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Category: Painting

  • The Virtual Paintout

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    Kentucky artist Bill Guffey has come up with a great idea for a Virtual Paintout, in which participants use Google Maps Street Views as the subjects for paintings in traditional media. Guffey actually talked with the Google Maps team and received their approval to the idea of creating paintings from Google Maps Street Views and…

  • Antony Bridge and Carl Melegari

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    I first came across Antony Bridge in the form of his time-lapse YouTube videos about pochade painting, when I was doing research on pochade boxes. In them you can see Antony painting at various locations in the English countryside and towns, using his small hand-held pochade box, as well as painting small self portraits. I…

  • Different Strokes from Different Folks Portrait Swap

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    I wrote previously about Karin Jurick’s Different Strokes from Different Folks cooperative painting blog, in which participants all paint their interpretation of a given photographic subject. In a fascinating variation for the Year End Challenge, participating painters were asked to submit a photograph of themselves from the shoulders up. These were then swapped, distributed out…

  • Jonathan Janson

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    Occasionally artists will become particularly fascinated with the work of one of their predecessors, and study the work of that artist in depth. Such is the case with Jonathan Janson, and artist originally from (if I’m not mistaken) Seattle, now living and working in Rome. Janson has a deep and abiding interest in the work…

  • Different Strokes from Different Folks (Karin Jurick)

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    In addition to her own painting and blogging regimen, the indefatigable Karin Jurick (who I have written about previously here, as well as in my posts on “painting a day” painter/bloggers here and here) has a new project in which she participates, guides and hosts a collaborative painting blog based on a simple but fascinating…

  • 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.…