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Realism Today Ambassador Jessica Oliveras takes us through the steps of her portrait painting, "Selfhood."
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It was a terrifying thing, this freedom to paint anything, and my first reaction to this freedom was to ...
"When we fail to seek new perspectives, stagnation creeps in." Through realistic graphite and charcoal drawings, Neville Barbour honors people such as the Fon amazons, the Tchamba veneration, and contempories alike.
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"A complicating aspect of realist painting is that there is much that one does not or cannot know or see, yet which is immensely, obsessively interesting—and which is ultimately the whole point of painting."