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Color Theory is relative to each artist and viewer. There are many factors that contribute to the overall effect of a colors in a piece. Color temperature, color relativity, color value, and color relationships can create a vast array of effects. Color has always been a mystery for me, difficult to understand and use [...] This is a very descriptive survey that visualizes how artists are operating in American society. It also highlights how diverse and “undefinable” artists are today. I think a lot of us can relate to this survey as we all fit in it somewhere. Despite the economic hardships I agree with most artists in this [...] Henri Matisse: “The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the image of the thing.”
-sean I have recently discovered Francis Cunningham’s You Tube Channel.This guy seems to know what he is talking about. -Mat While reading “The Zen of Creativity” – John Daido Loori, I have passed over many topics that I have felt like sharing with every artist I know. Most are ideas relating to the artistic process and the roots of human art making. These couple of pages I found especially applicable to any media. So [...] Much of the Beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. - Henri Matisse I saw this at the beginning of a nice, 54 min documentary about origami, titled, “Between the Folds”. It’s on Netflix if you got it. Mat JOHN CAGE’S TEN RULES 1. Find a place you trust and then, try trusting it for a while. 2. Duties as a student…Pull everything out of your teacher. Pull everything out of your fellow students. 3. Duties as a teacher…Pull everything out of your students. 4. Consider everything an experiment. 5. Be self disciplined. [...] The ideas of remix and appropriation are a major topic in art today, music, and general culture. This film brings about many arguments on why it is important to have a free creative commons, and how restrictions upon this causes a stump in our creative and natural progress. Thank you hulu.com, and all the [...] Blind Contour Drawing will help you lose a crap ton of weight.
You will cut through the pounds of projections your mind tries to insert into your drawing when you are drawing from life. You see what is there, not what you think is there. It forces you to look at [...] Below are several images by artist Robert Venosa. He explains on one page about the Mische Technique or the “Masters Technique” a process used by 17th Century Flemish Masters. Boiled down this technique is a combination of Oil Glazing and White Egg Tempra highlighting. The build up of many layers of [...] |
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