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I'm sad to report that the great Fred Fixler died yesterday. Fred was an extraordinary artist, teacher, and friend, and one of my mentors. He was the original owner of the California Art Institute, and inspired hundreds of artists in Southern California—several of whom are among the world's best. It amazes me how Fred's influence has prospered. Jeremy Lipking never knew Fred, for instance, but

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After graduation from the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Clayton studied at the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts with Richard Schmid. Clayton’s career began while still at the American Academy, exhibiting at Jody Kirberger’s Talisman Gallery and winning awards from the Midwest Pastel Society, the Palette and Chisel and the Pastel Society of America. He began teaching Saturday

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Today I learned that a friend of mine from may years ago died on May 13, 2009, of a drowning accident on the island of Maui, Hawaii. Her name was Christiane Covington, and she was a lover of motion pictures and the craft of film making; I never knew anyone so passionate about cinema as Christy. We met while working together on Alex Seligman's UCLA graduate student film "Macaroni Casserole," where

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Award winning artist, Jennifer McChristian, was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. From an early age, she knew she wanted to be an artist. Upon completing high school, McChristian began her art education at Dawson’s College in Montreal, Canada. In 1986, she and her family took permanent residency in California, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree with Honors from Otis Art

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Ann Gale (born 1966) is an American figurative painter based in Seattle, Washington. She is known for her portrait paintings, which consist of an accumulation of small color patches expressing the changing light and the shifting position of her models over time. Some of her main influences include Lucian Freud, Alberto Giacometti, and Antonio Garcia López.Gale works from live models and her

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Chelsea James feels that painting is a study of our existence, spirit, and environment, derived from experiences in life. She chooses objects that evoke childhood memories, create situations of atmospheric mystery, and bring visual interest through interaction. She is intrigued by subtle shifts in value and color; yet seeks a personal interpretation of the objects rather than a replication. She

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Award winning painter Monte Rogers is a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. For 30 years he supported his family as a commercial freelance illustrator of books, magazines and advertisements. Monte also taught figure drawing and picture making at the California Art Institute.He began showing and selling his paintings at art shows and galleries and his sell-out shows allowed

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A new technique allows pictures which were later painted over to be revealed once more. An international research team, including members from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and the University of Antwerp (Belgium), has successfully applied this technique for the first time to the painting entitled Patch of Grass by Vincent van Gogh. Behind this painting is a portrait of a

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Ira Glass, host of NPR's excellent program This American Life, offers some excellent advice to those who do any kind of creative work.Thanks to Mano Singham for this link.

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Abram Arkhipov was a Russian artist trained at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Vasily Perov, Aleksey Savrasov, Vladimir Makovsky and Vasily Polenov. He joined the WANDERERS (Peredvizhniki) in 1889 and the Union of Russian Artists in 1903. While indebted to the realist painting of Perov, Arkhipov also gave particular attention to effects of light, rhythm and texture

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Felicia Forte was born in Los Angeles, California. She has lived in Florence, New Orleans, New York and San Francisco. Her influences include Sargent, Vermeer, Duveneck and Whistler. Her mode, primarily, is the portrait. She says of her work:"When I see a portrait, I feel a connection with the subject—there is a thread that runs through time and class. And the tired old man, or the grand lady

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For many years I have had the privilege of calling Max Turner my friend. He is the most skilled artist I have ever known, and continues to inspire -- and awe -- his students and fellow artists alike. You may not have heard of Max, for he is a humble and unassuming fellow. But local artists know who he is. Max is the sculptor's sculptor, whose breadth and quality of work would astound you. He's

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Painting diverse landscapes “en plein air” (in one sitting, on location) is Ed Terpening's passion. California’s hills scattered with oak trees, bay marshes, and of course our beautiful coastline provide him with constant inspiration. He applies his contemporary California Impressionist skills both outdoors and in the studio for larger works. Terpening seeks to capture the essence of a location

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Sunny Apinchapong-Yang was born in Bangkok, Thailand, where his Chinese parents settled after World War II. He arrived in the United States in 1970 where he received his first formal art instruction. He attended Art Center College of Design, and California State University, Los Angeles, earning both B.A and M.A degrees in Fine Arts.In 1977, he began studying painting on scholarship at the Sergei

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These inexpensive yet high quality paint brushes may be purchased through Amazon by clicking here.

