[image_with_animation image_url=”7137″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Occasionally I can’t find my own darned painting on my own darned computer, so I’ll ask Google if it’s online somewhere. Today I was working on portrait palettes, and was looking for some of the quick portrait studies I’ve done. I remembered one and couldn’t find it on my computer, so I searched for it on Google. Pictured above is the painting I was looking for, “The Look.” Below are two images that came up along with it, side by side. The first is by Nicolai Fechin, the second is Snow White by Disney. While they don’t resemble my little study, they do strongly resemble each other. Placement of hands, placement of figure, angle of face, birds vs scissors. How strange. [image_with_animation image_url=”7151″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][image_with_animation image_url=”7152″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
The Big League Show’s Call for Art (deadline April 28) said artwork must be framed. My apologies. Framing is nifty, but your artwork does not need to be framed. Correction to the League Call for Art: Artwork must be ready to hang. What does “ready to hang” mean? Basically, it means your artwork needs a …
Last week Nikki Barber and I surprised my drawing classes with an unexpected session of printmaking. After a few weeks of drawing practice, Beginning and Figure Drawing students made monotypes for the first time, and LOVED IT. Yesterday I posted still life monoprints by the beginning drawing students. Today are figurative monoprints by the figure …
The Reith Lectures, Grayson Perry: Playing to the Gallery: 2013 Episode 1 of 4 Listen in pop-out player In the first of four lectures with the BBC, recorded in front of an audience at Tate Modern in London, the artist Grayson Perry reflects on the idea of quality and examines who and what defines what we …
I have a guest V. Note today from our printmaking instructor Nikki Barber. Back in April 2020, Nikki interviewed Sam Davidson, of Davidson Galleries in Seattle. Nikki asked Sam about his favorite works in the Davidson collection. This is a delightful interview about a variety of printmaking artists around the globe, with interesting work I …
Bird vs Scissors
[image_with_animation image_url=”7137″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Occasionally I can’t find my own darned painting on my own darned computer, so I’ll ask Google if it’s online somewhere. Today I was working on portrait palettes, and was looking for some of the quick portrait studies I’ve done. I remembered one and couldn’t find it on my computer, so I searched for it on Google. Pictured above is the painting I was looking for, “The Look.” Below are two images that came up along with it, side by side. The first is by Nicolai Fechin, the second is Snow White by Disney. While they don’t resemble my little study, they do strongly resemble each other. Placement of hands, placement of figure, angle of face, birds vs scissors. How strange. [image_with_animation image_url=”7151″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][image_with_animation image_url=”7152″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
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The Reith Lectures, Grayson Perry: Playing to the Gallery: 2013 Episode 1 of 4 Listen in pop-out player In the first of four lectures with the BBC, recorded in front of an audience at Tate Modern in London, the artist Grayson Perry reflects on the idea of quality and examines who and what defines what we …
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