Australian artist Lance Ross honors the techniques of the past masters with compositions featuring their likeness
With so much art around these days that I describe as smudges, splodges and smears taking up a lot of the art sales market, it is now a greater challenge to create appealing traditional works of art for patrons to hang on their walls. It is a great pleasure to work with long-proven art values, ideas and developing skills. Going back some years, all one had to do was paint a landscape competently and it would sell. That would be plein air or from photographs. Edgar Degas said, “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” The more challenging, the greater the satisfaction upon completion.
During an opening night of an art show where I sold my entry, which was a large sailing yacht plunging through rough water and the crew receiving a good shower, a director said, “But you did it from a photograph.” I refrained from answering with, “Yes, I was not able to have them pose for me,” nor did I point out that nearly every other entry was also painted from a photograph. Having spent a major part of my past life illustrating for advertisements combined with my natural bent, I just cannot stop myself aiming at realism. So, how do I achieve that by showing appreciation for more creative techniques and prove my work was not just slavish copying of photographs?
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Fresh Eyes
Anna Rose Bain discusses the passions of being an artist and helping students transform their own work
The Next Level
Jacob Dhein uses a wet-into-wet technique to create painterly depictions of a variety of subjects
Wild Spirit
Alternating between broad glazes and fine details, Claire Milligan captures the intricacies of the animal kingdom
The Bridge Between
Watercolorist Thomas Wells Schaller delves into the nuances of observation and imagination
The Color Continuum
Catherine Hearding demonstrates how she utilizes color to enhance the mood of her landscapes
Points of Precision
A strong focal point and attention to detail make Nicola Jane's artwork jump off the page
BE YOURSELF
Harley Brown's fascinating things no one else will tell you
JEFFREY T. LARSON
Expertly Putting the Pieces Together
Hot-Blooded
Blending elements of realism and surrealism, figurative artist Anna Wypych’'s paintings are dominated by vivid reds
Adam Clague Incandescence
Adam Clague’s masterful understanding of contrast allows him to paint subjects that seem to glow from within