Posted in Learning to paint on Feb 24th, 2010
On February 20, 2010, 5 artists met at my Valle of Yellow Creek Art Studio, located in the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, to learn more about the technique of painting wet into wet with watercolors.
At first glance wet into wet paintings appear to be an easy way to paint. One should just [...]
Posted in Learning to paint on Jan 18th, 2010
So you want to become an artist?
“Can you tell me how you got to where you are with your work. I mean, my art is all over the place. I don’t know where to begin or when to finish. There’s no commonality in anything I am making. How do I make paintings like [...]
Posted in Learning to paint on Jan 13th, 2010
Beneficial tips for pulling your painting together with glazing. I invite you to keep a notebook either on a notes program in your computer or on paper for these tips.
Painting with only a single color wash makes a clear color. But, a single wash does not make the brilliant color wanted, in most [...]
Posted in Learning to paint on Jan 11th, 2010
After the watercolor workshop in South Georgia, on Saturday, I’ve returned to a cold and snowy North Georgia.
There were 7 students (3 new) in class. These are often ladies that have known each other for a lifetime. They are serious about learning watercolor fundamentals! They do not take this workshop lightly.
The subject [...]
Posted in Learning to paint on Jan 8th, 2010
The variety of our paintings is dependent on many factors.
These are some areas of variety could be described as variety of shape, variety of tone values, variety in edge shapes, variety in texture and a variety in graduation.
Each of these elements has a rhythmic quality of its own and it’s a long list.
The [...]
Posted in Learning to paint on Dec 13th, 2009
These lines signify solidity in the foundations of paintings.
The combination of horizontal and vertical lines as in the Cross. The Cross is a combination of lines that instantly rivets the attention, and probably has the most powerful effect upon the mind that could ever have been devised.
These lines and others help paintings have a natural [...]
Posted in Learning to paint on Dec 11th, 2009
In this drawing lesson we learn of horizontal and vertical boundary lines.
Horizontal and vertical lines are very important in rectangular pictures, as they unite the composition to its boundary lines by their parallel relationship.
As a contrast to the richness and beauty of curves they are of great value and are often used for this purpose.
Horizontal [...]
Posted in Learning to paint on Dec 9th, 2009
A perfect line has no artistic music.
There are two lines that have the least variation and they are the perfectly straight line and a circle. A perfectly straight line obviously has no variety at all. And, the circle, by curving at exactly the same ratio all around, has no variation of curvature. It is of [...]
Posted in Learning to paint on Dec 9th, 2009
New Thoughts: How to Achieve Unity, Variety and Rhythm in your paintings.
Posted in Learning to paint on Nov 10th, 2009
Rhythm can best be described as a” movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent or the like.” Dictionary.com.
From 1906 until 1908 there was a Symbolist artist association in Moscow. They emphasised color as a ‘tonal’ medium to construct rhythm in a painting and the elimination of shape and contour. Their [...]
