Category: Painting
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My latest articles on painting for Answers.com
I’m continuing to write articles on painting for Painting.Answers.com, some on materials and techniques, some on painters and paintings from history. Here are my most recent articles, the first three of which use a new slideshow format. John Singer Sargent’s “Portrait of Madame X”: Masterpiece and Scandal Beautiful Highlights from the History of Watercolor Painting…
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James Gurney's How I Paint Dinosaurs
Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that I’m an admirer of the work of illustrator and painter James Gurney. I also love dinosaurs and paleontological art, an area in which Gurney is one of the foremost artists working today, so I was delighted to receive a review copy of Gurney’s instructional DVD…
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David Leffel
David A. Lefffel is highly regarded and influential contemporary painter of still life and figurative works. There is something about his still life paintings in particular that makes him one of my favorite contemporary artists. Leffel has an extraordinary sensitivity to edges, texture, color harmony and value relationships, that makes his still life subjects simultaneously…
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My simple portable gouache kit
Lately, I’ve been painting on location in gouache, a wonderful and often overlooked medium (more on that in a later post). In the process, I’ve worked out an inexpensive and simple portable kit for carrying my supplies, that also makes an impromptu lap box for painting. It consists of two shallow (Rubbermaid style) food storage…
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Wilmington, Delaware gets an art store!
I’m happy to report that Jerry’s Artarama, an art supplier familiar to many from their online presence and a chain of retail stores across the U.S., has opened a store in Wilmington, Delaware. And why, you ask, should this be of interest to the wider national and international audience of Lines and Colors? Well, it’s…
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Karen X. Cheng learns to dance (and be a designer)
What does learning to dance in a year have to do with learning to draw or paint? A lot, I think. From Jason Kottke’s blog, I was introduced to this time compressed video of Karen Cheng learning to dance over the course of a year. She made the decision it was what she wanted to…