Patrick Lawrence's Art Blog and Portfolio
I recently found a inspiring blog I would like you share with all of you. The blog is Michael Naples daily painting blog. Every day since August 06 he has been doing a painting a day. I think its a good example of the dedication … Continue readingDaily Paintings Oringinal Still Life Paintings by Michael Naples
I just found a nice group that has a world wide Sketchcrawl. A sketchcrawl is about having people from different corners of the world join in a day of sketching and journaling and then, thanks to the Internet, having everyone share the results on an … Continue readingSketchCrawl
Our featured artist today is Jeremy Lipking. To me is he one of the best living painters. Below is some of his images, an interview and a link to his site. Links http://www.lipking.com
If you love old paintings like I do then you will love this resource. Wikipedia now has 10,000 + public domain paintings online. Directmedia and Yorck Project were kind enough to make these images available to Wikpedia and the world. http://commons.wikimedia.org
Jean-Léon Gérôme was a great 19th century French orientalist painter, draftsman & sculptor. He was born 11 May 1824 – died 1904. You can see more of his work at the Art Renewal Center.
I just found a nice resource today. You can browse and search 860,000 works of art from UK museums and galleries online. http://www.artfund.org/artsaved/
Here is our second featured artist Jeffrey R. Watts. He is another very talented painter with a nice loose painterly style. You can see more of his work on his site JeffreyrWatts.com.
I found this article today about an art student using abortion as art. Its amazing where the ideas of modern art have taken us. Whats next murdering art students as art? “Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of … Continue readingAbortion as art. This is what art has finally come to.
Howard Pyle was the most influential illustrator in American history. He was a prolific artist, writer and teacher. His students included Olive Rush, N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Elenore Abbott, and Jessie Willcox Smith. If you have not seen his work below is an example … Continue readingFeatured Artist – Howard Pyle
This is a very long post that includes a large list of free art books. … Continue readingFree Art Books – List
This is the first of the free art book posts. I have found that there are many very good art books in the public domain. I will try and list links to them as I get the chance. The first book is The practice of … Continue readingFree Art Books – The practice of oil painting and of drawing as associated with it.
This is the first of our featured artist series of posts. With this series of posts we will shine the spotlight on outstanding artists both alive and dead. So to kick things off we are starting with Morgan Weistling a very much alive artist. Below … Continue readingFeatured Artists – Morgan Weistling
I often get asked whats the best way to learn to draw the figure. The answer is to have the best teachers and to work really hard over a long period of time:) So I hear you say you are ready to put in the … Continue readingBest figure drawing and anatomy lessons and schools.
Having searched far and wide for good information on solvent-free oil painting techniques I thought I would have to give up this dream. Then recently I found Tad Spurgeon’s site. Tad has done has done extensive research into the history of oil mediums and the … Continue readingSolvent-free oil painting methods.
This is a nice video on drawing the head in full value. See all six parts below.
This is a really nice demo by David Jon Kassan. Its condensed down to 8 minutes from the two hours it took live. I always like watching these demos to see how other people work.
You can now find the complete works of John Singer Sargent online for free thanks to JohnSingerSargent.org “John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist. … Continue readingThe Complete Works Of John Singer Sargent
Hello and welcome to Patrick’s Art Blog! This blog will include free art tutorials, tips and courses, art news, book reviews, software reviews and guides to resources etc. And of course I will be including news about the main site and my work.