Tag: observation
Painting in Your Own Backyard by Deb Bartos
This sounds like something you would do if you were three and your mother was hanging clothes on the line. It is really excellent art education advice. Ordinary and mundane objects can be the best subjects ever. An added advantage is not wasting time or money on the commute to painting expeditions. Consider the impressionists…..
Jerry’s Blog Team -- 16/06/2010
Artists as the Way Showers Sages and Soothsayers by Cheryl Whitestone
This 16×20†oil painting is one of the illustrations from a story that came to me, a kind of healing Native American myth. I have titled the book “Dennies Totally Bizarre Magical Mystical Rite of Passage.†I would tell you it is a true story but you wouldn’t believe me, so you can think of…..
Jerry’s Blog Team -- 08/06/2010
Levels of Observation by Cheryl Whitestone
I have to say, after 45 years of painting, I have truly trained myself to see. To see in a way that not only understands the energy, feeling or beauty of something or someone but the minute details and nuances that compose the thing I am viewing. I believe if you can truly see, you…..