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  • Renato Muccillo

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    The first thing that struck me about the paintings of Canadian artist Renato Muccillo was his wonderfully subtle sense of value, as well as the range of expression he achieves with an understated use of color. Though some of his compositions are dramatically lit, with dynamic cloud formations portrayed in a full range of values,…

  • My Articles for Answers.com

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    I was asked to be the Answers.com “Category Expert Writer” for a period of several months in 2013-2014, writing articles for the category of Painting: http://painting.answers.com These were my contributions. February 2014 An Introduction to Plein Air Painting Beautiful Highlights from the History of Landscape Painting Make Painting Easier by Using the Sight-size Method Vincent…

  • Picturing Autumn on Tor.com

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    Here in the northern hemisphere, today is the first day of Autumn, AKA the Autumnal Equinox (and of course it’s the beginning of Spring down under, where they do everything upside backwards). An equinox is a point in the Earth’s orbit in which the tilted axis of our planet’s rotation is neither toward or away…

  • Nelson Shanks (update)

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    I had the pleasure on Wednesday night of attending a figure painting demonstration by Nelson Shanks at Studio Incamminati here in Philadelphia. Shanks is a well known and highly regarded American artist and teacher, known in particular for his portraits of iconic contemporary figures. His work has been exhibited in numerous museums and prestigious galleries,…

  • Allpaintings Art Portal

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    One of the best things about the internet is its exponential rate of growth. If there’s something you can’t find today, wait a few years (or months, or days) and it just may pop up. “All things”, to paraphrase the zen-like passage from the Bible, “come to he who waits.” When I started writing Lines…

  • American Impressionism from the Phillips Collection

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    Those who have been reading Lines and Colors for a while will know that I have a particular fondness for many of the late 19th, early 20th Century painters referred to as “American Impressionists”. (I put the phrase in quotes because I doubt the painters ever referred to themselves in those terms.) The Phillips Collection…