The Easel is an Artist’s Essential Tool You have paint brushes,and pencils and pads and canvases and a lot of talent and good ideas, but don’t forget the essential easel to support your creative work. An easel is highly valuable … Continue reading →
Ray Harryhausen, a Pioneer in Special Effects Animating Artist Extraordinaire When monsters become real And give childhood thrills And amuse adults Reel after reel, He kept the audience in house Hour after hour Did Ray Harryhausen. Chilling were the skeletons … Continue reading →
Here is an amazingly lifelike nude painting by Pál Fried (1893-1976). An Hungarian by birth, the painter first became a well-known artist in the early 20th century with art associated with portraits of high society Parisian women, ballerinas, Oriental and … Continue reading →
Recently, it was revealed, that President Trump, thinking himself King of the US, had demanded that the Guggenheim Museum in New York send him a Van Gogh painting for the White House to place in his personal quarters. The directors … Continue reading →
I want to give you an overview of a basic art kit. So these are some of my favorite products which I’ve been using for years and years and years. Let’s start with the big things first, a cutting mat. … Continue reading →
Here we have five paintings with two things in common, nude women and water. The water might be from a pool, an aquarium or the sea itself. And the nude women are tastefully seen. These are lovely paintings by artist … Continue reading →
Welcome to the Modern Impressionism of Russian artist Konstantin Razumov. These beautiful paintings show the mastery of both Realism and Impressionism techniques. In most of his figural paintings, the features of hands and face are painted realistically, while fabrics and … Continue reading →
There are and have been many great artists in the last 120 year or so that you may not have heard of. One such artist maybe George Owen Wynne Apperley. Born in England, the artist eventually moved first to Spain … Continue reading →