Art Center Information’s Weekly Review

R. D. Burton: Practice drawing for future painting
R. D. Burton: Practice drawing for future painting

In our article on Tuesday, titled: Artists: The Great Communicators, we said: the artist will find out that the more carefully and searchingly they look, the more they find the subject eluding their ability to record it on paper, the greater should become their ability to persist. For more, click on picture>

 

Maria Howard Weeden: Watercolor portrait
Maria Howard Weeden: Watercolor portrait

 

 

On Wednesday, we discussed one of our favorite mediums in the article titled: The Delightful Medium. We wrote: With watercolor, you can adapt the techniques that work for you and successfully incorporate your own aims and ideas once you have enough experience and have gained confidence. For more, click on the picture. >>>

 

 

Artist, R. D. Burton, Sketching "father time" for his drawing and painting.
Artist, R. D. Burton, Sketching “father time” for his drawing and painting.

 

In the article titled, Some of The Agony an Artist Goes Through to a Completed Painting, which we discussed on Thursday, we talked about some agonizing moments artist R. D. Burton is going through to prepare a new graphite drawing and then a painting. Click on the picture to the right to read more.

 

 

 

Artist, R. D. Burton, at work on new drawing
Artist, R. D. Burton, at work on new drawing

 

On Friday, we found Mr. Burton still agonizing, he said: “I am one of those type of artists that demands perfection. Some artist have said that I lose my artistic freedom being so restrictive.” …(then)… “It’s driving me wild thinking about it. For some time now, I have been creating it in my mind.” Click on the picture to the right to read more.

 

 

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