From the Latin (via Italian) fumare (“to smoke”), sfumato describes a painting technique with no harsh outlines. Areas blend into one another through tiny brushstrokes, which makes a hazy, atmospheric depiction of light and color. An early example of sfumato can be seen in Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. A more modern example is in Y.Z. Kami’s giant meditative portraits.
Pronunciation: sfoo·mah·toe
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Xandy Peters : Sfumato
Brooklyn-based industrial designer Xandy Peters fools around with a scanner and some fluff. She produces some wonderful sfumato portraits.
Welcome to day 4 of our 30 Day Creative Challenge! This is a composition day in our 30 Day Challenge. Here’s an exercise that improves your compositions, without you even thinking about composition. It worked for Diebenkorn! The primary challenge is to respond to the creative prompts in these posts, and see what happens. The …
I look at a lot of art, and I don’t tend to see colored pencil drawings popping up in the mix of esteemed or daring artworks. Oils, pastels, graphite, watercolor, ink, even conte is common in museums and galleries, but colored pencils seem to be a material outgrown as soon as any of the others …
Nicolás Uribe is posting 30 minute painting demos to youtube! He’s now six weeks into his two year goal to post weekly videos, and you should watch. Uribe talking about Susan Lichtman: Simple bold choices made in painting, I think that’s the core of painting. … The foundation of painting is so simple and basic, …
” load_in_animation=”none People are posting their creative challenges online! You can find them by using the hashtags #salchallenge @seattleartistleague. Below are some interesting artworks for week one that I wanted to share. The words for week one were unidextral, puerile, unlovesome, unguiform, unciform, urceiform, ubiquit. If you see your project here, contact me for your …
Sfumato
From the Latin (via Italian) fumare (“to smoke”), sfumato describes a painting technique with no harsh outlines. Areas blend into one another through tiny brushstrokes, which makes a hazy, atmospheric depiction of light and color. An early example of sfumato can be seen in Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. A more modern example is in Y.Z. Kami’s giant meditative portraits.
Pronunciation: sfoo·mah·toe
Xandy Peters : Sfumato
Brooklyn-based industrial designer Xandy Peters fools around with a scanner and some fluff. She produces some wonderful sfumato portraits.
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