"Loree" - original graphite portrait drawing of a woman

15 days ago | Hackberry Street Studio

Although I love to draw with charcoal, occasionally I will use a graphite pencil to do a portrait. I used HB and 2B on this one - the support was Canson mixed media paper. The...
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When You Are Wright

20 days ago | The Fabuleous Fifties

Saturday Leftover Day. David Wright is an almost forgotten comic artist from the fifties and sixties, who is very much loved by those who do remember his work. For a long time...
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PURPLE + YELLOW TREE - pastel landscape by Susan E Roden

23 days ago | Susan Roden

PURPLE + YELLOW TREE 8" x 8" soft pastel on sanded paper 12" white mat, glass + black frame $275 - tax + shipping inclusive With the new year, I'm off to a fresh start! I've...
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Imaging Your Paintings: Why Worry?

1 month ago | Michael Chesley Johnson

View in browser Littlejohn process camera, used until the early 1990s for creating printing plates from large line drawings. Do you agonize over color-correcting the photos...
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Sketch o'the Week: Charlie's Angels!

1 month ago | Tom Richmond

In case you haven't noticed, almost all the sketches I've done of famous classic TV detectives over the last several months have one thing in common... they are all white guys...
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Color Me Blind

1 month ago | The Fabuleous Fifties

Sunday Al Williamson Day. I thought I had done this, even remember writing it. But it is nowhere to be found, so here I go again. This Williamson story is part of a series of...
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Boatyard

1 month ago | Gurney Journey

Boatyard, plein-air study, gray markers and charcoal with white gouache.
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Bukovac and his Scraps of Paper

1 month ago | Gurney Journey

"While he was teaching his girls at home, at the table, Vlaho Bukovac used every piece of paper, newspaper and book to make sketches on. When the last piece of paper in sight...
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Changeling

2 monthes ago | Real Art

Acrylic and pastel on canvas 24" x 24" Have been working with deliberately transparent colours for a while but either toughening them up with whites or using them as glazes on...
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Childe Hassam's World's Fair Gouaches

2 monthes ago | Gurney Journey

Childe Hassam was an eyewitness to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Childe Hassam, World's Fair, Chicago, gouache on paper laid on board, 11 x 14 inches. Heritage...
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Emma Elliott presents new marble sculptures at on form 18

Emma Elliott is one of forty sculptors selected for on form 18, a biennial exhibition of sculpture in stone at Asthall Manor in the Cotswolds. She joins world renowned and... Read more ...

Vibrant Makeup Mirrors Sweet Frozen Treats in Max Siedentopf's ‘Pleasure...

All images © Max Siedentopf, shared with permission London-based artist and creative director Max Siedentopf has a knack for portraying more than meets the eye in his... Read more ...

Sketch o'the Week- Jenna Ortega!

The Lovely Anna and I finally watched the last of the new “Wednesday” show on Netflix staring the perfectly cast Jenna Ortega as the titular character. We enjoyed it quite a... Read more ...

Blue Glass, Teal Glass Goblet and Orange

More delicious finds from the thrift store. This still life was set up in natural light by my east window. I worked on the drawing for a couple of days to get the composition... Read more ...

Early Pongo

These rough animation drawings show the early design of Pongo with a larger muzzle. See previous post on this topic here Ollie Johnston animated this section from the opening... Read more ...

The Poetic Face: Shirley S

Pastel Portrait and Video of Shirley S. Poet Read more ...

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