What is it?
Well, this week's "technique" isn't a difficult one to understand by any means, but it's still plenty of fun to come across, and well worth a post! All kinds of art can be depicted in a painting-- sculpture, architecture, jewelry, pottery, ...
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What is it?
Welcome back to Technique Tuesdays! After high demand, we decided to revive the blog series with new discussions on techniques, genres, and art history. With that said, we would love for our readers to participate in this series, as well. If ...
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What is it?
Simply put, a nocturne is a painting of a night scene. James Abbott McNeill Whistler was the first to apply the term to paintings (it is originally a descriptor of a piece of music whose composition is evocative of nighttime) and in art ...
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Today's Technique Tuesday post is going to take a look at an aspect of art creation that many art appreciators easily forget--the surface under the paint!
Here we have pictured just a few examples of the many different types of surfaces fine ...
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What is it?
This week's Technique Tuesday subject is not a new concept for anyone (particularly in today's "selfie" filled world!). But not only is the self-portrait is an important exercise for an artist to undertake, it is also significant to view as ...
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Remember the Technique Tuesday post where we took a look at chiaroscuro? Today's post is going to take a look at a very cool technique, closely related to chiaroscuro: tenebrism.
What is it?
Tenebrism, like chiaroscuro, is all about the use of ...
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What is it?
Today's featured technique is the dry brush technique. Like last week's technique, the multi-loaded brush, this technique deals with the way that the artist loads their brush before applying it to the canvas. With the dry brush technique, ...
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