Here the artist uses less glow effect by adding medium tones, but notice how the windows at the top aren’t surrounded by hard straight lines. The texture of the paint makes the light blue spill into the dark a little, making them sparkle. Smooth perfect lines would have killed the sparkle. See it?
Would you like your drawings and paintings to glow? Take my Cityscapes Workshop May 11/12.
In the previous post featuring Stanley Lewis, Lewis was quoted on his admiration of Wilbur Niewald. “You have got to find out about his paintings (…) Wilbur is an interpreter of Cézanne and Mondrian.” – Lewis Following this advice, I looked up Wilbur Niewald. My eyes were most eager to look at his drawings, still life, and …
Day 22 of our 30 day January Challenge was an optical illusion inspired by Patrick Hughes and Mrs Belzner’s class. This is a project that requires movement to do it’s optical deceit, so to see the projects at their best, go to Instagram and look for #30sal videos posted around January 22, 23, 24. Also, …
I went to Smith & Vallee Gallery to pick up what was left of my show after sales. It was a rewardingly small collection, just a few pieces left. There is one painting that I can’t believe is still here – one of my personal favorites. It received compliments from the gallery owner, and was …
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. After the very long vocabulary words #incomprehensibilities …
Glow effect in impasto by Richard Bisschop
Richard Bisschop
Here the artist uses less glow effect by adding medium tones, but notice how the windows at the top aren’t surrounded by hard straight lines. The texture of the paint makes the light blue spill into the dark a little, making them sparkle. Smooth perfect lines would have killed the sparkle. See it?
Would you like your drawings and paintings to glow? Take my Cityscapes Workshop May 11/12.
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