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Tutorial
Fatal Flaw: Showing Light Source

January '12

Tutorial
Look for What is Alive

January '12



Tutorial
5-Minute Palette Clean Up

December '11



Tutorial
Artists Writing: Don't Start with I

December '11

Tutorial
Pastel 1
Getting Started

October '11

 

Tutorial
Zoom!

February '10

Tutorial
The Rib Cage

August  '10

 

Tutorial
Charcoal Drawing Part 1

April '10

Tutorial
The Eye

March '10

 

Tutorial
The Color of Light and Shadow

October '09

 

Tutorial
Glazing Part 1

June  '09



Tutorial
Imagination

March '09

Tutorial
Perception

November '08

 

Tutorial
Plein Air Painting,
Part 1

October '08


Tutorial
Plein Air Painting,
Part 2

October '08



Tutorial
Seek the Big Form, Study Sculpture

May '08

 

Tutorial
True Lies Warp Negative Space

January '08

Tutorial
Finishing Off Plein Air Paintings

October '07


Tutorial
Anatomy of Light

July  '07



Tutorial
3 Visual  Axioms You've Got It If You Get It

May '07

Tutorial
Feeling the Form

April '07

 

Tutorial
Innovation Series Polyclitus' Cannon of Proportions

March '07

 

Tutorial
Thumbnails The Key to the Big Picture

February '07

Tutorial
Abstraction in Representational Art

January '07

Tutorial
Details Don't Mean a Thing, If They Ain't Got That Swing

November '06

 

Tutorial
Ellipses Don't Start a Still-life Without 'Em

August  '06

Tutorial
Spatial Depth Part 2, Color

July  '06



 

Tutorial
The Conceptual Transformation from Touch to Sight

July  '06



Tutorial
Composition in One Easy Lesson

June  '06

Tutorial
Pastel on Dark Paper - Just Add Light.

May '06

 

 

Tutorial
Spatial Depth  Part 1, Black/White 

May '06


 

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Time-Lapse
 

Time-Lapse
The Eye

54 sec

November '11

 

Time-Lapse
Basic Anatomy

1:09 min

January '11

Time-Lapse
Venus

1:12 min

October '07

Time-Lapse
Artemis

50 sec

October '06

 

Video
 

Video
Color Theory and Current Work 13:34

December '11



 

Video
Gesture Drawing

1 min

May '11

 

Video
Spot on Michael Newberry

45 sec

September '09

Video
The Making of Artemis
11:38

June  '08

Video
Manifesto
10:43

March '07

   

Reviews
 

Review
William Wray Plotting Life's Light

August  '08

 

Review
Embarking with Timur Akhriev

September '08

Review
Jacob Collins The Sensuous Nature of Light

June  '08

Review
Jeff Larson's Radical Perceptions

June  '08



 

Review
Schipperheyn's Thus Spoke Zarathustra

April '08

Presentations

Presentation
The Making of Venus

April '08

 

 

Presentation
The Making of Denouement

March '07

 

Presentation
Metaphysical Value Judgments in Painting

October '02

   

Art Criticism

Art Criticism
Terrorism and Postmodern Art

Revised September '07


 

Art Criticism
Blarney at the Guggenheim

Revised June  '07


Art Criticism
A Victim's Vindication?

Revised June  '07

Art Criticism
Pandora's Box
Part 1

Revised November '06

Art Criticism
Pandora's Box
Part 2

Revised December '06
 

Art Criticism
Pandora's Box
Part 3

Revised December '06
 

 

 

 
   
   

 

The links below are under construction

 

2010

 

 

 

 

 

2009
 

 

Tutorial
Line Value, Use the Wall

November '09

 

 

Tutorial
Pastel Lift Off

September '09

 

Tutorial
The Art of Scumbling

April '09

 

 

2008
 

 
 

Tutorial
Plein Air Painting,
Part 1

October '08

 

Tutorial
Plein Air Painting,
Part 2

October '08

 

 

Tutorial
Finishing Details

March '08

 

2007
 

 
 

Tutorial
Photographing Your Art No Glare

October '07

 

Tutorial
Grisaille Underpainting There Are Grays and Then There Are Grays

September '07

Tutorial
Innovation Series
Light, Part 1

September '07

 

 

 

 

 

Tutorial
Exaltation in Art Pleasing the Voices in Your Head

March '07

 

 
 

 

Tutorial
Cast Shadows

January '07

Tutorial
Preparatory Drawings for a Figurative Work

January '07

 

2006
 

 

Tutorial
Being an Artist Approach Art Like a Child

December '06

 

Tutorial
Using Triangulation of Points to Line Up the Figure

December '06

 

Presentation
Influences in Artemis

October '06

 

Tutorial
Lights and Darks in 3's

September '06

Tutorial
Erotic Symbolism in
Visual
Art

September '06

 

Tutorial
Integration, Part 2 Color

September '06

 

 

 

Tutorial
Integration, Part 1 Light

 

July  '06

 

 

Tutorial
Rembrandt Master of Eye Movement

June  '06

 

 

Tutorial
Rhythm
A Beautiful Way to Organize Chaos.            

May '06

 

Tutorial                  
Triangulation of Light
and Dark
in the Still-life.

April '06

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Art Criticism
Paul McCarthy Romantic Nihilism

September '09

 

 

Art Criticism
Terrorism and Postmodern Art, 2008 Update

November '08

 

Art Criticism Post-Postmodern Art by Philosopher Stephen R. C. Hicks

September '07

 

 

 

Art Criticism
Terrorism and Postmodern Art

Revised September '07

 

 

Presentation
Making of Venus

April '08

 

 

Art Criticism
Innovation, Substance, Vision - The Future of Art

April '08

 

 

 

Art Criticism
New Mediums for Postmodern  Expression

Revised June  '07

Art Criticism
One Comment and One Question...

November '07

Art Criticism
No Comment but One Question...

September '07

 

 

 

An Artist's Voice
Rend

 

January '07

Museum of Contemporary Art Reviews
A Victim's Vindication?

Revised June  '07