An ode to artistic friendship and the serendipity of plein-air cityscape painting.
Drawing is an act of interpretation informed by purpose, study, experience, intuition, and knowing one’s craft.
The cityscape painter needs a thicker skin than other kinds of painters.
What does “becoming an artist” mean? Some people simply have an impulse to create. They are artists by nature. Some strive to become skilled artists and enjoy that quest for its own sake. Then there are artists who also want to share something they have created by exhibiting their work. Open juried exhibitions are a way to get started exhibiting your work publicly.
Virtually every artist, from the time of cave painting to the dawn of non-objective art, will tell you they paint what they see. Painting what you see seems like the most obvious and simplest thing in the world…until you try to do it.
Each May, over the course of one week, the Art Students League conducts a competition for grants and scholarships judged by invited professionals from New York City’s arts community—artists, gallerists, academics, and critics.
Exceptional student work for the week of May 12, 2014.
Exceptional student work for the week of May 5, 2014.
Exceptional student work for the week of April 28, 2014.
Exceptional student work for the week of April 21, 2014.