Category Archive: Art
- Advice From Those Who’ve Been There - 07/26/2006
We were intensely interested to read the Advice From Those Who’ve Been There article posted at Communication Arts which interviewed some stellar names in the world of design — names who have since retired or moved on to other things. As the article's author, Harriett Levin Balkind, noted:
I was looking for entrepreneurs who had created […] - Home Drawing Lessons - 06/09/2006
We are completely thrilled — our new home drawing lessons will arrive next week. We'd contacted Larry Gluck's Mission Renaissance about taking his courses. Not out of the blue, mind you, but we'd heard of The Gluck Method for years — the word on the street was that it was a method of teaching […]
- Maya Plisetskaya's Dying Swan - 05/15/2006
'Tis the wee hours, and we turned on the television to discover a black and white film of what appeared to be a ballet of The Dying Swan, a ballet which we've never had the pleasure of seeing. This could be nothing else, we thought — and, as it turned out, it was indeed a […]
- Pompeiian Art Find - 07/19/2005
One wishes that this little item was resting in our living room. Instead, we appreciate the BBC News' coverage of a collection of artifacts from the 79 A.D. Mt. Vesuvius eruption. Billed as "the most important find of this kind for 70 years," the collection comprises what looks like a set of silverware. Says the […]
- Drawing Lessons - 07/05/2005
From Cowdisley Atelier and Studio, a really nice set of drawing lessons online in their Illustrated Lesson Notes for Teachers. The online lessons cover quite a bit of beginning to more advanced instruction in perspective and alignment that may have eluded drawing students — and can be the difference between a drawing looking "right" […]
- Oriental Platter, Hand-Made - 05/02/2005
Having lived in a variety of big, multi-cultural cities, our long-time appreciation of oriental art was stirred when we discovered this digital image of a breathtaking one-of-a-kind hand-made Oriental platter in an email from a friend.
atter is adorned with a decidedly oriental design, and bears a richness of composition and color we've not […]
