Happy affordable Friday! On a Monday. I know. Once again, I’m just so excited to share this and I don’t want the items to sell out so I’m posting early this week. I wanted this affordable Friday to be focused… Read more
Check out oil paintings by Yuji Chaya/ 茶谷雄司 who loves to draw figurative and portrait paintings of woman which are full of emotions and feelings. medianet_width = "600"; medianet_height = "250"; medianet_crid = "656251372"; medianet_versionId = "111299"; (function() { var isSSL… Read more
Episode 3: The Lake at Hever Castle in Kent This is my review of the third episode of the 9th series of Landscape Artist of the Year 2024. As regular readers will know by now, it considers: the location and weather the… Read more
...she will go beyond the given in the way she expresses it, she will really be an artist, a creator who gives meaning to her life by lending meaning to the world. — The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir… Read more
If you draw in line, there’s a principle called line weight hierarchy. Thicker lines seem closer and more important, while thinner lines float to the background.Examples by Charles Dana Gibson, Gustave Doré, and Alphonse Mucha at the link. Read more
The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Is it even possible to take a personal inventory when it looks like the world around you is going off kilter? It’s worth a… Read more
Jeanette custom-made this vest with the v-neck a bit lower so that I can get to my shirt pocket, which always has reading glasses, fountain pen, and pencils in it, for drawing emergencies.The design is based on the Shaped Vest… Read more
The Eras Tour took the world by storm in 2023 and it is not over yet! International dates are booked for this year and several US dates are planned for late 2024. As soon as The Eras Tour began in… Read more