Award-winning children’s illustrator Terry Widener critiques Wednesday
Baseball, not illustration critiques, has been in the air all week. So we’re repurposing a...
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Category: Pictures worth a thousand words
Watercolor Wednesday – Paper as light: Wendy Artin
Cogent watercolor painting insights to be had in absorbing the watercolors of Wendy Artin, an...
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Funny bunnies – an artist’s perspective
Oh my gosh. It rhymes and shows bunny children with only half their clothes on sometimes. Despite...
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Children’s Illustration: Completely Different
In last month’s marvelous Group Critique of children’s illustration by Caldecott...
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Watercolor winter and inked lines that say Christmas
In 2002 a special picture book came out with exquisite Yuletide reminiscence by Newbery...
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Poster paint to set the scenes
I can’t get over these anime background artists with their battered brushes and messy...
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Backgrounds to transport you
Kazua Oga’s hand-painted backgrounds contribute hugely to the impact of The Tale of Princess...
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Takahata’s Transcendent Fairy Tale
Based on a 1,000 year old fairy tale, The Tale of Princess Kaguya breaks your heart as it inspires...
Read MoreArtists, illustrators, dogged world-builders
He never saw a jungle, because he never left his native country of France. But he brought jungles...
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When You Wear Red
“Little Red Riding Hood” Engraving (left) by Gustave Dore. We’ve talked here...
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‘Illustrating’ with watercolor
Illustrating with watercolor requires deliberate thinking about the pattern of darks in the...
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Painting old buildings
Oh, my. Yes, painting old buildings in watercolor not latex. You’ll want to see...
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Video art lessons!
Richard Robinson Painting Instruction
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