#1 What’s your idea in colored pencil drawing? Have a general idea in mind what colored pencil drawing you want to create. The idea is a visual story in color, subject or light. It doesn’t have to be the figure. It could be one object displayed in a unique light, […]
Month: April 2023
Graeme Drendel wins $150,000 Doug Moran Portrait Prize 2022
Graeme Drendel with his portrait of fellow portrait painter Lewis Miller Last week it was announced that Victorian artist Graeme Drendel has won Australia’s richest portrait prize, the $150,000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2022 (DMNPP), for his painting of fellow artist Lewis Miller. Portrait of Lewis Miller by Graeme Drendel It’s […]
Planning For The Future | Emmanuel Umana | Episode 869
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Emmanuel Emana | Episode 869 Having recently graduated from college, Emmanuel Umana is on his way to developing a new career in ceramics. SPONSORS You can help support the show! Number 1 brand in America for a reason. Skutt.com […]
Episode 6 of Portrait Artist of the Year 2022 (Series 9)
. I provide some detail which got left out of some of the bios on television. Links to websites are embedded in names. The Sitters The sitters this episode were: Jim Carter – a very experienced actor whose roles have included Mr Carson from Downton Abbey – who brought a cricket […]
Juxtapoz Magazine – Geoff McFetridge Explores the “Rust Drinkers”
A new Geoff McFetridge exhibition feels like a look into the current American psyche. It’s both emotional and anonymous, introspective and outward-looking. There are no faces but it could be anybody. One of the things I have loved about speaking to Geoff over the years is the careful consideration of […]
Ed Hrybyk: A Jazz Bassist Buoyed by Bright Moments
Once I was at a party and heard a man declare that live music was dead. As a touring musician and concert organizer, I had to interject. “No it isn’t! There are shows happening all the time!” “Then tell me where I can go see some live jazz tonight,” the […]
5 Steps to master color harmony in colored pencil drawing – Veronica Winters Painting
When you begin drawing in colored pencil, the aim is to copy what you see in front of you or in your reference. Artists who draw in colored pencil pay attention to small things like details and textures, and they’re important. However they become important only when the basic drawing […]
Proxistant Vision” Takes Over the Museum of Craft and Design
Bull.Miletic: Proxistant Vision is now on view at the Museum of Craft and Design (MCD). Guest curated by Carol Covington, this exhibition is the culmination of artist duo Bull.Miletic’s research exploring the impact of new aerial imaging technologies and their influence and power in everyday life. Following the current surge […]
Anthony McCall makes air visible
While air is often invisible and elusive, Anthony McCall’s light installation Crossing 2016 draws viewers’ attention to the volume of air held within a space. This dramatic ‘solid light’ sculpture makes air visible through shafts of light intersecting with smoke haze. Those entering McCall’s expansive light installation at the Gallery […]
FROM DEPERO TO ROTELLA: ITALIAN COMMERCIAL POSTERS BETWEEN ADVERTISING AND ART
The exhibition examines the cross-pollination between avant-garde art and commercial posters in Italy, with a particular focus on the interwar year and the early post-WW2 era, during the country’s economic boom. With a starting date in 1926 (the year in which Depero exhibited the Venice Biennale a “quadro pubblicitario”, Squisito […]