I found some lovely masterwork studies drawn by Fran O’Neill, but she didn’t list the paintings they were drawn from. I figured I’d make a game of it.
Be the first to identify the artist and title of one of these masterwork paintings and win $50 towards a class.
Fran O’Neill is teaching a landscape class with us on Tuesdays starting May 5th. This is a rare opportunity to learn from a fabulous NY/Australian artist right in your own backyard. I’m absolutely positively enthusiastically in! Are you?
If you listen to NPR, you may have heard yesterday’s story on “Why Certain Poor Shepherds In Nativity Scenes Have Huge, Misshapen Throats.” According to retired surgeon Renzo Dionigi of the University of Insubria in Varese, Italy (NPR), goiters have been a sign of poverty and geographic location. The purpose of including goiters in paintings may have …
I had a couple of extra long work weeks, and a few days ago I decided to zonk myself out with bit of TV. What I ended up watching didn’t zonk me out. It rejuvenated me. Days later, I’m still smiling about it. The movie was “Nothing Changes: Art for Hank’s Sake” a documentary about …
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 …
I’ve been teaching an expressive portraits class on Friday nights. In the first few classes we talked about common pitfalls including the blueberry pancake effect of features floating in the middle of a round face shape. We practiced how to measure proportions quickly, how to see the three dimensional aspects of a face, what makes …
Name a Masterwork and Win $50
I found some lovely masterwork studies drawn by Fran O’Neill, but she didn’t list the paintings they were drawn from. I figured I’d make a game of it.
Be the first to identify the artist and title of one of these masterwork paintings and win $50 towards a class.
Fran O’Neill is teaching a landscape class with us on Tuesdays starting May 5th. This is a rare opportunity to learn from a fabulous NY/Australian artist right in your own backyard. I’m absolutely positively enthusiastically in! Are you?
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