Michelangelo’s Drawings: The Conceptual Transformation from Touch to Sight
Icarus Landing: Incorporating and Transcending Two Major Traditions in Western Civilization
The Sky Problem in Landscape Painting
Newberry Art Tutorials The Problem: A Bright Sky In real life the daylight sky is bright, much brighter than the landscape's trees, vegetation, mountains, and water. Think of it as a large lamp. But when you paint a landscape truthfully the effect backfires, the sky will be bright but the earth part will be dull …
Secularization of Hell: The Illusionists, Curated by Michael Pearce at Studio Channel Islands with TRAC2019
What is the point of trying to overthrow one bad aesthetic movement if you are going to replace it with another?
Towards Puccini
They say that art is the technology of the soul. The best of it integrates sensory experience, appeals to our thinking, an internal logic, our imagination, and taps our emotions. When those things come together it triggers our circuits to fire on all frequencies.
Damn Complex Chaos to Visual Language
Eye Excitement: Why Ruins?
If you are an artist looking for something interesting to draw look for differences in everything. That will keep your eye busy and excited and the viewers' too.
Mark Making Movement in Pastel
Rend
Newberry, "Not to Be Answered", charcoal on Rives BFK, 19x13 inches. Death touched my life when three people near me, in the same year, died. The horrible result was that I felt nothing. One of them was a Dutch woman I didn’t know very well, but we were related in a sense. I knew she …
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