Watercolour painter walks into a bar… —

If this sounds like the beginning of a particularly poor joke, I fear it may be one at my own expense… …impoverished watercolour painter walks into a swanky restaurant. Sits at the bar. Orders a coffee. Finishes coffee. Orders the bill. Whhaatttt!! Surely somebody somewhere must be joking! £4.44 for a coffee!? The longer story […]

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A giant painter of expressionism: LESSER URY — paintdigi

A MASTERPIECE, IN THE HISTORY OF PAINTING In the midst of this global health crisis, I present these few images to improve your morale: A giant painter of expressionism: LESSER URY Photo source: commons.wikimedia Unter den Linden im Regen (1920) Leo Lesser Ury was a German painter and graphic designer from the Berlin Impressionist Secession. […]

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Expressive Arts Therapy — Couple And Family Counseling

By Kaity Dallas Why Do We Need to Be Aware? Mental health professionals work with a myriad of populations. As long as they are trained and supervised to extend their scope of practice to cover a particular population, one can counsel nearly anyone in the world. One of the populations that is typically under-served are […]

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The Decisive Moment — Beginning Photo Spring 2020

“Life is once; forever.” -Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908-August 03, 2004) An early pioneer in the nascent field of photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson never personally appreciated the label of photojournalist, and viewed himself as a surrealist. He is widely considered to be a pioneer both in photojournalism, and art photography. In 1947, he co-founded Magnum Photos, […]

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Music and Painting — Marina Kanavaki

As a musician and painter I’ve always listened to music while painting… never the other way round though. However, this one is about music moving my hand on canvas and although this was not the music I was listening to when I painted this ‘Character’, it may well had been. In this version too, with […]

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How to come up with more creative creatures — Art & Crit by Eric Wayne

I’m working on developing a bat-person for the next of my more illustrational images, like my Ant Man. Normally, at least up until recently, I’d only do one drawing, and just have at it until I was finished. There’d be tons of editing, tweaking it out, and learning from mistakes, trial and error. But I’d […]

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Creative Strokes! — radhikasreflection

Ideas conceived in the creative mind envisages a vision gestates experimenting contours flirt endless sketches crumpled sheets spectrum of color fills the palette caresses the canvas with strokes bold and beautiful, delicate and sublime a creative blend unfolds prolonged labor finally births an artistic masterpiece!

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Costume Sketches 101 — sketchuniverse

Originally posted on Across the Pond and Back Again: I remember a Costume prof telling me once that you didn’t have to be a great artist to be a great costume designer. You just needed to be able to represent the body and explain how you wanted the cloth to fall on it. Even so…

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