Tag: art education
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Museums In The 21st Century: The Invisible Intimacy Of Public Palaces
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Museums have always been magical places to me. Every room allows us to enter a bardo or in-between world that bridges the artist and ourselves. The emotions held by the artist while creating, remain in the artwork forever. To stand in front of a painting in which the artist has mastered the “flow” allows the viewer to…
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Color And Energy: What Our Preferences Reveal To The Trained Third Eye
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My Mother was a product of color conditioning. She believed “pink was for girls, blue was for boys”. About the time I was ready for my “big girl bed”, she hired a decorator to outfit a canopy bed, complete with matching dust ruffles, pillows, and drapes, in pink and white checked gingham. I stood looking at…
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The Female Artist Model: Malice In Wonderland
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Coming off the Women’s March and in the wake of the #MeToo movement, I would be remiss if I did not address the darker side of how female art models have been viewed and treated in history. As in all things professionally, there seems to be separate standards for men and women. In Sarah Phillips…
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The Artist Model: The Muse Behind The Magic
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An interview with model John A. Carrasco In North America there is a romanticized image of the professional artist’s model. Movies and books are inclined to feed that image by projecting sexy nymphets and oversexed painters. The reality is modeling requires intense concentration in addition to immense physical and emotional control. Artist’s models are not…
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Colored Pencil: A New Look At An Emerging Medium
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In the world of art, colored pencils as a medium continue to be regarded as the new kids on the block. They’ve got the attention of a lot of people but still sit alone at at the drawing table waiting to be joined. Colored Pencils for art were introduced in 1924 by Faber-Castelland Caran d’Ache. There are…
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Drawing: The Line Between Real And Illusion
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Learning to draw trains us to see the world through our own eyes and not through the filters of the mind. Our minds delete, distort,and generalize through processing filters. People who can’t draw have not learned to see what they are looking at. Drawing is a skill set that can be taught. It is not…
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Gage Taylor, California Visionary Artist and My Art Master from a World before the Internet
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Tropical Dream has been part of my private art collection for over two decades. I apprenticed as a painter with Gage Taylor for 4 years, served as an USIA Art Ambassador with him for the US State Department, and we collaborated professionally on canvas for many years under the signature Taylor Dana. In his lifetime,…
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How To Sell An Old Or Valuable Painting
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They were once known as the Three D’s of the auction world: Death, Divorce, and Debt. Auction houses have traditionally obtained their best merchandise as a result of these three disasters. Unfortunately, due to the economic times we live in, the Three D’s have evolved. We now have The Five D’s of Auction Houses and…
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In Art Or Music, Never Fight Your Materials
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A few years ago a 30 year old friend of mine told me he was finally going to buy a guitar and take lessons. He went on to add, “it would just be a cheap one in case he didn’t like it or wasn’t good at it.” As an avid supporter of the arts, I…
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Art Copyright: Image Protection For Artists In A Land of Digital Thieves
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How many times have artists been told that our art is protected by copyright as long as we sign it? Perhaps you’ve heard it will be safe if it is signed with a copyright symbol? A favorite urban myth is that we are legally protected if we send the image by certified mail to ourselves…