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Eolake Stobblehouse was born in 1963 in the small town of Karrebæksminde, Denmark. His father was a house painter, and his mother an artistically inclined bohemian out of Sweden. From early childhood, he exhibited a keen interest in philosophy, technology, and not the least, art. He studied the various techniques and disciplines of fine art avidly, and when he got a camera at age 11, he became

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In each of our lives there are a handful of individuals who made a real impact, who by direct influence or by example helped to explain the world and shape our character. For me, Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman was such a person. He died today, age 89.Along with my parents, a few family members and close friends, Bergman taught me much of what I know of the world, the human psyche, love and

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During the late 19th century, the Dresden studio of LEOPOLD BLASCHKA (1822-1895) and his son RUDOLF (1857-1929) produced beautifully detailed glass models of exotic plants and bizarre sea creatures for natural history museums and aquaria all over the world.For over a century, thousands of people have peered into the cherrywood cabinets in the Botanical Museum at Harvard University to see hundreds

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Alen Sislen is passionate about photography; not just the finished photograph, but also the photographic process of visualizing and then creating the printed image from the millions of pixels, that when combined represent what he experienced when looking through the camera's lens. For him, the photographic process is not complete until he tries to convey to the viewer his excitement, whether

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Philip Lorne Craig was born in Ottawa in 1951 and started his career after completing 6 years of studies in life drawing, painting and graphic design. While serving as art director at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Newfoundland, Philip continued to paint part-time. After a number of exceptionally successful one-man shows he left the CBC to pursue his talents as a painter

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My drawing of Albert Einstein has been used by friends Jerry and Orrin Zucker in their latest It's Jerry Time animation, The Naked Swim. If you're not familiar with their hilarious and charming animated shorts, you owe it to yourself to check them out!

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Born on Long Island, New York, John Holub was always interested in art. Even as a child, he spent much of his time painting and drawing. Years later, after a tour in the United States Air Force and a move to Maine, he finally decided to pursue his childhood fascination. He began with pen-and-ink renderings and later on developed his skill as a water color painter. He has since gone on to gouache

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Michael Marmor, MD, wanted to know what it was like to see through the eyes of an artist. Literally.After writing two books on the topic of artists and eye disease, the Stanford University School of Medicine ophthalmologist decided to go one step further and create images that would show how artists with eye disease actually saw their world and their canvases. Combining computer simulation with

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While the name John Berkey may not be as well known as Norman Rockwell, Berkey is arguably as famous. His spaceship illustrations helped influence Star Wars, as he was commissioned by director George Lucas to do pre-production designs for the first movie in the series.Spaceships were often depicted as long rocket-powered tubes in Buck Rogers comics and movies, but Berkey envisioned them as large

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20th Century Russian painter Sergei Bongart (1918-1985) was born in Kiev in the Ukraine. He studied art in Kiev, Prague, Vienna and Munich, before emigrating to the United States in 1948. While living in California during the 1960s and 70s, he taught a number of aspiring young painters who later became well-known, nationally collected American artists—among them, Susan Greaves and James Dudley

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Michael Fatali was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1965. At the age of six, his family moved to Southern Arizona. The first introduction to his love affair with the outdoors began with many hiking and camping trips with his father during Fatali's childhood.When he was fifteen, his mother passed away from cancer. Feeling this unfortunate loss, he began to rediscover himself and develop an intimate

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Clyde Aspevig's personal and artistic horizons have unfolded expansively since his childhood on a Montana farm near the Canadian border. That period of geographical and cultural isolation was in retrospect a blessing for the artist he recalls. "Because I grew up in a vacuum in Montana, I wasn't taught the cliches."He sees such naivete as allowing him to be more open to everything around him,

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Jeffrey Catherine Jones (born January 10, 1944 in Atlanta, GA) was a very popular science fiction and fantasy illustrator during the 1960's and early '70s. Among the books he did covers for were the Ace paperback editions of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series and Andre Norton's Postmarked the Stars. At the time he was competing with Roy G. Krenkel who had a tight almost J. Allen St.

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Matthew Read Smith was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1960, and at the age of three moved with his family to Scottsdale, Arizona. Later, they moved to Europe where they lived two years in France and one in Switzerland. In subsequent years, Matt painted in Germany, Austria, and Italy. He has lived most of his life in Arizona, where he developed a deep attachment to and respect for the Sonoran

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Jan Op De Beeck is arguably the world's greatest caricaturist.Born in Congo in 1958, Jan moved to Belgium in 1960, where he obtained mastership in 1979 at Sint-Thomas in Brussels. He began teaching the arts in 1979 at the Coloma Institute in Mechelen. Jan married his wife Chris in 1979, and they have three children: Lieven (1980), Katrijn (1982) and Pieter (1985). Jan Graduated in model drawing

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Richard Schmid was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1934. His earliest artistic influence came from his maternal grandfather, Julian Oates, an architectural sculptor. Richard’s initial studies in landscape painting, figure drawing, and anatomy began at the age of twelve and continued into classical techniques under William H. Mosby at the American Academy of Art in Chicago.Mosby, a graduate of the

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A suite of photo-authentication tools under development by Adobe Systems could make it possible to match a digital photo to the camera that shot it, and to detect some improper manipulation of images, Wired News has learned.Adobe plans to start rolling out the technology in a number of photo-authentication plug-ins for its Photoshop product beginning as early as 2008. The company is working with

