by netGALAXY Studios | Jun 23, 2013 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Portraiture, World View
Getting it Right the First Time Rather than getting the wrong value on your brush and then working it into the painting, try getting the right value on your palette and painting directly onto the canvas, without apology. Smooshing the paint around only weakens the...
by netGALAXY Studios | Jun 23, 2013 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View
Joe Maniscalco Returns Fom the hey-day of illustration Here’s one of the vintage Joe Maniscalco illustrations I have re-purposed. I wonder what they were used for originally. They are masterfully painted in the hey-day of illustration. I was thinking of other...
by netGALAXY Studios | Jun 23, 2013 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View
Joe Maniscalco Retrofitted I’ve really been enjoying excavating my father’s legacy by digging out these vintage illustrations and re-captioning them. I am re-purposing and compiling images of his and my work, along with witty and not-so-witty aphorisms...
by netGALAXY Studios | 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...
by netGALAXY Studios | 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...
by netGALAXY Studios | 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,...
