delta, Author at Maniscalco Gallery

Fold in the Light

by delta | Jun 20, 2013 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View

This is from an art lesson yesterday in class. Want to express folds in drapery or in skin? You must understand how forms behave in the light. Here is a fold depicted in light, side view and top view. There is a hard cast shadow on the left side. And there is a soft...

Aspire to Happiness

by delta | Jun 19, 2013 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View

This life therefore is not righteousness but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing not being but becoming, not rest, exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it. The process is not yet finished but it is going on. This is not...

Trouble with Trifles

by delta | Jun 8, 2013 | Theatre Related, World View

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oESvmg0W_dc[/youtube] Captain James T. Kierkegaard to the Rescue What is a disagreement but a trifle? What makes a healthy debate over ideas into a conflict, an essential disagreement? Without preliminary understanding there...

Golf Portrait

by delta | Jun 7, 2013 | Motivational, Portraiture, World View

Look dad, I did it! As my very first friend once told me, “Rob, there are two kinds of people: boaters and golfers.” Well here are a couple golfers. This was a particularly meaningful portrait for me, as it expresses a father’s love for his son. ...

The God Factor

by delta | May 28, 2013 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, World View

Most theologies would support that God is more about how things are connected than in how the are separate. Drawing is a celebration of the connections between forms. Therefore, these connections might be thought 0f as a celebration of God; the more connections,...

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