Gouache is a medium that doesn’t get its due. Often looked on as a “less than” subset of transparent watercolor, or a “wannabe” substitute for oil, gouache has some of the characteristics of each. It is a form of watercolor, pigment suspended in gum arabic, and does give the ability to work in light over dark like oil and unlike transparent watercolor. Most importantly, though, gouache has its own character, with the ability to produce smooth, even tones, distinctive color and the ability to impart a graphic character to brushstrokes that can give gouache a unique visual appeal. Larry Seiler worked for 17 years in acrylic and another 15 …

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Jason Seiler is a caricaturist, character designer and illustrator whose clients include The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Weekly Standard, Business Week, MAD Magazine and many others. As a caricaturist, Seiler often pushes his exaggerated portraits to extremes, to the point where they have a fun-house mirror feeling. He can then turn around...
By Brenne Meirowitz Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils are water-soluble and made of professional artist quality grade pigments. They are sold individually or in sets of 12, 24, and 36 pencils. Used with or without water, the smooth and rich colored leads lend themselves to creating dynamic drawings. Additionally, all Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils precisely...
There is much to be said for the simple, direct observation of our immediate surroundings, and the artistic expression of that observation. I find the results often have a visual charm that comes from the unassuming honesty of the act of observing and recording, unrestrained by the intention of “creating a work”. I see some of that...
The acrylic painting medium is fairly new and has only been around since the 1950’s. Since then, it has continually been under development and refinement. Acrylic paint is highly favored amongst artists because of its versatility. It can be applied in a thick fashion as an impasto having rich texture or in washes mimicking the characteristics...
Luc Desmarchelier is an art dierctor at Sony Pictures Entertainment as well as a concept and visual development artist who has also done work for DreamWorks Animation and Amblimation/Universal Studios. Desmarchelier maintains two blogs, Ushusia , which showcases his professional work, and harmattan , which is devoted to his personal projects,...
Graphic Novels are a part of a section of reading that combines the two major senses that any thinking man can use, that of sight and that of reading and thinking. This is the reason why graphic novels form such an intriguing and interesting part of the population of books. Here we give you a top ten list of the best
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Like many of the online interactive color visualization and color picking utilities, ColorJack offers multiple interfaces with different options and capabilities. The most interesting of these, and most popular of the ColorJack options, is their Color Sphere , or Color Theory Visualizer (image above, top). More than simply a color picker, this...
Gwenn Seemel is an Oregon based portrait artist with an unusual technique. her colorful portrait images are built up from a series of cross hatch strokes in acrylic, a process she developed from an interest in printmaking. As you can see from the demo on this page, she starts with areas of color shapes, often with a modernist, geometric feel that...
Since I wrote about illustrator Larry Roibal last year, he has been continuing his wonderful practice of daily sketches of prominent figures. Roibal draws his newsmakers on newsprint, literally. It’s common for artists to draw on “newsprint”, meaning the cheap pulp paper, similar to that on which newspapers are printed, that...
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