Influences and expression of the canvas size
The size of the picture and the form that it has, it´s what we call the basic plane, where all the other visual elements are contained. Every plane has some…
The size of the picture and the form that it has, it´s what we call the basic plane, where all the other visual elements are contained. Every plane has some…
The color in a picture is always relative , you will never see a color as it really is, as how it is physically. This is because there are influences…
Johannes Itten, painter, designer and teacher in the Bauhaus school, he´s the first to make a theory about the possible types of contrasts that are produced by the different features…
The colors black, white and gray are achromatic colors, without color hue. They are the opposite of a pure color. And they are also the colors near the black or…
The texture is one of the visual elements more important in the paintings. We can use textures to enrich the works, represent reality, add expression and to create visual sensations…
The perspective is a series of practical and logical rules according to human vision. They serve to create the illusion of three-dimensional space and depth on a flat surface such…
This is a short list of the most important elements to consider for creating and composing images. Composition Rule of thirds by Nevit Dilmen . Compositional elements: 1- The Rhythm…
The golden ratio is based on a measure or number also called golden, and represented by the Greek letter φ (fi) (lowercase) o Φ (fi) (capitalize). It is a ratio…
Everything is based on the visual weights, that is, the things that gets the attention of our eyes. This is based on the human psychology and our way we equilibrate…
Light can be represented in painting in all the very different degrees of intensity that exists. When the light has a bright and deep degree, close to white color, this…
When we are painting a scene or some characters but we do not mark the contrast of lights and shadows, that is, everything has a smooth tonal graduation and the…
In our visual alphabet, we'll add another element. The negative and positive space, dealing with space and the ability to perceive the shapes within a space. In the world of…
Here are some basic rules of psychological behavior of human perception to better understand the mechanisms of the images. You need to understand how our brain decodes reality, and how…
The Pastel is a dry painting technique with excellent quality. The sticks are composed of pigment and tragacanth gum as a binder. The pastel has a velvety appearance on the…
Meera Hashimoto is an artist who stands out as an art teacher that knows how to use dynamic meditation in our creative process, how to know ourselves better with it,…
The oil paints recipe is the manufacture of a medium or oily binder. Once we have the binder, with this and pigments we will join it with a spatula or…
This watercolor painter paints natural subjects with a very great wisdom. It uses all the tricks and techniques that must be known if painting with watercolor. Even a subject as…
Some watercolor painters today made some excellent works that I keep in my blog. For example, artists like John Blockley, Philip Jamison and Richard Bolton, alongside some more. Watercolor is…
One of the most important artistic styles, which is part of the art of pre-Columbian culture. In the pictorial style of the Aztecs is the creation of the characters (mostly…
One of the most amazing artistic styles is the Egyptian Art. The paintings of Egyptian art have many fans and it´s still very popular today and it inspires new artists.…
There are many materials to create textures on a support and painting over. However, no single method about "How to create textures in a painting", but there are some basic…
"Surrealism relies in the belief of a superior reality of certain forms of association, not taken into account until today, in the omnipotence of dream and unselfish thought process. Definitely…
The point If we want to create an image with a point of attraction for the look, nothing better than creating an exact point where we want our eyes go.…
Some of the most renowned painters of contemporary abstraction in America are Tomory Dodge, Chris Finley, Carrier Moyer, Elizabeth Neel, Krin Dave, Peter Peri and Daniel Hesidence. All of them…
I present here some works of the great painter. The character mix of the artist is so explosive that as a result we have these works of exceptional quality. How…