Sharpie September at Lake Mira Mar, San Diego, CA

4 days ago | Urban Sketchers | 2 articles

I created this drawing with a Sharpie Ulta Fine Marker and watercolor while attending a paint out with Inland Painters. This is the dock at Mira Mar Lake, a reservoir located...
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Lake Mira Mar - Sharpie September

5 days ago | Arty Velarde

I created this drawing with a Sharpie Ulta Fine Marker and watercolor while attending a paint out with Inland Painters. This is the dock at Mira Mar Lake, a reservoir located...
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BASE Orlando: Beach Bash Body Paint Art Show

8 days ago | Analog Artist Digital World

BASE Orlando founder, Mandi Ilene Schiff celebrated her birthday at the10th BASE show, at DRIP (8747 International Dr Suite 102, Orlando, Florida.) Painting for over a decade...
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Recently Digitized Journals Grant Visitors Access to Leonardo da Vinci's Detailed Engineering Schematics and Musings

13 days ago | Colossal

Codex Forster II , Leonardo da Vinci, late 15th - early 16th century, Italy. Museum no. Forster MS.141. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London The Victoria and Albert Museum in...
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Elisabetta Sirani. Supported her family through her art and opened a school for other female artists

21 days ago | Chez Namaste Nancy

Anyone who thinks that all great classical artists were men is wrong. Here's Elisabetta Sirani who, in the 1600s, depicted women throwing their rapists into wells, wielding the...
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Crossconnectmag: Wonderfully Strange Oil Painting and Drawing

27 days ago | Cross Connect Magazine

Crossconnectmag : Wonderfully Strange Oil Painting and Drawing from Alessandro Sicioldr Sicioldr is an italian painter and illustrator born in 1990 in Tarquinia, living and...
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A Few Tips for Painting Poppies

1 month ago | Kem Studios

'Taos Poppies' 6x6 pastel ©Karen Margulis available $95 I love to paint poppies and have discovered some tips to achieve a more painterly flower. I have blogged about painting...
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Von Zügel's Animal Paintings from Life

1 month ago | Gurney Journey

Heinrich von Zügel (1850-1941) made oil studies of cattle from life, rather than painting from dead animals, as Rungius and Stubbs typically did. This required the assistance...
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How to Use a Chipped Pastel

1 month ago | Kem Studios

'Purple Haze' 36x24 pastel ©Karen Margulis sold My favorite purple pastel had a chip. It was just a little nick on one of the edges. But when I made a broad sweeping mark I...
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First celebrity portrait

1 month ago | Nora MacPhail

9x12" - charcoal drawing with watercolourWell, as I stated in my last post, I've been working towards getting a likeness while still keeping things painterly. I'm not actually...
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Emma Elliott presents new marble sculptures at on form 18

Emma Elliott is one of forty sculptors selected for on form 18, a biennial exhibition of sculpture in stone at Asthall Manor in the Cotswolds. She joins world renowned and... Read more ...

Caricature Example Thieves

There's yet another lively discussion at the International Society of Caricature Artists Facebook page going on, this time about street, fair, theme park, etc. (known... Read more ...

World's Oldest Drawing?

Colored marks on a stone found a cave in South Africa may be the oldest drawing in the world. National Geographic reports that the red-ochre lines are 73,000 years old, nearly... Read more ...

The Shakes 30th Anniversary Gala

The Shakes pulled out all the stops to create an amazing 30th Anniversary Gala this year. Gorgeous blue and pink curtains were hung at the entrance and a shimmering silver... Read more ...

A Large-Scale Flocked Steel Mural Accented With Live Foliage by Frank Plant

Sculptor Frank Plant creates large-scale sculptural drawings of grouped bodies made from flocked steel. One of his most recent pieces, Grow , presents two groups of students... Read more ...

Lawson Wood - part 7

Lawson Wood was born on 23 August 1878 in Highgate, London, the son of landscape artist Pinhorn Wood, and the grandson of architectural artist L.J. Wood. He studied at the... Read more ...

Have You Tried the New Terry Ludwig Pastel Set Yet?

'Along the River's Edge' 9x12 pastel ©Karen Margulis available $165 I have been patiently waiting to try my new pastel set. I know I don't need any more pastels but I do have a... Read more ...

Monday MADness: Penguin Book Unboxing!

My illustrator's copies of MAD's new children's book parody “Don't Let the Penguin Drive the Batmobile” just arrived! The printed book turned out great. It's a 9.25″ square... Read more ...

Sunday Mailbag: Saving Digital Work?

Q: How you save old work? Do you keep layered PSD files? Or do you merge layers to save space, knowing that you will never have to go back and edit them again? A: I used to... Read more ...

MAD Issue 4 Sneak Peek!

MAD has started posting sneak peeks of issue 4 on their Instragram , including this close up of a panel from the feature I worked on. It's their “Halloween” issue, so many of... Read more ...

This is What Fujifilm's ‘Cheap' Medium Format GFX 50R Will Look Like

Fujifilm will reportedly be announcing an “affordable” medium format mirrorless camera called the GFX 50R on September 25th, and now new sketches are giving us a first look at... Read more ...

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