Light Box Expo
This past weekend, the first Light Box Expo officially launched on Friday morning at the...
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Author: Gregory Manchess
Over The Flatiron
The Flatiron Building, the world’s first skyscraper which became New York City’s architectural...
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Watching the Moon Landing LIVE
This Saturday, July 20th, marks the 50th anniversary of mankind’s first steps on the Moon. As a...
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ShortTake: Back to the Drawing Board
back row: Donato Giancola, Iain McCaig, Scott Fischer, Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo; front row:...
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Short Takes: What to Leave In; What to Leave Out
These ‘short take’ posts will address common factors within an art career. You’ll recognize these...
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Painting Montage: The New Prometheus
Next up in Michael Swanwick’s Mongolian Wizard series is “The New Prometheus.” In keeping with the...
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Painting The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Coen Brothers’ latest, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, is possibly one of their most lovingly...
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Painting Montage: Murder in the Spook House
This is the next short story installment in Michael Swanwick’s grand series of The Mongolian...
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Above the Timberline Radio Play Premiere
This Friday, February 1st at 7pm, the Norman Rockwell Museum presents the first Radio Play of...
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The Illustration Master Class: An Unequaled Opportunity
One year’s example of core faculty and attending guests, from left: Irene Gallo, Iain...
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Above the Timberline Exhibition Premieres at the Norman Rockwell Museum
The Above the Timberline exhibition is now open at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge,...
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A Timberline Painting in Progress
This November, thirty of the originals from my novel, Above the Timberline, will be featured...
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Perfect Passage, Subtle Observations
Frank Tenney Johnson was a fan of doing nocturnes, or night paintings. The conditions to capture a subject absorbed in moonlight depend on your ability to recognize subtle value and color. Specifically value. Study the light in this Johnson painting. Besides the dense, solid black shadows under the horse and foliage, notice how subtle the mountain sits in the background while the cowboy’s shirt floats in the foreground plane of the piece, even though they’re…
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Perfect Passage, 5 Influential Pieces
These are paintings that touch me, push my inner-painter. The visual sense I’ve developed over the...
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10 Things…Brushwork
Inspired by my students, and in response to so many questions, let’s take a look at brushwork...
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