[vc_row type=”in_container” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]These are some paintings in which my favorite part is the wall.
Enjoy.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”1937,1938,1953,1939,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1954,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1955,1957,1940,1936″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ gallery_style=”1″][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]Do not paint a white thing white. A white thing is everything other than white.
The video below illuminates some of the colors actually present in an image of a white horse, and a white flower. Because colors change according to what they’re next to, they still fool me even after all these years.
COLOR MIXING TIP 1: When I want to match a color without being fooled by illusions, I isolate it from the surrounding colors by looking at it through a hole in a piece of white or gray paper.
COLOR MIXING TIP 2: To test a color mix with a photo reference, I put the reference in a big ziplock bag and plop the paint right on the plastic over the photo so I can see what needs adjusting.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCf1KAl8c6E”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Thank you to Claire Putney for introducing us to the work of Matthew Cusick.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][image_with_animation image_url=”5955″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text] Matthew Cusick “Cusick uses atlases for his powerful collages, uniting pieces of the landscape …
Today’s TRANSCRIPTION Challenge: Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass. Media is artist’s choice. In recent V. Notes I talked about how artists learn and get inspired by studying works by other artists. In art, to transcribe is to copy or record information in a different form than the original. To transcribe a painting or drawing is not …
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”10799″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”20″][vc_column_text]Denis Sarazhin is a Ukranian-born painter whose textured works seem to be carved out of rough flecks of color. The angular joints, and compositional habit of using a body’s limbs to …
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”9675″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]Topophilia (From Greek topos “place” and -philia, “love of”) is a strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of …
Portraits of Blank Walls
[vc_row type=”in_container” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]These are some paintings in which my favorite part is the wall.
Enjoy.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”1937,1938,1953,1939,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1954,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1955,1957,1940,1936″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ gallery_style=”1″][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]Do not paint a white thing white. A white thing is everything other than white.
The video below illuminates some of the colors actually present in an image of a white horse, and a white flower. Because colors change according to what they’re next to, they still fool me even after all these years.
COLOR MIXING TIP 1: When I want to match a color without being fooled by illusions, I isolate it from the surrounding colors by looking at it through a hole in a piece of white or gray paper.
COLOR MIXING TIP 2: To test a color mix with a photo reference, I put the reference in a big ziplock bag and plop the paint right on the plastic over the photo so I can see what needs adjusting.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCf1KAl8c6E”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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