We spend our lives around and within the internet, using email and text messages. But these digital layers of information have yet to integrate into our paintings. Why? These images present us …
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Texting and Internet in Film and Paintings
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The Geometry of a Scene
One of Akira Kurosawa’s many gifts was staging scenes in ways that were bold, simple and visual. Here’s another short by Tony Zhou’s “Every Frame a Painting” series, with ideas …
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The Poetry of Details
What can one detail tell us about a scene? If you’re Lynne Ramsay: absolutely everything. In this episode from “Every Frame a Painting” Tony Zhou considers the poetic possibilities of cinema. …
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Blocking In
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! PAINTING TECHNIQUES TO GET YOU STARTED Blocking in is the step after your sketch, in which the canvas is covered with flat shapes …
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Matisse’s Influence On Diebenkorn
Nearly 100 works show how an American post-war painter used a French master’s work as inspiration. BMA Exhibit Curated by Katy Rothkopf. Post edited from original post by Gabriella Souza on Baltimore Arts & …
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Diebenkorn’s Figures
How Diebenkorn Abstracts the Figure Watch the diagonals: how they form shapes, intersect with each other, form pathways across and divide the canvas. See how he crops in close, balancing …
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The Sound of the Wind
“Winter solitude- in a world of one color the sound of the wind.” ― Bashō Matsuo From yesterday’s post: As a child, I collected the little cards with Japanese prints that came in …
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Hiroshige’s Rainy Moments
From Wikipedia: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese: 歌川 広重), also Andō Hiroshige (Japanese: 安藤 広重; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. …
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Marc Dalessio’s Winter Landscape Demo
Recently I’ve posted several painters’ interviews from Painting Perceptions, so today I wanted to branch out a little. I was happy to find this Youtube painting demo with some helpful information …
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