Tag: Art
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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 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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Art Censorship: How Social Media Edits Our World View
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With all the horror terrorizing the world, something wonderful happened recently for the arts, and we have the French to thank for it. In a landmark censorship case against art, the French ruled that Facebook can be sued in France for censoring content. Parisian teacher Fréderic Durand-Baissas had his account suspended 5 years ago after he posted…
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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…