For many hundreds of years people all over the world have been using a cooking vessel that since 1710 we call a Dutch Oven. It is simply a cast iron pot with a tightly fitting lid . With this versatile cooking utensil a cook can bake, boil, stew, fry or roast. Now imagine how much […]
“Cognition” is best defined as, “a knowing” and “recognize” is, “to know again”. Learning to be an artist is all about learning to see or re-cognize what you “know ” about the subject you are re-presenting. Let’s say you are doing a portrait and your subject is wearing a tee shirt. Let’s put aside the […]
Does it help an artist to know that one of the main muscles in the neck is called the sterno-cleido-mastoideus? Probably not. But it is critical for an artist to know how this muscle affects the surface and shapes the neck. These long Latin-sounding muscle names are merely describing its shape, size and/or location. For example, “sterno-cleido-mastoideus” is really just […]
I have taught art, sculpture and anatomy to thousands of art students for over thirty years now. I have also juried tens of thousands of pieces of art for shows contested nationally, state, county and city wide . I will be letting you in on the many things I look for when jurying an art […]
Many of my students are professional artists. Sometimes their work is so good all I can say, by way of critique, is “it’s perfect … just sign it “. As for their success and career everything is going great but when it comes to their wholistic art health there is a danger . I have […]
“He’s off doing his art thing” or, ” she is out there watercoloring somewhere “, “workin’ in the studio” or even, ” he/she’s got art deadlines to meet” . Whatever “it” is it’s what we do … What we must do and what we want to do … Because we are artists ! When I […]
As an entry into an art show a tangent is not a guaranteed eliminator but it is an annoyance that can easily be avoided. A tangent is when a line or a shape in the background just touches a line or a shape in the foreground. While a tangent could possibly get your artwork eliminated […]