The purpose of this project has been to take a technical analysis of a painting by Caravaggio, use it as means to inform the materials and process, and then replicate the painting with the intent of conducting a technical analysis on the result.
Originally trained as an oil painter, Ali Cavanaugh’s first watercolor was created for a trade for some carpentry renovation on the family house...
Welcome to Part 1 of a three-part series by Timothy Joseph Allen, MFA, on Caravaggio and bridging the gap between technical analysis, theory, and performance.
“Simplicity in my works is sometimes almost overwhelming, because what I really want is a clear, distinct story that gives enough to the viewer,” says the artist Mark Pugh, who is on the faculty of Realism Live.
Today's painting of the week is by Zhaoming Wu, who recently released the eight-hour art video workshop, "Enchanting Portraits."
Contemporary realism artist Morgan Irons shares her experience and insights on finding the stories that inspire you.
This artist's paintings are created in a hyperrealist, graphic-novel style but have nuances and creative departures that separate his work from the traditional lots seen at ...
For me, a portrait painting starts with an idea of a certain feeling I want in my painting. I was looking for a serious representation of a military man who is at the same time melancholic and shows his ...
"Life in Charcoal" is an unforgettably potent and extraordinary record of some of the wrecked and abandoned lives left scattered like jetsam in the wake of the American Dream.
I embarked on a four-year journey to paint a copy of “David with the Head of Goliath,” determined to make my copy as close as possible to the original, from technique to scale to materials.