Regular servings of inspiration for visual artists from the bestselling author of Dinotopia, Color & Light, and Imaginative Realism.
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Chart of Paint Popularity Among Illustrators
Which mediums did illustrators use between 1900 and now? I wondered.
Oil dominated at first. Gouache and casein had their heyday mid-century. Acrylic gradually replaced casein. But by the year 2000, digital trounced them all.
What do...
What's Actually in a Tube of Gouache
I used to think a tube of gouache held three things: pigment, binder, and water. It turns out there are at least nine ingredients packed in there, and most of them aren’t doing what you’d guess from the label.
Manufacturers don’t always di...
Working Backwards
Here's the experiment:
What I learned from my retrograde rumination is that writing backwards isn’t too hard, but speaking backwards is more difficult, at least for me.
The process for speaking backwards was to record the line, flip it f...
Q&A Sunday: Costume Reference
Jean-Leon Gerome, photo of costumed model and painting.
Q: Your paintings have a historical or fantastical weight that feels remarkably authentic. How much of that comes down to costumes?
Thanks! It matters a lot to me to have good c...
It didn't feel like this when it all began....
Is your experience different? Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s my algorithm, maybe it’s what’s in the cultural pipeline, but computer life seems different lately.
But you’ll have to tell me about Tiktok, because I haven’t yet met that beast.
Le...
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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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