“Drawing is the backbone and skeleton of painting. -Fred Ross, Founder and Chairman of the Art Renewal Center. Artist John Pototschnik tells a story on his blog about a painting workshop he taught a few years ago. It was a full class and, as eager as the students were to paint, none of them knew […]
Author Archives: Meghan Sours
I’m a geek. There. I said it. When the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy hit theaters while I was in high school I attended the midnight premiers donning pointed ears, hairy feet, and an Elven made brooch. I even made my own lembas bread. I’m also a Potterhead, Sherlockian, Trekkie, Bronie (what’s the feminine […]
Here at the Whitaker Studio we started a new live model session. Bill has always been open sharing everything he knows and seized the opportunity to demonstrate some key painting points: 1. Don’t begin a painting by drawing in the lines, because they will become “Holy Writ.” In other words, we as artists tend to […]