CONTOUR LINES
Above: Detail from “Caire” by Tim O’Keefe” “Contour” is taken from a French word meaning “outline” or “to go around”. In art “contour” usually has two meanings. The use...
CLOSE CONTACT ART INSTRUCTION
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...
LEO
LEO Often Pharaohs, Kings and mighty men of war depicted their victories in bas-relief friezes. Because Lions are such regal predators their images were often associated with royalty in...
Who is this R. Adkins Guy ?
I only knew him as Mr. Aikins for all those many years his gifted son David came to me as an art student and eventually as an employee. David...
Buddy’s on the Chopping Block !
When you enter a piece of artwork into a juried show you must remember that juried art shows are relative. Your art piece is judged worthy or not according...
The Joys and Woes of Illustrating a Children’s Book
I have, for my whole life, been in love with cartoons and cartooning. Cartoons are usually free and fun but when you are asked to consider illustrating a...
3/4 portrait
Portraits are hard … not only do you have to be anatomically correct but you further have to achieve a likeness. When I jury a portrait in an...
Bas-Relief: Drawing “Thick”
Above are some of my bas-relief sculptures – each sculpture is only about 2 inches thick. I can imagine that most two dimensional artists from amateur to professional would...
“The Predator”
I sculpted this piece many years ago and have always wanted to make a mold of it so that I could cast and reproduce it as an affordable production...
Artistic Media: Build Your Skills
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...