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visual treat for eyes

http://www.artmajeur.com/?go=artworks%2Fdisplay_list_galleries&login=elayaraja

Oil paintings by elayaraja

Added by paranirajan on February 25, 2011 at 11:55pm — No Comments

How to erase (dry) pastel from paper?

*** The word pastel implies dry pastels, as different from 'oil pastels', which is not the subject of our discussion.

A more recent work, making use of optical mixing (i.e. laying down hatch marks of assorted colors, so that the interpreted…

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Added by Prosenjit Roy on February 20, 2011 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

few pages from my sketch book.

these sketches are made from some googled photographs. …

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Added by subhash on February 9, 2011 at 7:43am — No Comments

Watercolor step by step

Did this watercolor couple of weeks back taking reference from a photo,

The snaps I have taken while doing the paintings.

Reference photo:…

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Added by mohan on January 25, 2011 at 6:09pm — 2 Comments

Spanish Sketchers!

Some very unusual sketching styles come up here while browsing through. A real treat.

Spanish Sketchbooks

Added by Priya Sebastian on December 28, 2010 at 12:29am — No Comments

Javier Mariscal's Sketchbook

Drawing with abandon

Javier Mariscal's sketchbook

Added by Priya Sebastian on December 28, 2010 at 12:00am — No Comments

The show is on at Renaissance gallerie....

My paintings are on show at renaissance gallerie, cunningham road from 27th to 31st of this month... …

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Added by Gayatri Mahesh on December 27, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

My Most Favourite Blog of all time!

All done on a Post - it!
Don Kenn Gallery

Added by Priya Sebastian on December 25, 2010 at 10:48pm — No Comments

Golden Ratio - II

After Writing that small post on the golden proportions, I came across some contrarian stuff. Here are a couple of them.

http://www.laputanlogic.com/articles/2005/04/14-1647-4601.html

http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~markov/GoldenRatio.pdf

I am sure, the whole matter is now getting confusing.

Right now, I am more inclined…

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Added by J L Anil Kumar on December 14, 2010 at 6:52pm — No Comments

Priya Sebastian's Art on View

This is the third exhibition by a Pencil Jammer that I am blogging about and it gives me great pleasure.

Priya Sebastian - yes, she of the charcoal drawings of women with haunting eyes and superb pastel landscapes - among other things - that you are familiar with.…

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Added by J L Anil Kumar on December 11, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

I have been toying with the Golden Proportion (also called the Golden Mean, Golden Ratio, Golden Rectangle) a little bit these days. Nothing worhwhile has come out of it yet, though. So I looked for it on Pencil Jammers and found nothing. I was intrigued and decided to post something about it.

Put very simply: The ratio of 1:1.618 OR 1:0.618 seems to have magical properties. For some reason, things whose lengths and…

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Added by J L Anil Kumar on December 6, 2010 at 8:00pm — 4 Comments

Artists' Biographies Anyone?

I was looking for some details about the picture Prabha put up with today's assignment - Vermeer's "Astronomer" or "Geographer". It occurred to me that I have not read his biography called "Girl With a Pearl Earring". The reason is simple, I do not have the book.

Mind wandered as it does and I remembered the other biographies of artists that I have read.

Here is a (short) list:

Moon and Six Pence; Somerset Maugham; Gauguin

The Agony and the…

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Added by J L Anil Kumar on November 18, 2010 at 8:00pm — 5 Comments

How to make Pencil Jammers.com work for you

Pencil Jammers has grown rapidly over the past few months. What started as a little site to track the artwork of a few friends has now grown into a small community of enthusiastic artists from around the world. For those who have been around since the beginning, this site offers no surprises. If you've joined more recently however, you may feel a bit overwhelmed at the amount of content crammed into this site. Here then is a primer on how to find your way around, and how you can make this site… Continue

Added by George Supreeth on November 15, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Blog on Prabha's Exhibition

Please click here!…

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Added by J L Anil Kumar on October 27, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Prabha's First Solo SHow

Prabha, an active Pencil Jammer is holding her first Solo exhibition at Chitra Kala Parishat.

All Bangalore jammers and those who happen to be here at that time will visit the exhibition I am sure.…

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Added by J L Anil Kumar on October 19, 2010 at 6:21pm — 3 Comments

Links to free art resources online

a blog of links to free art resources that i put up for fellow beginners a while ago. not updated regularly as there are now many others doing a much better job! Most of them are still working. I hope you find at least a few useful. happy learning!

Added by ujwala on September 27, 2010 at 10:05am — No Comments

http://www.vindowart.blogspot.com/

some latest work... with many of old...

Added by vinod shantaram more on September 21, 2010 at 4:45pm — No Comments

A Z Ranjit

Mr. A Z Ranjit, a distinguished pencil jammer that all jammers should be specially proud of (we are proud of all pencil jammers, aren't we?) is turning 60 on 19th September.…

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Added by J L Anil Kumar on September 6, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments