Category: Painting a Day
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Bob Eggleton
Regular readers of lines and colors know that I try to keep a nice mix of art and artists from across many genres of art. I find it particularly interesting when artists cross those boundaries themselves, and have a web presence that showcases more than one artistic path. Bob Eggleton is a well known fantasy…
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“Painting a Day” Blogs (Round 5)
I will often, if not always, try to mention Duane Keiser in my posts about Painting a Day blogs, because he started the idea back in December of 2004 (followed shortly by Julian Merrow-Smith). I originally posted about Keiser in October of 2005. Keiser is still at it; he has allowed himself to be more…
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Julian Merrow-Smith
You will often hear people say that artists, in particular the Impressionists and post-Impressionists like van Gogh and Gauguin, found the quality of the light particularly appealing in Provence, that area in the south of France that was the first province established by the Romans outside of Italy. I have to say that I was…
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Laurelines (Laura Frankstone)
All artists go through periods of difficulty, where the act of creation becomes more of a chore than a joy, or ideas dry up, or we reach those plateaus where progress seems to cease, or we are pressed with doubt or even fear about our abilities (or lack thereof). When this happens, the logical thing…
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“Painting a Day” Blogs (Round 4)
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post about the challenges and rewards of taking on the practice of doing “a painting a day”, the hardest thing about doing one small painting every day and then posting it to a blog is, of course, making the time. All of us are pulled in various directions and maintaining…
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“Painting a Day” Blogs (Round 3)
Our story thus far: in October of last year I wrote a post about Duane Keiser, a painter and teacher from Virginia who, in December of the year before (2004), had committed himself to the excellent but demanding practice of doing one small painting a day. Most of his daily paintings were about 5×7″, or…