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Living Through the ArtsGetting ready for our art workshop in Tuscany
What is talent? Getting ready for Studio Italia and I know that I will hear the following question: what is talent? Good question. I can only base my answer upon what I have seen in my long career as a painting professor. I would say that besides a bit of...
Our painting workshop Studio Italia
Art workshop in Tuscany ; "you is you, not me" Demonstration or no demonstration! In a few days, I will be the painting workshop instructor for Studio Italia, our June art workshop in Tuscany, and I am really looking forward to it. I certainly know that a few...
Studio Italia, simply the best!
Our painting workshops in Tuscany Kangaroos, Beavers and Gorgonzola is certainly among icscis/Walk the Arts' best publications. It is a small catalogue of an art exhibition that took place in Ottawa in 2011 featuring works by 42 former participants of Studio Italia,...
Studio Colombia: To be done again!
Studio Colombia 2013: Understanding Perspective held last February was a great success! We spent 10 memorable days in Pradomar, Cartagena and Santa Marta with a great group of artists and art lovers from Ottawa and Montreal. We are planning Studio Colombia again...
Canadian universities today: center of knowledge or cash machines?
A post in the memory of Aaron Schwartz In the 15th and 16th centuries, the great Florentine de Medici family ruled “successfully” by making sure that knowledge remained in the hands of a few chosen ones, hence making the Republic of Florence, at that time, a very...
The true origins of abstraction
Art Trip New York : The true origins of abstraction MoMa’s exhibit in New York, Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925; how a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art, is extraordinary. As per the Museum’s website, the show traces the “development of abstraction as it moved through a...
Studio Colombia 4 Conclusion
Be aware! by Gerry Giuliani For me, art is an invitation to engage with the present moment. Whether I am an artist or the beholder/appreciator of art, I am being asked to connect with what I see, and to how that has impact on me. Over the past 10 days our perspective...
Studio Colombia 3 The Vanishing Points
The Vanishing Points / A painting workshop in South America Not to confuse with the View-Point when both can become one. As written in the earlier post, the view-point is your final destination on your drawing, your journey’s end. We know that it is there, far away,...
Studio Colombia 2 The View Point
Perspective Drawing Workshop in Colombia > The View-Point The view-point is where you look at. It is always situated on the Horizon Line. It never leaves it; it is glued there. When the horizon line goes up, as well the view-point. The same applies when the...
Studio Colombia I The Horizon Line
The Horizon Line :God’s invention or Giotto’s The very first line which lands on a canvas for a landscape painting is undoubtedly the horizon line, the line demarcating the earth/ocean from the sky. Then, the artist determines the time of the day, puts a few trees...
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