March 4, 2008
For anyone who is interested in developing their drawing skills pay a visit to ArtDemonstrations.com as the site is a blog in which the author collates together links to tutorials, instructional material and art demonstrations on the web.
June 17, 2007
I have been poking around the in the journals of artist John Copeland. The pages of his visual journals contain an observed life expressed in drawing. The page spreads range from bleak and dark to the joyful.
No mater the drawing medium the pages can be plastered with gesso, dripped with ink, elements of collage incorporated or touched with watercolour the imagery is honest and never sentimental. Grab a cuppa, settle back and take a peek inot the mind of this artist.
June 10, 2007
The site Under Cover Artists’ Sketchbooks has been put online to accompany an exhibition of the same name which was on display at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum last year.
The exhibit focuses on 10 sketchbooks. The sketchbooks of Edward Burne-Jones, Benjamin Champney, Henri-Edmond Cross, Jacques-Louis David, Paul Feeley, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Sanford Gifford, George Grosz, Frederic Leighton, and John Singer Sargent are featured and each page spread is reproduced on the site.
It is unfortunate that these glimpse’s into the artist at work are often broken up as many of them have been disbound and sold as individual sheets. Grab yourself a cuppa and browse the site and listen to podcast by Miriam Stewart, curator of the exhibition, as it’s great.
Artists have used sketchbooks for centuries, entrusting travel sketches, figure studies, compositional ideas, and notes of every kind to their pages. Designed to be easily portable, sketchbooks are often kept in a pocket, and offer an unusually personal glimpse of the artist at work. Leafing through sketchbooks can result in a disconcerting sense of having invaded the artist’s privacy, as if one were reading a diary or looking over a shoulder. In addition to drawings, notes and addresses, doodles and train schedules, sketchbooks can bear the familiar curve of the artist’s body, the mark of his or her hand. While sketchbooks are often small, some are capacious, allowing broad, expansive sketching.
Found with thanks via Notebookism
June 7, 2007
An online interactive introduction to Colour Theory hosted at Brown University is a valuable online resource.
Information on both electronic and pigment-based colour theory, colour mixing models and colour contrast theories are covered. Also included on the site is a bibliography of books on colour theory.
The technology that drives the site is Java applets so the user can explore various aspects colour theory by interaction and discover for themselves aspects of colour theory. Try it out you will see what I mean.
Thanks for the link goes to Linn of the Embroideress.
March 15, 2007
BibliOdyssey has featured digitized images of a book of watercolour sketches of Burmese life recorded by a local artist in 1897. The illustrations are accompanied by a description written by a missionary.
The book is held online at the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford titled ‘Watercolour Paintings of Burmese Life’
[Note click ‘Open Item’ to navigate through the book]
