supplier; I think all of the well known ones are probably fine, and each has their plusses and minuses. This is about a resource that a particular art supplier, Dick Blick, offers as part of their online catalog. When browsing for paints — whether…
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More artists’ studios
Like many artists, I enjoy seeing how other artists arrange and use their studios and work spaces. This is partly out of curiosity and partly with an eye to possibly useful ideas. Here are a couple more sources for photos of artists’ studios, in this case mostly illustrators, concept artists and comics artists. One is…
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Patrick Connors
Philadelphia based artist Patrick Connors Studied at the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. To my eye, the influence of the legacy Thomas Eakins left to the Academy — and to the city of Philadelphia — is visible in Connors’ similar fascination with the the play of light on the…
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ColourLex
Back in 2012, I wrote about a website called Pigments through the Ages; a resource about the history and nature of artist’s pigments. That site is 10 years old now, and as far as I know, is no longer being actively developed. However, one of the original authors of that site, Juraj Lipscher, has created…
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Gouache in the Wild, James Gurney
Unfairly overlooked among artists’ mediums, gouache is the neglected stepchild of watercolor — disdained by transparent watercolor purists (who I can’t help but picture as cartoon aristocrats, painting with their pinkie fingers extended), and looked at in confusion by oil and acrylic painters. (“Gouache? Isn’t that for designers? You know — illustrators?“) For those who…
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David Kassan (update)
Despite having previously written about him in 2008 and again in 2010, I still struggled a bit in trying to describe David Kassan’s approach to his portrait and figurative work. He certainly doesn’t flatter his subject, but neither does his deliberately seek out the grotesque (as, say, Lucian Freud). Words like “honest” or “direct” don’t…