Images such as this, is invaluable to learn how an animal moves. In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge, an emerging photographer, was able to capture the motion of a running horse.
Use “color charts” to stay in the moment & enjoy your materials.
Your thoughts are focused, but the activity is not all-consuming mentally. It is not a heavy cognitively challenge. For me, it’s relaxing…There are no rules. You can do a color chart however you want.
Chicago Skyline: Step-by-step Creating a Painting “en Plein Air” (that means… “outside”)
The morning light would be fleeting so I took a bunch of photos to capture that instant. NOTE: that’s not “cheating”. You can take photos. Use all the technology you want. 🙂Â
Riveting Mission: From a County Fair to Alpaca Farm in Quest for Rug Hooking Success
The little five-year-olds were fearlessly bouncing pogo-stick-like on top of these horses. It was riveting.
How to Paint a Dew Drop in Watercolor
So, when someone asks you, “Dew you know how to paint a dew drop?” Now you can say, “yes”!
Fibonacci intersecting nature and art
For me, the archetypical example of the intersection of art and science (and math) is the sequence of numbers commonly called the “Fibonacci numbers.” By definition it is the sum of the previous two numbers in a series. So, it gets started with 0 and 1, and then picks up speed. Next is 1, then […]
5 Questions to Think Like a Photographer
What are you trying to communicate? Where should the viewer to focus? What makes the image pop?
