Brush Info Charts

Brush size, shape and bristle types can be a bit dizzying, especially to a young artist entering into a store. Dick Blick has these great charts that I have posted in our studio and now on here for your reference. I suggest the following sizes in flat brushes: 6,10,14,18 and the following in round: 10,16. I also suggest you purchase synthetic or taklon bristle brushes as they are versatile (can be used for watercolor, acrylic, and oil) and are extremely durable. Of course additional brushes may be picked up later to suit your needs or preferences.

Click the link to see the charts.

BRUSH SIZING
HAIRTYPE
BRUSH SHAPES

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Intermediate Inspiration

Poached from the Powers of observation blog

Follow the link to view an assortment of still life paintings through art history.

Paintings by Temma Bell, Stanley Bielen, Georges Braque, Lisa Breslow, Joan Brown, Paul Cezanne, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Robert Dukes, Phyllis Floyd, Josephine Halvorson, Israel Hershberg, Chelsea James, Rebecca Kallem, Tim Kennedy, Ken Kewley, Karl Knaths, Sydney Licht, Dik F. Liu, Sangram Majumdar, Eve Mansdorf, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Ruth Miller, Piet Mondrian, Walter Murch, William Nicholson, George Nick, Andy Pankhurst, Raphaelle Peale, John F. Peto, Susannah Phillips, Fausto Pirandello, Harold Reddicliffe, Celia Reisman, Barnet Rubenstein, E. M. Saniga, Yael Scalia, Helene Schjerfbeck, Evan Tyler Stallone, Kimberly Cole Trowbridge, Euan Uglow, Peter Van Dyck, Susan Jane Walp

Grid View of Still Life Paintings

Clouds

Take a trip over to Ken Bushe's Website and look at his cloud paintings. Remember you have have 1 week to make any revisions to your final pieces once you've received your grade.

KEN BUSHE

Figure Drawing Materials List

The materials for charcoal drawing are few and inexpensive. Please purchase the following for our unit on Figure Drawing. All materials can be purchased at DIck Blick and Utrecht. Be sure to register for a student card if you have not to receive your 10% discount.

-VIne charcoal sticks ( purchase at least one box to start )
- Compressed charcoal (one box will last for a while)
- Kneaded eraser
- Rubber eraser
- Chamois
- Foam rubber powder puff ( used for makeup application, check target or CVS/Rite Aid)
- Sander (small wooden handled strip of sandpaper to sharpen charcoal to a point


Vine Charcoal


Compressed Charcoal

Foam rubber powder puff

sanding block

chamois

Color Help

An Encounter with Euan Uglow From Powers of Observation Blog-

"I had been doing the usual: chucking on the paint, wasting prodigious amounts of energy and materials. Sometimes, something would appear in this undisciplined mess, full of vitality and beauty. However it all smacked of monkeys and typewriters, and my understanding of the way painting worked was purely instinctual.

Then one day, in my last term, Euan strolled by, small and intense, dressed in black, eyes accentuated by his rather thick glasses, and told me that I didn't know what I was doing. Now usually this would have led to a fair bit of antagonism.

But on this day, like a good Zen master dealing with a stupid and recalcitrant student, Euan timed his approach perfectly, and cutting the crap, just asked me which color I thought was the most prominent when I looked at the posing model, and how light or dark I thought it was. Then, after I had mixed and applied that to the canvas, we moved to the next most prominent color, and its tone, and most importantly the relationship to the first color. And so on. Until I had filled the canvas, often with colors that seemed totally wrong but had been ascertained by their relationship to other colors.

There magically appeared on my canvas the model in all her three-dimensional glory. After some fine-tuning, it became a great little painting which I still keep as a memento to Euan Uglow in my studio. In twenty minutes, he had shown me a fundamental building block, which I was able to adapt to my own painting needs, for which I am eternally grateful.

Tai-Shan Schierenberg studied painting with Euan Uglow
at the Slade School in London."


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