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If you link to us, THANKS! Could you please update your link? If you don't yet link to us.... Do you think might consider it? Please and thank you.
The whole website has been redesigned and everything is in one handy place - with new snazzy doodads like star ratings for demos, comments on posts AND demos, and full site search. Oh yeah - and if you were looking at the old site on safari and wondering what was up with the weird design, we are now cross-platform friendly.
Did I mention there are THREE new demos? Three.
Arranging Flowers for Still Life Painting
Making Painting Panels
Adhering Linen to Panel
And all the demos are there, on the new demonstration page.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
BONHEUR'S LAW: In a battle between a bull and an easel, the bull will almost always win.
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This story comes from Jeffrey Freedner....thanks, Jeff!
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The funniest sods law story I have ever heard was from a friend of mine who was out landscape painting one fine afternoon in Vermont.
He was painting in a far end of a cow pasture when he suddenly noticed that there was a bull coming towards him at a pretty good clip.
In fact it was charging him.
He had to run and take refuge up a tree as the bull was faster than him and pretty serious about my friends infringement on his heard of cows. Needless to say, the bull quickly tired of head butting the tree trunk in an effort of dislodging the artist. Frustrated by these turn of events the bull then turned his sights on the tree-bound painter's easel. Of course the results of this encounter were not favorable for the easel which even though it had three legs it was not fast enough to escape the bull.
After the bull finished off the easel he stood around for awhile as by now the cows had come over to see what all the fuss was. The bull, no doubt happy with his conquest of the day trotted off with a few of his heard for his reward. The painter, now safe in his tree top fort waited until the bull was out of site to come down. While he was waiting he was had to have the added humility of watching the cows lick his painting clean as well as his palette.
The result was the cows now had, blue, phthalo green and cad yellow snouts. After about twenty minutes or so he thought it safe enough to get down out of the tree. He quickly gathered all evidence of his trespass and made for the nearest bar to calm his nerves as well as to curse the bovine art critics.
--J. Freedner
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So - that must be how they make this?
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This story comes from Jeffrey Freedner....thanks, Jeff!
******
The funniest sods law story I have ever heard was from a friend of mine who was out landscape painting one fine afternoon in Vermont.
He was painting in a far end of a cow pasture when he suddenly noticed that there was a bull coming towards him at a pretty good clip.
In fact it was charging him.
He had to run and take refuge up a tree as the bull was faster than him and pretty serious about my friends infringement on his heard of cows. Needless to say, the bull quickly tired of head butting the tree trunk in an effort of dislodging the artist. Frustrated by these turn of events the bull then turned his sights on the tree-bound painter's easel. Of course the results of this encounter were not favorable for the easel which even though it had three legs it was not fast enough to escape the bull.
After the bull finished off the easel he stood around for awhile as by now the cows had come over to see what all the fuss was. The bull, no doubt happy with his conquest of the day trotted off with a few of his heard for his reward. The painter, now safe in his tree top fort waited until the bull was out of site to come down. While he was waiting he was had to have the added humility of watching the cows lick his painting clean as well as his palette.
The result was the cows now had, blue, phthalo green and cad yellow snouts. After about twenty minutes or so he thought it safe enough to get down out of the tree. He quickly gathered all evidence of his trespass and made for the nearest bar to calm his nerves as well as to curse the bovine art critics.
--J. Freedner
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So - that must be how they make this?
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
TIP: Smartflix
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DVD's are so expensive.... rent them. SmartFlix has thousands of DVDs that rent for pretty reasonable prices, kinda like Netflix except the fees vary depending on the DVD. Also their supply isn't limitles like Netflix - you'll occasionally find yourself on a waiting list.
What's in there? Actual people you have heard of, that's who. Robert Johnson's Floral Still Life, Richard Schmid Painting the Landscape, Kevin Macpherson Paints A Landscape, Figure Painting With Sherrie McGraw. Also each video has comments from other viewers to help you decide. And they have a guarantee.
