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Post Graduation Studies


Francis Vallejo

Across the world, art students are graduating from their respective programs and entering the professional world. Congrats to you all! This post is for you. Some of you have jobs lined up. Awesome. Some of you are pursuing freelance or waiting to hear back from your job applications and all of a sudden have all this time on your hands. What to do? Well, 12 years ago I was a young artist freshly graduated looking…

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Photographing Artwork in Museums


Howard Lyon

October 17, 2025 - by Howard Lyon   detail from The Oreads by William Bouguereau I just returned from France. Had a wonderful time with the whole family and saw some amazing sights. At the top of my list was the Musée d'Orsay. It has risen to the top of my list of favorite museums. Photos of paintings don't really come close to capturing the experience of seeing an original, but I do find them useful in my study and they are nice to have to remind me of notes or observations I made in person.  For instance, check out this little splash of vermillion on the back of one of the satyr's necks.  I missed it in person, but found it in the photo: Despite the limitations if you are going to take photos in a museum you might…

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