On 27 May, 2010 With
What is it like to be a freelance artist, and what exactly do you study to become one? I will tell you what courses I took in college that were useful to me later as a professional, and what I needed to know beyond my college education. There are many facets to being a successful artist, many of which aren’t taught in art school. First of all, become well skilled in color theory, or, how to use color effectively. Using color is important especially to painters, interior designers and anyone who needs to choose colors for clients. There are many books on the subject, but make sure to learn about the Color Wheel, and buy the expensive colored paper packs…
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On 26 May, 2010 With
Champollion, the famous explorer of Egyptian antiquities, holds the following language at the end of his fifteenth letter, dated at Thebes. “It is evident to me, as it must be to all who have thoroughly examined Egypt or have an accurate knowledge of the Egyptian monuments existing in Europe, that the arts commenced in Greece by a servile imitation of the arts in Egypt, much more advanced than is vulgarly believed, at the period when the Egyptian colonies came in contact with the savage inhabitants of Attica or the Peloponnesus. Without Egypt, Greece would probably never have become the classical land of the fine arts. Such is my entire belief on this great problem. I write these lines almost in…
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On 26 May, 2010 With
You see, all good pencil sketch tutorials should contain two very important criteria. The first criteria that a good drawing tutorial should fulfill is that it has to be written by an artist. If it’s a pencil sketch tutorial, it’s best that a pencil artist writes the tutorial. That’s because only the artists themselves have a true understanding of the problems and challenges of pencil sketching. And those are exactly the same problems that you’re facing, and now you’re hoping that someone has found the solutions to those problems and can help you with them. The second criteria of a good drawing tutorial is that the tutorial should be written by someone who knows how to communicate and train effectively….
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On 26 May, 2010 With
Eyesight Realism Not Camera Realism Don’t take a single photo and turn it into a painting. Not because it’s “cheating” but because your eye doesn’t see the same as a camera. Your eye sees more detailed color, your eye doesn’t frame the scene in standard proportions, your eye doesn’t have a depth of field that’s dependent on a setting. A realistic landscape will be “in focus” all the way to the horizon, not blur out of focus as a photo with a narrow depth of field will. Color is Relative Color isn’t a set thing. It’s relative to what’s next to it, what kind of light is shining on it, whether the surface if reflective or matte. Depending on the…
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On 26 May, 2010 With
Is anyone able to sit down and play the piano beautifully without having received lessons? Can one read automatically without being taught? No. All of us who have acquired these skills have learned them early in our lives through a structured program of instruction. This is true not only for music and reading but for all other artistic subjects. Why is it then that we don’t provide instruction for drawing?Young children are often overlooked by the traditional drawing curriculum that tends to focus on children over twelve or thirteen years old, who are blessed with natural talent and who can usually draw already. School teachers do craft projects and provide younger children with free time to do symbolic stick-figure-style drawings….
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On 26 May, 2010 With
Fuseli knew not well how to begin with quiet beauty and serene grace: the hurrying measures, the crowding epithets, and startling imagery of the northern poetry suited his intoxicated fancy. His “Thor battering the Serpent” was such a favorite that he presented it to the Academy as his admission gift. Such was his love of terrific subjects, that he was known among his brethren by the name of Painter in ordinary to the Devil, and he smiled when some one officiously told him this, and said, “Aye! he has sat to me many times.” Once, at Johnson the bookseller’s table, one of the guests said, “Mr. Fuseli, I have purchased a picture of yours.” “Have you, sir; what is the…
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On 26 May, 2010 With
A monument to Titian, from the studio of the brothers Zandomenghi, was erected in Venice in 1852; and the civil, ecclesiastical, and military authorities were present at the ceremony of inauguration. It represents Titian, surrounded by figures impersonating the Fine Arts; below are impersonations of the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The basement is adorned with five bas-reliefs, representing as many celebrated paintings by the great artist.
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On 26 May, 2010 With
What many people mean when they say they’d like to learn to paint, is they’d like to learn to paint realism. To create a painting where the subject looks like it does in real life, or “real”. It’s only when you’re up close you see the skillful manipulation of color, tone, and perspective to create the illusion of reality. Realism Takes Days Not Hours Image © Stuart Gregory / Getty Images Painting realism takes time. Expect to spend days and weeks, not merely a few hours on a painting. You can’t paint detailed realism and also want to knock off a painting every afternoon unless you’re painting a small canvas with something simple like a single apple. Accurate Perspective is…
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On 26 May, 2010 With
We can use coloured pencils for the drawing. The technique of pencil lining and shading remains the same for the black or colour pencils. But in case of the colour pencils you should have good experience of drawing. If you know some basic rules of the art of pencil drawing, that would help you much. While using colour pencil as medium of drawing, you can exploit it extremely well. The different shades available in this field of colour drawing would enable you more freedom in expressing the scene before your eyes. The pencils and proper choice of the colours play a greater part, if you are drawing with coloured pencils. In case of the black pencil drawing, the skillful use…
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On 25 May, 2010 With
If you enjoy drawing or want to learn how to draw and make people laugh at the same time, then learn to draw caricatures is the site for you. Do you have aspirations of perhaps becoming a cartoonist or caricature artist? What if you could find a way to guarantee your artistic success.? By learning the real secrets of how to draw caricatures, you could become a caricature artist and dramatically change your lifestyle. Just imagine if you had a constant stream of work and could go from job to job, drawing your cartoonish faces, with no slowdowns. Just think about earning money from simply drawing cartoonish faces. Can it get any better than this? Just imagine how impressed and…
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