… no amount of shading, color, or detail will ever hide poor structure. Often the problem when working from reference photos is that they are loaded with “shading, color and details”! So how do you look through all that “finishing stuff” to get to the “starting stuff”, i.e. the structure beneath? Block your artistic ears […]
Perhaps it’s because I’m a “seasoned” artist (an old guy with a nearly all white beard and wispy hair) that I am often asked to speak at art clubs and jury art shows. I could and probably should write a book on some of the “artistic oops-ies” I have observed over the years. While jurying, […]
As an artist/sculptor/set designer/book illustrator/prop and miniature builder, I have been very blessed to make a good living at what I love to do. Some people might look at professional artists and think, “Man I wish I could do my art for a living.” The key words in that statement are “my art,” and the […]
For better or for worse art instruction is often a close contact event. Usually for me the adult art students are sitting at art tables and I am standing behind them. When I need to take pencil or brush in hand I lean forward over their shoulder or sit close to them so that their […]