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06/15/2025

Look at reference of art in the style you want to do. Look at what the other artists do and think about why it works. Maybe even try to copy them - just as a way of learning. It’s a time honored way of teaching yourself.

Life and depth is all about the light. Where does it fall? How does it affect the color? What are the shadows like? Other things like proportion, perspective, etc, are important, but how “flat” an artwork looks is entirely about light and shadow, or the lack of it.

Lastly, there are some amazing short videos out there with not only art tips, but lots of short classes on all kinds of topics. You may want to check some of those out. For example, if you were on YouTube you might try searching “YouTube Art School” or “light and shadow tutorial” or something like that. I wish I’d had that when I was a young artist, it’s a fantastic resource.

06/14/2025

There’s a sketch of a cloudy sky by Constable in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It’s the size of a postcard, and it immediately draws your eye from the minute you walk into the room because it is so beautifully painted. Size has nothing to do with quality, and technique will only take you so far. Fine art is a matter of technique plus vision, and the ability to communicate with your viewer. Constable did plenty of large scale paintings, but that tiny, painterly sketch is absolutely superb.

As Kathleen has declared and I have personally experienced, do not create anything with a Sharpie that you want to last....
06/14/2025

As Kathleen has declared and I have personally experienced, do not create anything with a Sharpie that you want to last. Once, in a fit of creative expression, I decorated my newly painted bedroom in a veritable pantheon of wonderful cartoons. It was sheer bliss until my mom came home.

I died the seven deaths of artistic devilry and was banished to hell for all eternity.

When it became time (several years later) to move out of that house, it took three coats of shellac before that stuff would stop bleeding through. All had faded to mottled shades of brown. Against the tawny earth color of my walls, it was frankly the most hideous thing you could imagine. It did serve one particular advantage - my mom never set foot in the room since I painted it.

The pigment in Sharpie pens isn’t meant to be durable for the long-term, and colors fade, quickly in fact by comparison. Even black. The “permanency” is that they are resistant to fading, rubbing off or erasing - resistant being the given word. Just like water-resistant is not waterproof. You may get some color shift first, black loses darkness, becomes lighter, some I’ve seen become reddish. They are not a good choice at all for fine art. They fade because they are alcohol-based. Any exposure to light will start the fading. Doesn’t even have to be direct light, simply sitting on a table away from a window is enough light to cause fading. They may last longer than regular markers but they aren’t the archival and lightfast quality that fine art requires.🥰

There are no inks of any kind that are archival. Even though I have read artists’ going on and on about how the inks the...
06/14/2025

There are no inks of any kind that are archival. Even though I have read artists’ going on and on about how the inks they use will last - they will not. Binders in inks simply are not strong enough.

Use only conventional oil and acrylic paints if you want your work to endure - and be wary of watercolors - again, the binder, water, is not strong enough. Even the really fine qualty watercolors are not archival, especially the blues.

Nothing lasts forever. Everything on earth fades, including us. So we are always talking about the rate of fade. This is part of what one pays for with more expensive paints. But NEVER use sharpie pens for art. Stick with oils and acrylic for fine art.

If you don’t know how to use them, take classes. If you aren’t willing to do this, go find something selse to do for a living. You have to pay your dues, no matter what you do. At least the end result is worthwhile in the art world.🧐

First, the “great masters” already did it. The world of art centers around constant variety and the “shock of the new”. ...
06/13/2025

First, the “great masters” already did it. The world of art centers around constant variety and the “shock of the new”. If everyone was content to simply produce material in the manner of the masters of the past….. Art in general would be pretty boring.

Second, there are in fact numbers of artists producing work which is every bit on the same level of the old masters. It just doesn’t get much public attention.

When the media is concerned with art at all, it’s concerned with that “shock of the new” material…. Something spectacular and strange… Like the sawed-in-half shark carcass suspended in a tank. “Look how weird modern art is!”

You never see any media coverage of people turning out very high-quality representative art …. It’s just not “news worthy”.

Finally the fine-art “world” of collectors and exhibitions and collections and museums and prestigious galleries is very fad-driven. Pick up any book on art history and this becomes apparent. A few artists, or even one, come up with the “next great thing” and then dozens of others will try their hand at it…. And then it fades away to be replaced by the “next great thing.”

A country that will take their neighbor to court because of a dog barking at night, spilling coffee in their lab and sui...
06/13/2025

A country that will take their neighbor to court because of a dog barking at night, spilling coffee in their lab and suing the store that made it, rather than taking responsibility of their own actions. It’s a country based on the value of a dollar and how fast and much you can make or get in a courtroom.

A school system that will cut music and art programs before football and the athletic programs…simply because of revenue.

It has became a society of “there is no such thing as bad art” having zero respect for the masters it holds. New York will house a piece of work that will be a white canvas with a red dot in the center and price it at thousands of dollars, explaining to people who question it, it’s too deep and sophisticated for you to understand.🤓

A country of corrupt politicians, under the table deals, lobbyists that influence laws for the wealthy and school systems that produce generations of young adults who have never seen a Renoir, Monet, or a Michelangelo. Young adults who have never read a classic novel, who have no idea of Homer, Hemingway, Dickens, or Mark Twain.😍

06/13/2025

I usually start with a horizon line and a vanishing point. objects in the distance are deceptively small. the details should be sized appropriately to give the impression of depth. closer objects will cover up more distant ones and the detail should be more pronounced. objects in the near field will block out anything that is further away from the view. these are the basic ideas of perspective. this concept was re-discovered in the late thirteenth century. the Greeks and romans knew something about it but it was lost knowledge for 1200 years after the collapse of their civilizations. practice by drawing the view out of your bedroom window. draw the far away things first and the closer ones last. start with dark areas and finish with light ones. 😍

There are several reasons to this question, all of which look so sad and pathetic for America. Civilizations for thousan...
06/12/2025

There are several reasons to this question, all of which look so sad and pathetic for America. Civilizations for thousands of years have measured the culture and sophistication of countries, kingdoms, and societies by their fine arts…sadly America has fallen short of their score of culture and sophistication.

The US and many other countries have become cultures of instant gratification with microwave dinners, meats pre-marinated and packaged ready for the oven, double meat whoppers with supersized sodas. A society that measures a man by his bank account and credit score over his character and honesty. A society that is more impressed with mass produced laser copies of a sculpture that can be purchased cheaply that a one of a kind hand carved sculptures.

We have created a society that respects money more than life. A society that works 12–14 hrs a day, then four more hours on their cell phones and lap tops, to “close the deal” and make more money. People who have nature scenes on their office computers but have spent little to no time on a mountain breathing the clean crisp air blowing through the leaves😎

06/12/2025

In painting, like another medium. Watercolor is not as famous as others. But there is also a fact that if you handle watercolor very well, you can easily do the painting in all other mediums.

But watercolor has some weak points ...or its own ego.

If you have to keep it for a long time then it is very expensive, it requires quality art materials.

You have to make the painting carefully, less likely to fix your mistake.

Its blur increases with time.😍

To compare to another medium, the watercolor is less shiny to attract visitors from a long distance.

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