WARNING - RENTING OIL PAINTING DVDS IS HUGELY ADDICTIVE.
But seriously, if you are on a waiting list, why not rent a vid on Marine Diesel Engine Maintenance?
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DVD's are so expensive.... rent them. SmartFlix has thousands of DVDs that rent for pretty reasonable prices, kinda like Netflix except the fees vary depending on the DVD. Also their supply isn't limitles like Netflix - you'll occasionally find yourself on a waiting list.
What's in there? Actual people you have heard of, that's who. Robert Johnson's Floral Still Life, Richard Schmid Painting the Landscape, Kevin Macpherson Paints A Landscape, Figure Painting With Sherrie McGraw. Also each video has comments from other viewers to help you decide. And they have a guarantee.
WARNING - RENTING OIL PAINTING DVDS IS HUGELY ADDICTIVE.
But seriously, if you are on a waiting list, why not rent a vid on Marine Diesel Engine Maintenance?
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SITES WE HAVE BOOKMARKED: Mark Harden's Artchive
Check out Mark Harden's Artchive .
Browse his extensive collection of master paintings by painting movement or by individual artist - read bios of each artist, and with great high-res scans, virtually put your nose right up to a painting (okay...your screen) without risking a single museum cop yelling at you.
A must have link if you're doing old master copies.
There are also links to current online exhibits, and analysis, theory and criticisms of famous works. It's difficult to find out much about Mark himself, except that he writes for an online art magazine called Glyphs.
And, I just love the pun in the site's name. :)
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Browse his extensive collection of master paintings by painting movement or by individual artist - read bios of each artist, and with great high-res scans, virtually put your nose right up to a painting (okay...your screen) without risking a single museum cop yelling at you.
A must have link if you're doing old master copies.
There are also links to current online exhibits, and analysis, theory and criticisms of famous works. It's difficult to find out much about Mark himself, except that he writes for an online art magazine called Glyphs.
And, I just love the pun in the site's name. :)
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
LIVE PAINTING SESSION TODAY
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9:30 am, painting from life. The bouquet isn't dry so that one will have to wait. I promised Ego I'd paint some glass.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lisa-gloria-painting
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9:30 am, painting from life. The bouquet isn't dry so that one will have to wait. I promised Ego I'd paint some glass.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lisa-gloria-painting
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Changes are coming
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Just wanted to let everybody know - we have lots of content waiting in the wings, but we're redesigning the site. It just got away from me really fast and we're trying to switch over to a content management system to make updating everything a lot easier.
The site will incorporate the blog, and have lots of other nifty features like page ratings, full site search, better oraganization, and (supposedly) cross-platform goodness.
but Cindy says my design is still too girly, so it will be a few days yet. Hang in there.
Here's some of what's coming:
Arranging Flowers for Still Life
Oranges and Silver Cup- Director's Cut
Figure Painting Demo - Director's Cut
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Just wanted to let everybody know - we have lots of content waiting in the wings, but we're redesigning the site. It just got away from me really fast and we're trying to switch over to a content management system to make updating everything a lot easier.
The site will incorporate the blog, and have lots of other nifty features like page ratings, full site search, better oraganization, and (supposedly) cross-platform goodness.
but Cindy says my design is still too girly, so it will be a few days yet. Hang in there.
Here's some of what's coming:
Arranging Flowers for Still Life
Oranges and Silver Cup- Director's Cut
Figure Painting Demo - Director's Cut
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
LIVE PAINTING SESSION MONDAY
I will be continuing the bouquet commission via live webstreamin' video on Monday at 3pm cst (Chicago time), so the folks out there on the other side of the world can see it too. http://www.tinyurl.com/lisagloria
This session will be first color underlayer and last probably 3 hours. If there is time I will bring the glass vase mostly to finish so if you're interested in a glass painting demonstration this might be a good one.
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This session will be first color underlayer and last probably 3 hours. If there is time I will bring the glass vase mostly to finish so if you're interested in a glass painting demonstration this might be a good one.
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