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“The practices that are now called painting and drawing are entirely different that what they were in past centuries. Painting has died – its central techniques have been lost- four times in the...
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EXCERPT TAKEN FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST, ROSS BLECKNER Do you work on one project at a time or several? I usually start a group of paintings in case I get bored of ne or I exhaust my interest in...
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CHARCOAL ” Take a nice,dry, willow stick; and make some little slips of it the length of the palm of your hand, or, say, four fingers. Then divide these pieces like match sticks; and do them up like...
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PLANAR AND SPATIAL ( thoughts about media continued) Is what I need to say and the way I need to express it something that requires a surface to support it, hold it in place: a plane , a wall, or a...
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Media are things that transform thought into action. All things when moved from the domain of thought to the physical domain exist in time, place, substance, and movement. Every medium therefore...
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MEDIA IN THE SERVICE OF EXPRESSION (CONT.) We could take another trite and overused material- feathers , for example-and retrieve their potential as transformative devices. Think of the Native...
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taken from the book, Why Art Cannot Be Taught – A Handbook for Art Students by James Elkins: “We retain the Romantic re-invention of the “master class”. In order to foster individuality and freedom (...
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“Remember when you were three or four years old and you would just scribble or smear paint around for the fun of it? At this time in your life, you were totally absorbed in the creative process, and...
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Style, the Bridge from Theory to Practice Some things you can do something about and others you can’t. For example, you can’t change when and where you were born. Whether he/she wants to or not,...
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Good Morning ! It’s 6 AM on a Saturday…. a beautiful light rain is falling…. my garden is loving it! This afternoon I will be teaching an IPAD tutorial to a few willing individuals. This seems like a...
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ACTION PAINTING Action painting is just what the name suggests: painting with pure abandon, dripping and spilling colors all over the place with no particular idea or plan in mind In the 1950″s ,...
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28 August 1985 The Abstract Expressionists were amazed at the pictorial quality of their productions, the wonderful world that opens up when you just paint. And in the evolution that led to Tachism,...
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Remember Talent? Does It Still Matter in Art Education? – The Chronicle...
Remember Talent? Does It Still Matter in Art Education? – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Here is a second great article sent to me by my friend and fellow professor at...
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Q: Now I hardly like to ask what significance painting can stil have, in relation to that responsibility of grasping reality. A: It’s hard to say whether – as people do sometimes assume – painting in...
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Begin by painting your shadows light. Guard against bringing white into them; it is the poison of the picture, except in the lights. Once white has dulled the transparency and golden warmth of your...
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The other day this phrase passed through my brain. ” I’m a happy idiot” Huh? What? Well, it occurred to me after doing what is most probably the 100 th demonstration on how to mix all the colors on a...
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So, in my efforts to explore something different….. change my technique, my style, explore other motifs and ideas, different colors, and different media, a question came to my mind. OK….. I definitely...
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When I went to college and majored in Art I never thought that I would be a teacher. That would have meant talking in front of people and , oh my God, I could never have done that! When I went to Grad...
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Gilt Complex The one color the alchemists could not conjure up for painters was the one they labored the hardest to devise. Struck by slanting rays of the sun, gold set the medieval altarpiece ablaze...
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I bought a new sketchbook a few months ago. It’s a larger format than I usually use so I decided I would divide each page into small squares. It’s been an interesting process…. depending on the size...
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