Eugène Delacroix exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Eugène Delacroix exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Very happy about the upcoming Eugène Delacroix exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum. Delacroix | The Metropolitan Museum of Art I read his journal when I was in my 20’s. I’ve always admired his work and felt a kinship as an artist. The painting below is titled Christ […]
Lessons in Masterful Portrait Drawing: A Classical Approach to Drawing the Head by Mau-Kun Yim
Just received this book on Charcoal Portrait Drawing by Mau-Kun Yim that I had ordered and would like to report that I’m very pleased with it and highly recommend it. Below is link to youtube video of the artist demonstrating. Lessons in Masterful Portrait Drawing: A Classical Approach to Drawing the Head
Indian Hunter, 2017
Well this painting combines two things that I love: painting in the snow and the first statue installed in Central Park after the park was created. Keyword there is after as Bethesda Fountain was there already part of the original design of the park. The sculpture is by John Quincy Adams Ward who considered it […]
The Boatman, Winslow Homer copy
This will be the February giveawy which is an actaul 9×12″ watercolor (not a print) I did to one of my Patreons that I will randomly pick (I use this website to help https://www.random.org/lists/ It’s a copy of a Sargent that I did in between off moments of helping students at the Lincoln Square Community […]
Munsell Color Wheel
Between the traditional color wheel and the more modern one which uses RGB + CMY, I believe is where the Munsell Color Wheel falls and the color wheel that I prefer to refer to. I took a Munsell Color Wheel that I found on the internet and used Photoshop to tweak it slightly so that […]
Jeremy Mann Part 2
Jeremy Mann has been in the news lately. He is having an exhibit at John Pence Gallery and is presently on the cover of International Artist and Art Collector Magazines. And I found out as well that a documentary is being made about him entitled a solitary man.
The Sea Watched
A few years ago I had the opportunity to see a fascinating and wonderful and yet somewhat bizarre painting by Jamie Wyeth at the Adelson Gallery in New York. The painting was a seascape with his father Andrew and grandfather N.C. looking out at the ocean, but in the foreground looking out as well is […]
Young Emersonian
Today my teacher, Thomas Torak, used as an example a painting by Frank Mason to illustrate a point. I’ll just mention it (and not do justice to what was being explained at all) and won’t try to go into an explanation as that would probably require a lengthy treatise. Where I was being literal, trying […]
Da Vinci : Documentary on the Anatomical Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci (Full Documentary) – YouTube
The documentary mentions that he used a “steel dip pen” which in fact was a later invention, he would have used a quill which is a more expressive instrument that a steel dip pen. However, it’s an excellent documentary showing close ups of many great drawings. Da Vinci : Documentary on the Anatomical Drawings of […]