When I first learned straight-line block-in drawing, in a workshop with Juliette Aristides in 2007, I felt like dark clouds had parted and a golden ladder had descended, leading to drawing abilities I never before thought I could attain. I felt like I had been given a tool like fire, […]
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Don’t Let the Holidays Derail Your Art Practice — Caryl Fine Art
Let Things Slip a Little—Temporarily Think about the way that the holidays upend your normal eating habits. It’s perfectly natural to be eating and drinking things that are not part of your usual diet, such as egg nog, cookies, and pie. But these treats can be a fun break from […]
How (and where) to practice collage art
1 of my most important beliefs about collage art is that it is not a talent, but a skill. This usually means that the extra you do it, the far better you get. But how do you practice collage, and in which can you discover routines to enable you? Before […]
Sun Woo on how her nomadic childhood inspires her painting practice
This early engagement with know-how also right informs Sun’s current method to painting, which incorporates equally classic and electronic procedures. “Befriending machines as companions and finding home in equally physical and digital worlds played a particular function in my formative decades, because we normally need boundaries to deal with ourselves […]