Robert Bruce Williams

Portrait painters: Robert Bruce Williams Source: World of Portrait Painting

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Thick Paint

And sometimes I simply want to throw paint thickly onto a surface and see how it looks. Why not? And play with the colours. And with the shadows and the light. And not to think. And not to care about the objects of my attention but use them as an excuse to throw paint onto […]

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Museum of Contemporary Art to Create Original Programming for YouTube

I can’t see art channel becoming anywhere near as popular as cute kittens and funny accidents, but getting art on Youtube is definitely a must. An article about such plans on New York Times blog. By RANDY KENNEDY Joining its hometown industry and betting on the success of YouTube’s new initiative to promote original content, the Museum of Contemporary […]

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Just Found Myself a New Beacon in The Face of Frank Kern

One thing lead to another, as usual, and I found myself a new beacon, icon, head-figure, an example to learn from – Frank Kern. Beats Will Smith in MiB, Piers Brosnan as James Bond and Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow any day. “To be a successful leader, you must always be yourself. Be intentional […]

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Looking for a Yummy Distraction?

Through my wandering to” I don’t know where, searching for I don’t know what” I found a great distraction (yet another one!) – GhostWriterDad blog. Actually, I am going through Sean’s free ebook (you can find it on his blog), which is refreshingly different from tons of BS abundant on the Net. Well, I hope […]

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Mezzotint and more… Margaret van Patten

While looking for artists working in mezzotint, found an amazing art by an artist Margaret van Patten. Paper Thin photo by Harold Hutchinson Etching with mezzotint The image is rich in content – messages from conscious and subconscious levels merge in an emotional and elegant manner. The technical diversity the artist applied to creating the […]

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Loyal Reader or Royal Leader?

“Thank you for being a loyal reader and supporter of ReelSEO.” – said the top line of today’s newsletter, but to me it read like “Thank you for being a royal leader and supporter of ReelSEO. Well, my pleasure, say I. Or say We. Because REEL SEO newsletter is my favourite of all newsletters that […]

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Mezzotint video. Artist Toru Iwaya

Found this video of a Japanese mezzotint artist. Curious, how a technique developed by a Eropean became so Eastern. It is slow, meditative, withdrawn, laborious, solitary. And that’s why I love it.

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Eureka!

An hour ago I was sitting on my potty and staring at the tiny spot on the bathroom rug. It is plain cotton, off-white, at the moment moderately clean rug from IKEA.  As it often happens, the patters of the surface, specks and all, formed into something definable. (For instance, when I lived in Tashkent, on the toilet door frame the shadows […]

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