Category: Tools and Techniques
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Eye Candy for Today: unfinished Paul Sandby oil sketch
An Unfinished View of the West Gate, Canterbury; Paul Sandby Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art. Here Paul Sandby, primarily known as a watercolorist, has started a landscape sketch in oil on paper. He’s laid in…
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Daily Painting, Carol Marine
I’ve been following the “daily painting” phenomenon since 2005, when I wrote about a blog called A Painting a Day by Virginia painter Duane Keiser. Keiser had committed himself to painting one small painting each day and posting it to his blog. I commented at the time that I thought this was a terrific idea,…
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How It’s Made — Oil Paints
Someone has posted to YouTube a short (four minute) segment from the Discovery Channel about how commercial oil paints are formulated and manufactured. I don’t know how old this video is — it looks like it’s from a while back — still interesting, though. It should be noted that this is about a large art…
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Colley Whisson YouTube demo videos
Well known Australian painter Colley Whisson, who I wrote about in 2011, has for some time been posting short demo videos of his painting process on YouTube. These are quite short, roughly 3-4 minutes, and each briefly cover the process of a particular small painting. The videos are not professionally produced, and the audio, in…
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New Draw Mix Paint painting instruction course
As I reported in 2013, well regarded painter Mark Carder, who some years ago created a specific instruction method for those learning to paint, had put much of his former course into a series of new videos and made them freely available on his site Draw Mix Paint. Carder has recently taken those videos, added…
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Bright Light Fine Art / Artists Guild Library
Bright Light Fine Art is a collaborative art instruction site featuring three well-known contemporary painters: David Leffel, Sherrie McGraw and Jacqueline Kamin (links to my posts). The site has bios and sample galleries by each artist, listings of workshops and other news, and a store for books by Leffel and McGraw. The essence of the…