Artist Spotlite – Interview with Monica Vanzant
 “My favorite medium is oil and landscapes fascinate me but my personality forces me to continuously stretch my wings and try new things. My subject determines my media. This is why I paint in oils, watercolor and acrylic. I want to experience the entire spectrum of creating art.” |
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Oil Painting Assistant – Painting Software For Your Computer
Oil painting assistant is a nice piece of software that helps you complete an oil painting and is an excellent tool for beginners.
Here is the description of the software taken from the authors website:
“Oil Painting Assistant helps you produce oil paintings of images from a scanner, digital camera, or the web. With Oil Painting Assistant, you load in a digital image, crop it to fit your canvas, and adjust coloration to suit your tastes. It also applies a grid to the image so you can more accurately sketch on your canvas. The assistant then displays an analysis of the image showing what paints would be useful for the painting’s base coat. The analysis and grid-overlaid image can be displayed on your monitor while you paint, or printed on a color printer.”
Oil painting assistant is free to download and try out, however the author does request that you register the software for a very reasonable fee. I feel it is definitely worth the price and you should consider registering the software if you find it useful.
An introduction to Negative Drawing with Mike Sibley
The tools you will require are simple:
NEGATIVE DRAWINGI often hear the phrases ‘negative drawing’ and ‘negative space’ used as if they are synonymous. They aren’t. Negative space is employed as a brain-fooling method of seeing shapes with clarity. Negative Drawing is a conscious method of working that isolates and protects areas of your paper. These areas can be entire elements that are often completed later; smaller areas where the intention is to leave them as virgin highlights or white shapes against a darker background; or minute areas that, for example, form white hairs between their cast shadows. To further dispel confusion, Negative Drawing does not involve any form of erasing. Applying graphite and cutting into it with an eraser could be described as ‘drawing in negative’, but it is the exact opposite of true Negative Drawing, which primarily exists to isolate and protect virgin areas of paper. Think of it as defining the boundaries of a shape using only the tone that surrounds it. In other words, you aren’t drawing the object but simply giving the illusion of the object by drawing around it. Read more |
A small oil painting demo
I found a great oil painting demo today on “All the Strange Hours”, a blog about the visual arts.
It is a simple still life demonstration entitled, “Green Pear, Red Pear.”
The artist goes into great detail describing how he completes the painting including the canvas and colors used.
This is a very nice little painting with wonderful step by step instructions.
The Big List of Artist Resources
The following is a list of art instruction and resource websites for artists, from around the Internet. This list is by no means complete. I will be adding to it as I find more websites. If you know of any other sites not listed here please send me an email and I will review the website and possibly add it to this list. Thanks.
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Interview With Artist Linda Monk
“When I approach a new painting I already have the idea worked out. I do not experiment whilst painting on canvas.
I can see clearly in my mind how I want the painting to look and all the colours I wish to achieve. When I sit down at my easel I have to empty my head of any thoughts that might drain on my creativity. I try to feel calm and focused in order to produce a good painting.”
Be sure to check out Linda’s Artwork at her website at the following URL: http://www.art-lindamonk.co.uk/
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