All About History

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While architects of the stamp of Donato Bramante were designing neoclassical churches and public buildings in Rome, Milan, Florence and other Italian cities, in the north, Gothic style reached its apogee in the High Gothic. The magnificent, graceful

Artist's Palette

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By Lance Ross From cave paintings through the Middle Ages to the Classical period in the 1700s, most artists aimed to make their work look as realistic as possible and employed a large amount of skilled techniques to achieve that result. The best gai

Artist's Back to Basics

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Meaghan Roberts Born in 1990 and raised predominantly on a farm in the New South Wales countryside, and now residing in Tasmania, Meaghan’s family raised an extensive variety of animals, and occasionally raised and rehabilitated sick and injured wild

Artists & Illustrators

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For those of you willing to explore painting without drawing, I want you to paint a three-quarter view of a person as I have done, but quickly this time. Find a smaller piece of paper (ideally a Bockingford NOT paper), a willing sitter, and a set of

Artists & Illustrators

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Kent-based artist Patrick Wilkins had only been an associate member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art for a couple of months when he scooped one of the top prizes at the society’s centenary exhibition, Draw 19, in October. His Foolish Handshake pict

Fine Art Connoisseur

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CARMEN DRAKE (b. 1964) has an affinity for subjects with a unique origin and a storied history. As a nature lover and former owner of a North Carolina shop (C.R. Drake Mercantile) that specialized in primitive antiques, reproduction furniture, and he

Cottages and Bungalows

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BY KRIS CHRISTENSEN PHOTOGRAPHY BY KRIS CHRISTENSEN AND BRET GUM From the masterworks hung in gilded frames in the grand halls of European palaces to the intimate vignettes of our ancestors’ faces arranged on modest mantel tops, decorating with portr

The Threepenny Review

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HAPPY DISCOVERY: I’m reading a novel in which every character’s got a Holbein portrait. I know these people, have seen them everywhere—in the Frick, in the National Gallery, of course in reproductions. Thomas Cromwell’s mug, lit by the light of a clo

Fine Art Connoisseur

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Eleventh Street Arts and Salmagundi Club Long Island City and Manhattan eleventhstreetarts.com and salmagundi.org through February 1, then February 3–March 1 Curated by the artist Dale Zinkowski, The Red Show is an exhibition of 23 still life, figu

Artist's Back to Basics

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With a garden full of blossoming roses, camellias and azaleas, South Australian artist John McCartin never needs to look for inspiration to paint. Red brown chooks and white ducks fossick free range in nearby farmyards. Around the corner are country

Artists & Illustrators

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In 2018, I sent a message to a group of friends and contacts on Instagram, pondering the fact that there was, to my knowledge, as yet no independent society to celebrate or give voice to contemporary British portraiture. I asked my artist colleagues

Artists Magazine

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The individuals range in age from 90 to 104 in Janet Boltax’s Aging in America series, a collection of 23 oil portraits featuring full-frame faces—some smiling, talking or mid-laugh; others pensive or serious, even stubborn. “I don’t really flatter p

Fine Art Connoisseur

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In 1893 the 31-year-old, London-based artist James Jebusa Shannon (1862–1923) made his American debut in the British Section of the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition with three portraits, two of which portrayed the American expatriate artist Georg

Artists Magazine

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When I first saw, as a freshman in art school, the portrait drawings of Hans Holbein the Younger, I immediately began to wonder how the artist could have captured likenesses with such apparent accuracy in so few lines. Over the years I was fortunate

Artists Magazine

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commissions are a sensitive business. Some artists consider them impositions on their artistic integrity. Others love the steady work but dread conversations with the client about the project. Yet others enthusiastically absorb clients’ suggestions a

Artist's Back to Basics

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I first decide what it is I am attempting to achieve. I need to interview the subject and decide what characteristics of the subject I wish to express. I need to consider the attitude/disposition, facial features, clothing/uniform; and the social, pr

Artist's Palette

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Edited by Trevor Lang Remia Montayre Homuk is originally from the Philippines town of Sindangan, Zamboanga . After moving to Sydney in 1984, she married and continued to follow her clear artistic destiny. This lady is a natural artist. She was born w

The Pastel Journal

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For as long as she can remember, Claudia Biçen has been fixated on answering the question, “How should I live my life?” As a child in England, Biçen was blessed with an inherent ability to draw. Her mother and grandmother were both creative in their

Artist's Palette

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Born in Queensland, Marcia Rea commenced painting full-time during 1983. She designed neon signs after leaving school, before working as an architectural model maker. She was very interested in art from early childhood, so the natural decision to und

Southwest Art

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OFTEN MOVED by nature’s beauty, Drew Keilback doesn’t need to travel far for inspiration. His winning entry was inspired by a walk one early spring day, just after a snowfall, along the Fraser River near his home in British Columbia. Using various to

Artists & Illustrators

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Why did you enter Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year? I had never watched the TV show and I didn’t really know what I was getting in to, but my godson is a big fan and he nagged me to enter. I didn’t think it would come to anything – I thought that

Australian How To Paint

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Since being introduced to Genesis paints three years ago, I’ve used no other medium. I found the simplicity of achieving subtle blending (required in my style of portrait painting) a surprise and joy which I take full advantage of. I don’t use China

Fine Art Connoisseur

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Yuqi Wang (b. 1958) is looking for the right word. A vintage recording of the great tenor Franco Corelli singing Neapolitan love songs is playing on the phonograph in his Red Hook (Brooklyn) studio, a quiet, contemplative space shot through with beam

Artists & Illustrators

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People like faces. Babies are drawn to them without knowing why, whereas adults use them to engage and relate. Faces tell us so much about a person, from expressions revealing one’s inner thoughts in that very instant, to wrinkles and laughter lines

Capture

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Although this type of portraiture is very much on trend right now, few do it well. The photographer shows a maturity in their work way beyond that of an emerging photographer. The series of images do what good photographs should do – they engage the

Artist's Palette

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Since being introduced to Genesis paints three years ago, I’ve used no other medium. I found the simplicity of achieving subtle blending (required in my style of portrait painting) a surprise and joy which I take full advantage of. I don’t use China

The Pastel Journal

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If it weren’t for the modern-day clothing cues, you could be fooled into thinking Svetlana Cameron’s portraits are from another time. Intimate and meticulously painted, they have the steady gravity of an old master’s work. Skin tones glow radiantly,

Art New Zealand

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Jack Trolove paints directly and boldly, slashing layers of thick oil paint onto canvas. His process is tangible and exhilarating to observe for it seems to happen as we watch, especially when viewed close up. Marks of the palette knife are left unre

Amateur Photographer

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When we look at a portrait, who is it we are actually seeing? Our first instinct is to suggest that the answer is obvious: we are seeing a person. But the real question is, which version of that person are we seeing? Are we truly seeing an honest dep

Digital Camera World

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There is a quietness and delicate simplicity about the image. At first there is recognition of the style of traditional portrait painting, then the hint of modernday influence in the head-dress begins a welcome dance back and forth while studying the