If you’ve been to Madrid, you know the enormous selection of activities and sightseeing treasures the city has to offer you. If you haven’t, make Madrid your travel destination for a touch of the art world. If you’re an art lover like many tourists that travel to Spain, you won’t have far to look to [...]
I’m going to start by saying that I assume you have your pencils, drawing paper and erasers ready, so I’m going to skip all that and plunge right in to show you how you can sketch your horse in just a few minutes.
Yes, I did say in just a few minutes. In fact, it’s important [...]
Here’s some tips for setting up and shooting still life subjects indoors.
1. Use Indirect Natural Light
Position your subject so it’s lit using the natural light from a nearby window. Indirect and soft light is best. If there’s too much direct sunlight coming through the window, cover the window with a white sheet to diffuse the [...]
Still Life is an art term, that refers to a special kind of picture. It represents an arrange of inanimate objects (hence the name) such as a bowl, a cup or fruits. Usually the arrangement is made according to the artist’s purpose. A Still life pencil drawing can be symbolic, with an underlying meaning, or [...]
When it comes to simple basic Still-Life Tabletop Photography, as far as the novice ‘wanna-be-photographer’ is concerned there is often a mental block, when really it’s quite simple, so much so that if you start to do it professionally, after a few years the trick is to stay awake.
I asked UK photographer Phil Selfe why [...]
Getting the background right in the studio can be difficult. The home studio often suffers from lack of space, unsightly background clutter and poor surfaces for lighting. But you can enhance your shots by manipulating the background in the following way:
1. Place a sheet behind the subject that is the color of the background that [...]
French painter Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848 and then moved to Peru with his family when he was only three years old. Growing up in Peru provided much excitement and had a great impact on him as little boy. When he turned 17, he joined the Navy and went to [...]
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As far as oil painting goes it’s not as scary as some people think. If you want to create the visions that are in your head, be it fantasy art warrior women, pictures of cats, drawings of scorpions, or if you hope to one day obtain landscapes still life portrait commissions, whimsical angel drawings, you [...]