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The Colour Wheel: Warm versus Cool

Colour is in our lives. We are surrounded by colour and we think and talk about colours and their effects all the time. We can’t even serve a meal without making sure we have the right mix of colours on our plates. Images of paintings by Anne Newman

Urban Landscape

Suburban Night Life Continued

Suburban Night Life

Light

Light in its many Shades

Introducing to you some thoughts about the importance of light in a painting. Image: Moonlight Over Thacher Island by Stefan Mierz

Light

More on the Use of Light by Caravaggio, Turrell & others

Artsy on Caravaggio, Turrell and Others and the way they revolutionised the way light is used in art.

Patterns

Patterns in Paintings

This post is especially directed at those of you who are learning to paint though hopefully everyone will gain something from the content. Contains paintings by naive artist Antonio Ligabue, Emmy Lou Packard and Anne Newman.

Techniques

Troublesome Tangents in paintings

Tangents occur where two lines touch each other. They are of course essential in mathematics. But in painting they can cause all kinds of problems and can ruin your painting. If two lines meet in a composition the viewer can become confused with the ambiguity

Drawings

I Can't Draw!

Nearly everyone thinks that you have to be an expert drawer to be able to paint great pictures. But it depends greatly on the type of paintings you want to produce. Sharing a little about Ned Kelly.

Techniques

Multiple views of the same subject

Monet painted a series on Rouen Cathedral (Normandy), not so much to get the image right as to show off this glorious cathedral in its many moods. There are over 30 paintings in all. (Image: claudemonetgallery.org)

How to Draw and Paint

Which Angle?

Discussing which angle of a subject is best to represent in a painting.

Childrens Art

Feature Artist: Charlotte

Charlotte and I spoke about the concept she had in her MindStudio before commencing the painting. What amazed me was that when I started to speak about having images in you mind she agreed and described many of the MindPictures she has.

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