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If you have questions just ask. the only way you will really understand color is to read a good book on the subject.

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Complemetary Colors are based on the after image. If you stare at a color on a white sheet of paper you will see the after image of the exact opposite color. (See The American Flag by Jasper Johns. H ...

It's pointless to talk to you people.

DJorgensen I found your statements on color interesting and cool but based on the relativity of psycology, and not on the physics based world we live in.

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Hey I just gave you the be all end all list 0f the worlds greatest watercolor painters. I made comments based on what they believe watercolor should be. and you come back with this!

"anyway ur sec ...

In response to the last post.

Pyle is teaching you how to see in terms of value. If you can not see value you can not make true art.

To all.

If you are unfamilure with Pyle and his work as w ...

I will answer your questions with this.

Do they reveal a new truth or help remind us of and old one?
Not a relative truth but an absolute one.
Do they speak to most of the people most of the time ...

your images are broken.

I don�t know where you went to school, but true watercolor is defined like this.

1. It must be transparent. If your paint gets opaque then it is not true watercolor.
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I don�t know where you went to school, but true watercolor is defined like this.

1. It must be transparent. If your paint gets opaque then it is not true watercolor.

2. The action of the water i ...

I thought it might be fun to take a look at Haddon Sundblom being it the holidays and all. He was the American Illustrator that gave Coke it's Santa and pretty much defined Santa for the world.

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Impaler wrote:

"I seriously doubt the validity of any value judgment of a teaching as an absolute. The pragmatist would have us know that absolute truths are inherently unknowable, ergo the only re ...

I can agree with the need to be an individual. I also think that the lack of rules is what is wrong with fledgling artists. They go to art class and the instructor walks in and nails a rope to the wal ...

I read most of what he said.

I'm just interested in if other artist think it is important or not. I believe it is.
Thats what the poll is about.

I'm interested in why the two people who vote ...

You don't think the wisdom of the Father of American Illustration is important for you to read? You believe it's common sens?

I assure you that it is not.

My vote is yes.

Old thread, stuff out of Creative Illustration.

Is what Pyle says important or not vote and comment.

AS TO THE ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION AS TO COLOR AND FORM

Light-All objects of nature are mad ...

YVerloc,

you just don't get it.

Ok how about this idea.

Entertainment lets us escape from our selves.

Art makes us look into ourselves.

Big differance.

Question, do any of you paint for only yourself or do you have an ...

I disagree, if you read what the painters themselves say about their work you will be amazed at what they say their painting really means. These guys had their idea of reality, their philosophical and ...

The subject mater is not the thing. The IDEA behind the painting is. What does your painting mean?

Example. Picasso would paint a woman. That woman would represent every woman, more importantly it ...

In my studies I have come across several things that interest me about painting. One is that most of the great artists of the twentieth century had a philosophic issue which they wanted to express vis ...

Charles Hawthorn says, "Never paint more than three inches without changing colors"

Now that means you change the color by value or by saturation.

Not switching to a contrasting color, though y ...

Maybe you should read the long posts.

One more question to all.

Why is it so difficult for artists in 2003, to get together and define art for them selves?

Illustration is information given to an audiance with prior knowledg. That is the definition of Illustration.

When you draw a map to a party for your friends and say hey this is a map to my part , ...

Look we always end up in the same place with discussions like this one. What is Fine art and What is Illustration? There are many Great Illustrators that could stand on their own up against any of the ...

Fine art VS. Illustration. I do agree that there is a differance. but, I believe the definition of fine art coming from the artist and Illustration comming from some one else is wrong. Rembrandt and S ...

Art is a responce to truth. If you do not believe in truth then art is an expression of self truth. Artists who believe in truth, see that truth in the created world around them and respond to it. Som ...

Hey you get what you pay for.

Pro-bono work can get you in the door, and in fact helped me get in the door. But after a while you just get sick of working for free.

Very Happy

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What does it have to do with art?

Exactly. Paint, brushes, canvase, has nothing to do with art. Art is independant of the medium. Once one understands that then one can start to actually create ar ...

Not to start a yelling match but isn't this what you guys are needing to figure out?

Are theses some of the questions that need to be answered?

If I'm wrong sorry.

I found this on one of the ...