Do you have advice, an idea, or info that you would tell an art buddy? Let us know! Your idea could help fuel someone else’s creativity!
For example:
Did you know there is an app where people post photographs of themselves so other people can practice drawing/painting portraits? It’s a free app with real people, and copyright free selfies. If you want some portrait inspirations, and you happen to have an iPhone or iPad, check out this app! It’s called Sktchy.
Ok, so what’s your idea to share? Post it below on this blog page (if you are reading this on the website) or email it in. Your contribution might be posted in a future V. Note!
Next on the list of Carlos San Millan’s inspiring painters: Yann Kebbi. Kebbi was born in Paris in 1987. After receiving a degree in illustration, he continued his studies in Paris, where he spent his time creating prints, monotypes, and pencil sketches. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, and …
Yesterday I made a post about tracking viewer’s eye movements on a painting. Today I have the reverse: Graham Fink stairs at a blank screen, and the eye tracking software draws the picture as he moves his eyes.
Yesterday I posted my sketches; some fun ideas we are exploring in “Abstracting the Image” on Thursdays. Each week we’re taking a masterwork and exploring it with approaches inspired by contemporary abstract painters. The purpose of this exercise is to be able to lean on, and learn from the composition of the masterwork, while exploring …
This article by Michael Agresta was published in the Texas Observer in 2016. The lynchings have brought it to us again. San Antonio painter Vincent Valdez unveils a monumental work on the persistence of white supremacy in America. A casual art viewer, wandering into the David Shelton Gallery in Houston from this month and encountering …
Did you know…?
Do you have advice, an idea, or info that you would tell an art buddy? Let us know! Your idea could help fuel someone else’s creativity!
For example:
Did you know there is an app where people post photographs of themselves so other people can practice drawing/painting portraits? It’s a free app with real people, and copyright free selfies. If you want some portrait inspirations, and you happen to have an iPhone or iPad, check out this app! It’s called Sktchy.
Ok, so what’s your idea to share? Post it below on this blog page (if you are reading this on the website) or email it in. Your contribution might be posted in a future V. Note!
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This article by Michael Agresta was published in the Texas Observer in 2016. The lynchings have brought it to us again. San Antonio painter Vincent Valdez unveils a monumental work on the persistence of white supremacy in America. A casual art viewer, wandering into the David Shelton Gallery in Houston from this month and encountering …