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Recommended: French Easel Packpack

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Robert Balcomb, Master portrait photographer, lives in the Puget Sound area, having practiced portraiture for over forty years, from California to New Mexico to his present location. He is a graduate of the American Academy of Art, Chicago, and has a BS-Ed from The University of New Mexico and an MA-Ed from The University of Northern Colorado. He also was a faculty member of Olympic College,

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Morgan studied art at an early age with his father, a former art student. His parents both met at art school. His father, Howard, a POW in Germany, entertained his fellow American prisoners in Stalag 1 with a daily comic strip that he created and drew to keep morale up. Drawn on scraps of paper found on the prison grounds, he crafted a humorous world of characters that managed to bring a smile to

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Recommended: Jack Richeson Full Box French Style Easel

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Craig Mullins was born in 1964 in California and moved at the age of 3 to Ohio. When 18 he went back to California where for several years he lived in the proximity of Los Angeles. Today he lives in Hawaii. Mullins was classically trained (attending Pitzer College of Claremont, California (where he stayed for around 2 years) and the Art Center College of Design) but was introduced to digital art

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In Glen's own words (for who could say it better?):"Several decades ago, with the original intention of drawing super-heroes, I started serious art study with retired illustrator, Fred Fixler. Fred was a highly skilled illustrator best known for painting movie posters ( Comedy of Terrors, Pit and the Pendulum, Man with the X-ray Eyes, Burn Witch Burn, House of Usher, Hercules—Unchained, Where the

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Ryan Wurmser is a versatile young California painter who has turned from a successful career in illustration fine art. He paints richly colored landscapes with figures, interior scenes, still lifes and landscapes. Wurmser creates a sense of mood in his paintings by balancing passages of rich color with delicate grays. By working out-of-doors, directly from nature, he is able to give his works a

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Jeremy Lipking enjoys the process of wandering. As he journeys through life and explores different paths, his watchful eye continually searches for the subject of his next painting. Sometimes he’s captivated by a sight he’s never seen before. Other times, he paints an object from his everyday life, fascinated by how the light touches it at that very moment. By striving to capture the “here and

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Neil Boyle was one of a kind. An original. I've never met anyone else like him; not even close. Sure, he was a great artist, one who could paint, draw, sculpt, etch, woodcut, and generally make something brilliant out of just about anything. But he was also one of the funniest guys I ever met. "I paint bars and whores," he used to say, "because you're supposed to paint what you know."Neil was

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In every drawing or painting you create, there is a stroke of genius. As a teacher, it is my duty to show you where and how you accomplished it; as a student, your duty is to strive to repeat it.

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Here's an interesting example of computer art that just couldn't be done using any other medium (be patient, because it takes a few minutes to load): Computer Art

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Well, he was an artist to me.Legendary TV entertainer Johnny Carson died of emphysema today at age 79. He hosted NBC's "The Tonight Show" for nearly 30 years and was, to me, the greatest. Celebrities the world over are summing up their association with Johnny, saying: "He had class." During my college years I watched Carson nearly every evening, and grew to love his wry, deadpan humor. His skits,

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For those interested in science, MachinesLikeUs.com is a web resource dealing with evolutionary thought, cognitive science, artificial life and artificial intelligence. It encourages relevant scientific research and analysis, posts current news and disseminates articles that promote the following concepts: 1) Evolution is the guiding principle behind life on earth; 2) Religions and their gods are

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I first purchased an Apple Macintosh computer when it was introduced in 1984, and have been clicking a mouse and pounding a keyboard ever since. Still, it came as a surprise to me when, three years ago, I developed a numbness in my right forearm. This soon expanded to both forearms and I knew I had it: the dreaded Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.Carpal Tunnel disorder results from inflammation of the

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When I told a visitor to my web site that I use Adobe Photoshop exclusively for photo retouching, she found it hard to believe. My traditional drawing and painting experience certainly helps, but when combined with Photoshop, nearly anything is possible. I'm often called upon to retouch faces. Even the most beautiful model has flaws that need to be fixed, or proportions that should be steered

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Visitors to my web site often ask me about art supplies, wondering about oil and acrylic paints, paint brushes, easels, drawing paper and the like. One recently asked: "What kind of pencils do you use?"I'm pretty particular when it comes to drawing pencils, and over the years have tried just about everything available. I most often use compressed charcoal pencils, because charcoal

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I thought I'd begin the year with a new Blog in which I may post comments, items of general interest, and anything else that comes to mind. This is also a place where I can answer some of the many questions I receive about my work and my web site. I'd like to begin by wishing you a healthy and prosperous new year. We've all been through the ringer lately—what with the war in Iraq, the elections,

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