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Artist of the Month: Sarah Siltala: Capturing Utter Stillness

This New Mexico artist slowly builds up transparent glazes of oil colors to create still lifes and landscapes with luminous, vibrant, and subtle textures.

Ali Cavanaugh's "Doubtful"

In the fall 2008 issue of Watercolor magazine, we explored how Ali Cavanaugh discovered a clay-covered panel that accepts watermedia and helps her create figure paintings. We offer an example of her technique in this demonstration of Doubtful.

Oil Critique: "Self-Portrait"

Alter values to add more volume to the head in a portrait. Sponsored by Blick Art Materials.

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Letters on Landscape Painting

Asher B. Durand's "Letters on Landscape Painting" from the mid-1800 publication The Crayon are today considered an invaluable source of information for landscape painters, offering advice that is as evergreen as it is enlightening. Here we present an excerpt of a letter from 1855, in which Durand advises artists to spend considerable time studying and drawing from nature before painting it.

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The Self in Contemporary Self-Portraits

Several established contemporary artists have approached the subject of self-portraiture in different ways, depicting who they are or who they wish to be at various times in their lives.

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Work by Ralph Albert Blakelock at the National Academy Museum

The goal of this exhibition at the National Academy Museum, in New York City, is to dispel the image of Ralph Albert Blakelock as a "mad genius," by demonstrating the value of his work and its influence on modern and contemporary artists.



Ask the Experts: Two Types of Line Drawings

Read our expert's answer to this question: What, if any, is the difference between an outline drawing and a contour drawing?

 
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