Five Steps for Discovering What New Skills Can Bring to Your Art When we talk…
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A 2019 study from Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s School of Design in China examined an often-encountered yet relatively under-examined form…
Having a better look at one of the reasons that Johnson’s moonlit scenes look so much more convincing than paintings…
How training can produce increasingly impressive performance while producing progressively less of the learning it was designed to create. A…
In June 2022, I wrote a short article examining some of the claims surrounding zinc oxide in oil paint systems.…
Dogs, Tricks, and some Grand Claims Despite the old adage about dogs and tricks, nearly thirty years of teaching representational,…
One claim I often find myself resisting is the familiar maxim, “learning to draw is learning to see.” The phrase…
Abstraction, Recognition, and the Visual Brain A few years ago, I created a social media post to see just how…
Most people tend to think of an artwork as a relatively stable object: paper, paint, canvas, panel, frame. The reality,…
Navigating the landscape of learning, where multiple routes can deepen rather than dilute understanding. A Clearing In the foyer of…
In observational drawing and painting, “respect” is often associated with subject matter, tradition, or sincerity of intent. Within the Waichulis…