Regular servings of inspiration for visual artists from the bestselling author of Dinotopia, Color & Light, and Imaginative Realism.
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What Sargent Learned from Velázquez
In the winter of 1879, a 23-year-old John Singer Sargent stood in the Prado, copying Las Meninas (below). The master’s canvas was nearly ten feet tall and had been hanging in that room for over two hundred years, dimmed by varnish and lampb...
Atmospheric Value and Distance
Plein-air study painted in oil on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, looking west.
Blog reader Rockhopper asked why tones get lighter in the distance as a result of atmospheric perspective:
“How do you define value as the image recedes?...
More Dazzling Dexterity and the Science Behind It
Even though we've seen some mind-boggling examples of hand skills last week and the week before. I saved the best for last. You’ll enjoy these incredible demonstrations of manual agility, coordination, and dexterity.
To wrap this post, I'...
A Chinese Portrait Demo
Here’s a step-by-step drawing sequence by an academically trained Chinese artist.
Let’s start with the finished drawing by Xubucheng. Blog reader ZS has generously translated the Chinese notes in the book, which I’ll show in bold after eac...
More Incredible Hands Skills
Here’s another group of hand skills:
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Calligraphy. Thick stroke on the pull, and thin line on the return.
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Off-Hand Flourishing. An outgrowth of ornamental flourishes in writing, this evolved as a special skill in the Golden Ag...
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Author and illustrator of Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time and the art instruction books Color and Light and Imaginative Realism.
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