Drawing

Understanding perspective and size

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Wandering why my perspective are always wrong when I draw a picture from my mind.
While doing my last drawing something happened that I never had before. Or at least I’ve never realized this.
The brown band at the right of the drawing is supposed to be a wall. While drawing it I realized that I didn’t [...]

Drawing

751

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Recognizing the feelings that have to do with drawing enables me to draw.
The series about what I learn in cognitive behavior therapy consist of the following parts:

Cognitive behavior therapy
Strong anonymous feelings
751

Although we’re not yet there, I asked the psychiatrist whether a strong tingling feeling in your body is a happy feeling.
He was not sure. [...]

Blogging

Show your art

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Describing why I started the Art showcase Blog Carnival.
Anyone who has ever started a blog knows that it is very hard to find your audience. You tell your friends. You link to your site from your social bookmarking site. You try to digg yourself.
But with all your efforts you may be lucky if you can [...]

Art sites

War of God

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Illustrations by Andy Parkart and drawings and paintings by Jason Courtney.
Illustrations by Andy Parkart
The nice thing about blog done by animation artist is that they usually have a few really nice drawings.
This is especially true for Andy Parkart. He has done some of the marketing illustrations for the playstation 2 game “War of God”. Although [...]

Art sites

More ladies

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Dan Freund manipulated images, Tina Blondell and Louie Metz paintings.
Dan Freund playing with images
I don’t agree with Dan Freunds quote of Andy Warhol that art is what you can get away with. Although it might be true for someone as famous as Andy.
Playing around with image manipulations might not be art but if you do [...]

Art sites

Painting in the street video

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When talking about street paintings people usually think about Julian Beever. But although he might be the most famous, he isn’t the only one.
Tonight I have a little video about an other street painter; Kurt Wenner.
Kurt Wenner - Masterpieces in Chalk pt1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_go4_XbUSmw

Kurt Wenner - Masterpieces in Chalk pt2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_EwmHiNgmE

Kurt Wenner - Masterpieces in Chalk pt3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKme3LcjyVY

Art sites

Perfecting your art

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Paintings by Hidemi Tada and Rod Buckle and drawings by George Cwirko-Godycki.
Hidemi Tada’s study of old masters
Sometimes I come across site from artist at which they ordered there work in chronological order.
On the first page you’ll find there first painting, on the second page their second and so on. Of course usually you don’t look [...]

Personal

Strong anonymous feelings

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Realizing how I deal with feelings that I don’t recognize.
The series about what I learn in cognitive behavior therapy consist of the following parts:

Cognitive behavior therapy
Strong anonymous feelings
751

Some times I feel

a kind of tingling white noise going through my body. It’s actually quite a nice feeling but I don’t know by what it is caused. [...]

Personal

In memorandum George

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Saturday last I was told that George had died.
To be honest I had to think for a few moments who he was. “You know that big strong bold guy with the motorcycle”.
I knew.
In my world there are two kind of people:
Some people walk into your favorite bar or you place of work and except when [...]

Personal

Cognitive behavior therapy

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A new therapy is going to influence the way I draw.
The series about what I learn in cognitive behavior therapy consist of the following parts:

Cognitive behavior therapy
Strong anonymous feelings
751

The last 25 years I’ve seen the inside of many an psychiatrists office. Talking about my feelings they tried to help me with all the problems I [...]

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