Useful and Beautiful

Beautiful without being over-sentimentalized.

(via Underpaintings: PSoA Honorable Mention: Candice Bohannon)

3 weeks ago

First really complete egg tempera still life. I’m very happy with this!

The Blue Ball Jar • 2011 • 16x12” egg tempera on panel

(via Blue Ball Jar | Katharine Taylor)

4 months ago

That’s the way you do reflections.

(via Daily paintings | Single malt (reflections in a glass of whisky) | Postcard from Provence)

4 months ago -

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Commissioned still life I did to go with my painting “Two Mugs,” with similar colors and shapes.

Blue and Brown
2011 • 12 x 9” oil on canvas

(via Blue and Brown | Katharine Taylor)

4 months ago

Waiting for the mood, being unable to control oneself, is the stamp of amateurism. My principle is that one ought always to control oneself.

Underpaintings: Words of Wisdom: Frederic Lord Leighton

4 months ago

See the blog post for step-by-step images.

(via Underpaintings: Ryan S. Brown: The Loneliness of Waiting)

4 months ago

Seen far too infrequently? I don’t think I’ve EVER seen this Norman Rockwell work. GREAT composition, contrast, character… the slightly upward viewing angle may be sort of obvious, but it’s so effective…

(via Muddy Colors: Appreciating Rockwell, Pt.2)

4 months ago -

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So much done with so little…

(via DUBOVSKAYA Nick - Frosty Morning • 200 Russian painters • download painting • Gallerix.ru)

5 months ago

The notebooks brings to light Leonardo’s insatiable curiosity, as well as an immense lack of focus. Some experts, such as Jonah Lehrer, think that this lack of focus may actually have contributed to Da Vinci’s creativity. In his upcoming book Imagine, How Creativity Works, Jonah states: “We live in an age that worships attention. When we need to work, we force ourselves to concentrate. This approach can also inhibit the imagination. Sometimes, it helps to consider irrelevant information, to eavesdrop on all the stray associations unfolding in the far reaches of the brain.

Muddy Colors

5 months ago

Artists I love: Winslow Homer. Gloucester Harbor, 1873

Why Homer is amazing: dead-on accurate draftsmanship combined with effortless painterly brushstrokes and beautiful warm-and-cool color palette. He paints water and rocks better than anyone else.

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