George O’Hanlon wrote an article for Natural Pigments titled Fat Over Lean: Essential Guide to Oil Painting Techniques for Artists (11 August 2024).
Continue reading “Fat Over Lean Rule in Oil Painting”Frank Ryan’s Flesh Tone Color Palette in Oil Painting
Frank Ryan wrote an article for Natural Pigments titled Verona Green Earth for Vibrant Flesh Tones Paints (2 May 2023).
Continue reading “Frank Ryan’s Flesh Tone Color Palette in Oil Painting”H pencils are hard. B pencils are soft. So why are they called B?
Artists use a variety of pencils to get different marks.
2H pencil is hard, 4H pencil is harder, etc.
2B pencil is soft, 4B is softer, etc.
So why aren’t they called H and S pencils?
Continue reading “H pencils are hard. B pencils are soft. So why are they called B?”Visible light is only 0.0035 percent of the electromagnetic spectrum
An article on the U.S. Department of Energy website by the National Nuclear Security Administration titled Visible Light: Eye-opening research at NNSA (17 October 2018) states:
“The entire rainbow of radiation observable to the human eye only makes up a tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum – about 0.0035 percent. This range of wavelengths is known as visible light.”
Continue reading “Visible light is only 0.0035 percent of the electromagnetic spectrum”Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work
Jocelyn Moveck and Matt O’Brien wrote an article for the Associated Press titled Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work (31 August 2023).
Continue reading “Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work”Visual Effects
Drew Magary wrote an article for Defector titled Inside Hollywood’s Visual Effects Crisis.
Continue reading “Visual Effects”Your perception of color depends on the language you speak
A BBC article titled The words that change what colours we see originally appeared on The Conversation. Continue reading “Your perception of color depends on the language you speak”
pseudo-profound bullshit
Jennifer Ouellette wrote an article for Ars Technica titled “Abstract art with ‘pseudo-profound’ BS titles seen as more meaningful“.
History of illustration and propaganda art
D.B. Dowd wrote an article for Hyperallergic titled How Early US Propaganda Grew Out of a Society of Illustrators. Continue reading “History of illustration and propaganda art”
How to Look Great on Video: The Rule of Thirds
Dr. Rick Brinkman wrote an article for the McGraw-Hill Business Blog titled LIGHTS, CAMERA, MEETINGS: How to Look Great on Video. Continue reading “How to Look Great on Video: The Rule of Thirds”
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