The Strength of Beauty
What makes a bridge strong? Is it the materials used, or the engineering technology employed in its creation? Is it how much weight it can…
What makes a bridge strong? Is it the materials used, or the engineering technology employed in its creation? Is it how much weight it can…
Is copying bad in art? In my experience within art education communities, there is a deeply held belief that copying anything in art is harmful….
Naming the shapes within your shapes helps you to draw accurately. Name Those Shapes “Don’t you see? It looks like Minnesota on crack.” This is…
Red subjects have a bad reputation for being difficult to paint. But if you take time to identify its attributes, you can easily learn how…
Are you afraid you might not be good enough to start atelier training? You’re not alone. Atelier Training Can Be Intimidating I constantly field questions…
What happens when an art community suppresses itself? Types of Community Suppression When I was 14, my classmate, who I will call “D” and I…
“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.” –…
Cameras are just one way of translating information onto a 2D surface, but not the only way. And definitively not always the best way. There…
Is atelier training Eurocentric art? When considering mathematical concepts, rarely do people worry if the Pythagorean Theorem came from Ancient Greece, and that the symbols…
Artists work hard to lose their assumptions about what they are seeing, and truly observe the scenes before them. This is known as nurturing an…
Red, orange, yellow – warm colors right? Green, blue, purple are cool colors, right? Wrong. The truth is, that every color is both warm AND…
When artists abandon beauty and the human figure as worthy subjects, the advertising industry fills the vacuum with glee. This article explores why the creation…