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Until now, I had to rack my brain to think of what instructional book to recommend for a student who wants to learn perspective. No longer. ... -
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In 1944, illustrator Tom Lovell (1909-1997) joined the U.S. Marines with the hope that he would be assigned as a combat artist. He ended up ... -
James Tissot (French, 1836-1902) painted this image of the journeying magi as part of a large collection of Biblical paintings that he did ... -
Blog reader Aaron Becker created the bestselling picture book Journey . He told me that he builds digital maquettes before doing his finis... -
For many centuries young artists have trained by drawing together from sculptures and diagrams. This etching by Odoardo Fialetti (1573-1638)... -
In 1949, ten members of the faculty of the Famous Artists School correspondence course were commissioned to paint their interpretation of Sa... -
This photograph shows three spheres with varying surfaces. The one on the left is matte, the one in the middle is glossy, and the one on the... -
Augustus Osborne Lamplough (1877-1930) was a British painter known for his evocative watercolors of north Africa. His paintings of Egypt, Mo... -
One of the inspirations for the fantasy island of Dinotopia is a real place called North Sentinel Island. North Sentinel Island (left) and ...
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