Category: Painting
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Project Gutenberg eBooks, Masters of Water-colour Painting
It’s nice to start the new year by looking forward, but it can be just as instructive to look back; and there are some great resources that make looking back easier and more fruitful than ever. Project Gutenberg is a great idea. Not just in the sense of “great” as “terrific”, but in the sense…
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Journey to Chandara
I recently did an update on James Gurney, and I don’t normally do two posts about the same artist in such quick succession, but I finally had a chance to spend some time enjoying my new copy of his latest book, Journey to Chandara, and I was just knocked out. Journey to Chandara (more detail…
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How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web
In the thirteen years I’ve been on the web, twelve of which I’ve spent doing professional web site design, and the last two of which have sent me to hundreds of artists’ web sites, I’ve come to the inevitable conclusion that the thing artists want most when placing their art on the web is for…
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Suncage (Jon Hall)
I will be the first to admit that, when it comes to painting “en plein air” (outdoors), I am a fair weather painter. Days when it’s even mildly chilly find me sitting cozily in font of a computer monitor, or the in the comfort of a heated studio indulging in the convenience of photographic reference.…
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Portraits of Sandra Day O’Connor
For many years I have been going, on and off, to open figure drawing and painting sessions here in Phliadelphia at either the Philadelphia Sketch Club or the Plastic Club, two of the country’s oldest arts organizations. These are not classes, per se, with a set course of instruction, but simply sessions where artists jointly…
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Jared Shear
Jared Shear is a painter with several blogs. One is called Terra Peer, meaning “World View”, and is devoted to his view of the world as expressed in small, immediate landscape paintings and studies. He would probably prefer that I had chosen a more fully realized small painting to represent his work, rather than the…