July 2010 Blog Posts (6)

Painting Realistic Clouds -tutorial (digital)

Well, this I made almost 8 months back and became a Daily Deviation in Deviantart with over 1500 favorites and 12,500 views .. so i thought it'd be worth sharing with you and see if it's helping some new guys trying their hands on digital paintings..

Clouds are pretty tough to paint in digitally because they already look

pretty digital up there in the sky ..and when u capture it, it turns out

to be pretty dead and graphic. hope this… Continue

Added by Rosh on July 21, 2010 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

In Praise of Praise

I read this article a few days ago.…

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Added by J L Anil Kumar on July 13, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Origin of the Species!

Wood-engravings for a 1963 print of Darwin's Origin of the Species, from wotatopia on Flickr. …

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Added by Prabha Mallya on July 8, 2010 at 4:31pm — No Comments

M C Escher and all that

Last week, Supreeth set up what he called a graphite sphere as the subject for the Daily Sketch Group. He also put up a picture of a lithograph by M C Escher.

That reminded me of an incident of about 8 years ago. I had been to The Netherlands for 3 months. In our offices there, I…

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Added by J L Anil Kumar on July 4, 2010 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

Show and Tell

After The Rainfall (watercolor on hot press paper)was selected for a show by water media artists and is now on display at the Charles Taylor Arts Center in Hampton, VA. I invite you all to visit my blog artbymeera. I try post my work and thoughts regularly. Love to hear from you…

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Added by Meera Rao on July 3, 2010 at 1:45am — No Comments

The Genius that was Sargent

John Singer Sargent was an American painter (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) and a keen observer of life. I first came across Sargent while I was researching Spanish Dancers for a project. Singer's keen eye amazingly breaks down complex visuals to simple pools of colour without breaking the illusion. They are startlingly lifelike.…

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Added by George Supreeth on July 2, 2010 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments