Sketch it first! Sometimes we artist are stubborn and stupid at times. We work other jobs and have only so much precious time to do our art — the last thing we want to do is spend it drawing a thumbnail sketch. We want to skip the sketch process and get paint onto the canvas. […]
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Pastel birds have interested me since about March last year after seeing some Mike Beeman pastels. Here’s my latest of a Red Cardnal that perched in a bush next to our bird feeders. Step-by-Step Pastel Basically I started out with a brief sketch. On the bird pastels, I usually try to leave the […]
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Serving the greater good is a basic principle of the Dharma or Buddhist philosophy. It’s not unusual for many artists to feel that they are serving a greater good by helping others around them see world issues, or just to see elements of the world they might not otherwise see. Western artists often view art […]
Read More...I soon will be publishing a a newsletter and updating my website. I have a wonderful graphic artist and photographer, Lynelle Mallady, working on some branding and an art critic and curator working on a biography that I will post here later this year. For those new to “branding” think McDonalds or Coke a […]
Read More...This week I’d like to discuss how to create shading using layering. I’ve attached a link to a video that illustrates this better than I can explain it in words. Basically, you want to do exercises using three different grades of pencils and layer each grade with one, two and three layers. This will give […]
Read More...Beginners to drawing often are baffled by the numbers on the ends of drawing pencils, 4B, HB, 2H etc. Quickly anyone making a mark with them understands that some are lighter and some are darker. However, due to variations in manufacturing, the numbers do not always represent what shade of gray they might be. Too […]
Read More...I would be a rich man if I had a dime for every person in a painting workshop that didn’t know how to draw well, but still wanted to paint instead of learning to draw. Drawing is fundamental to all art forms — even abstraction. So why do so many put off learning to draw […]
Read More...As a boy, I held a kitten that had fallen from the hay loft in my hand. I watched helplessly the life drain from it. For anyone who has held life in their hand only to see it disappear, they will know the dichotomy of emotions for when someone of vitality and energy – a […]
Read More...Artists are to blame, in a large part, for the fall of culture and the interest in the arts. Fewer people patronize the arts. Even the new rich from Silicon Valley must be courted, or coerced into spending their new-found wealth on art: it’s not a natural thought process for people of wealth or even […]
Read More...About two months ago I developed a new website, www.avonwaters.com for my serious art. I have since moved my daily posts to www.facebook.com/artbyavon and urge my blog followers to go to my Art Semantics page and like it. I have over 4,000 followers and will post my daily work there. This blog will become a […]
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