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.
I’ve been talking about how to use hands as expressive elements within a drawing. I love this idea so much, both for technical practice and for powerful personal expression, that I made a class to study expressive hands and heads, and I started collecting examples. Some I collected because I appreciated the rendering. Some I collected because the artist …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10207″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] feet fēt/ plural form of foot. foot fo͝ot/ noun the lower extremity of the leg below the ankle, on which a person stands or walks. Dogs, hoof, pad, paw, smellies, patas, meat plates, noggas, parmesan, cachichas, tootsies. Today, make some flippy floppies. ” load_in_animation=”none Thank you for sharing your work! I love seeing these artworks …
Lendy and I have been trading drawing images lately. She sent me these by Ginny Grayson. Lendy and I often share artworks with each other, some of them end up in V. Notes. We’ve been sharing drawings especially because we both love them so much, and they are underrepresented in galleries and museums. People often …
[image_with_animation image_url=”5970″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Sunrise looks like sunset, with this much smoke in the air. Yesterday every smoke alarm in my building was wailing, and my phone, no longer under my control, said “fah-yer. fah-yer.fah-yer.fah-yer.” The view outside was orange and hazy, and for a short childish moment, I thought the entire world …
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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