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78Jack Vettriano's The Singing Butler - My Take
Twenty years ago, a struggling actress attended a photoshoot with other models in a London Studio. The shoot was for reference pictures for The Illustrator's Figure Reference Manual, a collection to be used...
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79Dali's Christ of Saint John of the Cross - My Take
The 16th century Spanish mystic St John of the Cross had a vision that he had translated onto paper. He had drawn the crucixion from an unusual angle and when Salvador Dali saw this drawing, he was inspired....
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79Dali's Crucifixion - My Take
Dali's paintings make a great intro to surrealism and modern art. Look at this one. If not for the cubes, Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) would look, at first glance, like an old master's piece. Surrealism is...
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66How to Draw 5 Minute 'Moving' Pictures!
This is how I made the pictures move in my book, 'Grandma's Eyes.' This is a great way you can entertain kids and even adults. When they see the pictures move like magic, they are sure to be impressed. That...
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80Photoshop Tutorial 1: How to Convert Your Photos into Watercolor Illustrations
First, let's look at the simplest way of doing it, to get you started. I'm not insulting your intelligence, only making it so simple that someone who hasn't worked in photoshop till now also can follow. So...
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70Color Part 9 - The Science and Logic of Color
“Thought, as we have so far described it, is what it is by virtue of becoming all things, while there is another which is what it is by virtue of making all things: this is a sort of positive state like...
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64Picasso's The Rest - My Take
I can't analyse this picture. I can't tell you why these strokes of pigment on canvas combine to create an ambience of sensousness and vulnerability, why this is visual poetry, a visual song, one that...
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75The Last Supper : Learn composition from Great Artists
The Last Supper - Leonardo Da Vinci 1. The Position of Jesus Jesus is placed right at the centre of the picture. Naturally your eye will fall on the central figure. He is also framed by the window to form a...
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69Flaming June - My take
Can you imagine a ball of fire at rest? Oxymoronish, but that's what the subject of the painting is. Is this picture dynamic or static? It is obviously a subject of serenity and repose, but why is it titled...
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83Color Part 6 Orange, Purple and Brown
“Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.” – Kandinsky Orange, he means, is vibrant, but shouts less than red. An aesthetic compromise for some colour schemes. Orange is the colour of the...
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