When you write every day of the week, it's a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because the more you do anything, the better you get. Let me clarify that statement, though. Practice alone doesn't guarantee you'll get better. The old saying, "Practice makes perfect" is wrong! If you continue to practice the wrong stuff, you will not improve. Practice A better … [Read more...]
Finding a master
There is so much to know and learn - and time is running out! What is the old saying? Art is long and time is short. The lack of information is not a problem anymore. Maybe five hundred years ago finding information was difficult. Then Gutenberg invented the printing press and information became accessible and plentiful. The Internet is unleashing an explosion of data. For … [Read more...]
Better by Design
The Old Masters knew a secret which made their paintings enduring masterpieces. Why do you think, for example, over six million people visit the Louvre every year to see the Mona Lisa? What is it about Leonardo's masterpiece that attracts viewers like moths to a flame? Trusted apprentices The Old Masters taught this secret only to their most trusted apprentices. As a … [Read more...]
Bonus Video Clips
We mentioned last time that we've added a bonus to our Summer Special. (This promotion ends tonight at midnight Pacific Daylight Time). We're going to include a link to some video clips from some of the projects included in this collection. So far we've assembled over half an hour of tips and techniques from Bill, Buck, and Lowell. What we did was match up the projects … [Read more...]
Light!
Light is the most important thing for every artist. Light is always there, in the mountains, in the grass, in the water, out in the open, into the shadow and out of it. As a painter, you have to learn to play with light, to play with colors, and to feel its movement. That’s what makes a complete artist. To see the play of light, to take it inside you, and bring it home to fire … [Read more...]
What We Know
"The only thing I know is that I know nothing." "For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." One of these quotes is attributed to Socrates. The other is to a Chinese philosopher who wrote one of the foundational texts of Taoism. Neither quote is easy to document, yet they contain a nugget of wisdom. The more we think we know, … [Read more...]
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