“…What more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?” – Richard Corliss (1944-2015)
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“No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.” – Edvard Munch
Yesterday I said the next post would be about color, but I didn’t have time to write today, and there has been so much bad news that I wanted to put a little art in your inbox. Today is an addition to yesterday’s post about the Effects of Light, with illusions of glow produced from …
I’ve been painting (yippee!), so there was a pause in the V. Notes for a few days, but I didn’t want another day to go by without putting another artist in your inbox. Here he is: Hurvin Anderson. Anderson is a British-Jamaican artist, and another one of Carlos San Millan’s favorites. You may have noticed …
Alla Prima Sketch in Oil by Shane Wolf Before I begin, I assemble my brushes. For an alla prima sketch of this size (canvas size approximately 20×15) these are the brushes I’ll likely use. You’ll notice mostly flats. For the male figure I use mostly flats; I like the planal, sculptural strokes they provide. For female figures I’ll …
Figurative Art History
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Alla Prima Sketch in Oil by Shane Wolf Before I begin, I assemble my brushes. For an alla prima sketch of this size (canvas size approximately 20×15) these are the brushes I’ll likely use. You’ll notice mostly flats. For the male figure I use mostly flats; I like the planal, sculptural strokes they provide. For female figures I’ll …