In the first of this brand new series, professional artist Matthew Palmer takes 3 students Mandy, Harry and Nigel through a simple watercolour painting, an autumnal landscape. Matthew begins this painting by explaining how to start with a wet in wet sky before adding some distant trees using the stippling technique. Follow Matthew as he teaches you how to add simple yet effective foreground details,...
Professional artist Marilyn Allis paints three exotic elephants on a vibrant background using mixed media. Marilyn demonstrates how to use your imagination to create this dynamic scene. She shows how to paint elephants using loose brushstrokes in watercolour and then how to use pastels to create depth in the painting. With Marilyns help you will soon be able to create this animated and colourful elephant...
Today popular artist Terry Harrison shows you how to paint in watercolour a picturesque village, set in the snow of winter. Using masking fluid, to highlight areas of snow, Terry also shows you how to easily add the sun to this breathtaking composition, by simply using a coin! With his trademark brushes, he guides you with ease through this winter scene, showing you that not...
In the third of a four part series, professional artist Terry Harrison continues to reveal his 'Tops Tips for Acrylic Artists'. In this episode Terry shows that by varying background colours and using a number of trusted techniques such as 'stippling', the same tree can work for all seasons. Terry demonstrates how to use light fresh colours for spring, more vibrant colours for summer, colourful...
Speed painting and exclusive materiasl - visit my new website at http://www.williams-shamir.com to see works in progress and get inside information and thoughts on my paintings and other things hi everyone this is my 5th shot at digital painting ... i'm still kind of experimenting and trying new things ... here i tried a new technique which is starting in grayscale and then coloring ......
For nearly two centuries, scholars had assumed that, like many other master potters in early 19th-century Manhattan, Thomas Commeraw was white. For one, Commeraw made salt-glazed stoneware, a technique brought to New York by German immigrants, and his first appearance in the city’s records, a 1795 directory, misspelled his name as “Commerau,” which made scholars speculate he was of French descent. (His surname might,...
At the top of the Tate Modern’s extension, the Blavatnik Building, is a viewing deck were the museum’s attendees can take in the views of London. The view includes a spate of luxury apartments of the Neo Bankside building that lies directly across from the museum. The building is situated very close to the museum—so much so that the museum’s patrons are able to...
The Manila-based gallery Silverlens, which opened a New York outpost last September, has taken on the estates of two major Filipino American artists from the postwar era: Carlos Villa and Leo Valledor. Villa’s estate is represented in partnership with Anglim/Trimble in San Francisco. Lifelong friends who called each other “cousin” as a term of endearment, Villa and Valledor were both born in San Francisco...
London’s National Gallery acquired a painting by 15th-century Italian artist Bernardo Cavallino at Sotheby’s in New York, where it was set a record for $3.9 million (with buyer’s premium). The painting, which depicts its titular subject Saint Bartholomew in a seated pose holding a knife, is believed to have produced between 1640 and 1645. The inclusion of the knife foreshadows the apostle’s martyrdom, as...
Nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary feature, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed by Laura Poitras provides and overview of the life and career of Nan Goldin through the lens of her recent struggle with opioid addiction and her subsequent activism against the Sackler family. Here we look back at this article about her iconic project The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Written...
