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Now that I’ve followed seven painting tutorials by Bob Ross, here is my first attempt at painting a landscape using what I learned. Bob encourages his viewers to use his techniques to create their own worlds, and so I used my own color choices and composition here, made up entirely from my imagination. Bob uses a lot more brown and gray than I like to paint. So I let loose and used brighter colors. Unlike Bob, I used a set of five basic mixing colors of Royal Talens gouache in CMYKW. This little painting is 4.5” square on cotton paper.

Landscape panting of sunset with clouds, hills, trees, shrubs, and water.

Here’s my second attempt at a Bob Ross tutorial using gouache. I tried using my palette knife like Bob did to make the mountains, but the scale was off since the knife is big, and my painting is small. So I switched back to a brush and found that getting the texture right for the snow didn’t quite work as instructed. I’m also finding that gouache doesn’t blend as easily as oil paint, making the sky more speckled than I’d like. I have learned about how to paint reflections in ponds including that little white edge that goes right where the water meets the river bank.

After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 2, Mt. McKinley
Gouache on cotton paper, 4.5”

Painting of a mountain with trees and bushes and water. The style is loose and painterly.

Good Morning!

We'll continue for several days by looking at the Rachael Ruysch paintings on exhibit at This is: Fruit Still Life with Stag Beetle and Nest, 1717 by Rachael Ruysch. 1717 ! Let that sink in. This woman was a world renowned painter and botanist in the 1700s. And, she lived to be 85 when the average life expectancy was 58.

A 1700s still life painting, so very dark background, with bright fruits spilling out of that background. Closer examination shows many insects and reptiles, in particular a stage beetle and also a birds nest.

A woodland grove filled with fairy toadstools, the iconic red and white fly agaric mushrooms. Add a little magic to someone's Christmas with original art...
https://folksy.com/find/item/8574799


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A small colour drawing of a woodland grove filled with fairy toadstools, the iconic red and white fly agaric mushrooms. The drawing is in an illustrative style with white outline around the mushrooms. Fly agaric is the classic fairy tale toadstool, this red and white fungus is often found beneath birch trees in autumn. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper 5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm).

les jeux (de couleurs) sont faits

Yohei Kisanuki, Limbatrip, Spin Art with WhiteBoard and Potter’s Wheel
Le phénakistiscope (mot formé du grec phenaxakos, « trompeur », et skopein, « examiner ») est un jouet optique donnant l'illusion du mouvement attribué à la persistance rétinienne. Il a été inventé par le Belge Joseph Plateau en 1832

des touches de feutres de couleur sur le tour du potier et la roulette s'anime

Masto hivemind:

Bit of a longshot here, but I was just recalling a site I used to love flipping through years ago for its (digital?) artwork, that was called something like... Paintbrush? Or something equally everyday like that? Brushstroke? No, that's not it...

It's some posted art of one artist who does some pretty spectacular paintings that go from fantasy to sci-fi. It's a distinct style that has some detail while also omitting others, like a lot of faces were blurred out and/or abstract.

They all struck me as looking like some were part of longer storylines, but I didn't see or read of any arcs that explained any.

I just tried seaching for "paintbrush", and of course came across everything connected to that term but not this guy's site.

Again, a long shot, but any chance anyone knows what the site is called, or …

Drowning in the Light of Monet’s Venice

Venice turned out to be the ideal environment for the artist to explore the relationship between water and light that long preoccupied him.

by Natalie Haddad

https://hyperallergic.com/1057971/drowning-in-the-light-of-monet-and-venice-brooklyn-museum/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Golden%20Toilet%20Sells%20for%20%2412%201M&utm_campaign=D111925

Monet at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=claude+monet

Claude Monet, "San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk" (1908). It depicts mysterious buildings that seem to magically appear from the surrounding landscape, they almost seem to float in the background. The forms are gently inserted, though not enough to disguise their identity. The painting focuses on the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore with its bell tower rising to the top of the painting. To the right are the faintly visible domes of Santa Maria della Salute and the mouth of the Grand Canal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Giorgio_Maggiore_at_Dusk#/media/File:Claude_Monet,_Saint-Georges_majeur_au_cr%C3%A9puscule.jpg

A Hidden Sargent Painting Revives the Story of a Rebel Heiress Who Shaped Art History

Winnaretta Singer became a queer icon and cultural force in fin-de-siècle Paris. Her portrait is on view now at the Musée d'Orsay.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/winaretta-singer-arts-patron-2710704

Self-portrait c.1885 by Winnaretta Singer. The painting shows a softly rendered figure seated indoors, holding an open dark-colored book. The person has short, curly hair adorned with small leafy shapes and gazes outward with a calm, slightly distant expression. She wears a green garment patterned with delicate floral motifs over a red collar. Behind her hangs a light curtain washed with warm pink and peach tones, through which daylight filters. To the side, a window reveals a bright, impressionistic garden scene in greens and yellows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnaretta_Singer#/media/File:Winnaretta_Singer10.jpg