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LOUIS RYAN
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Whites and How to Use them
From Left to Right: Lead, Titanium and Zinc White mixed with Vermilion I own three different whites: Zinc White (unexceptional but...
Verticals, Horizontals and Curves
Corner of the Church of St Stae, Venice, Sargent, oil , 72 x 56cm, c. 1913, private collection In his book Composition of Outdoor...
Models and Artists
A year or so ago I visited the Zorn Museum in Mora, Sweden, with another artist who pointed out that in the painting below Zorn had used...
Artists using the sightsize technique
I paint using the sightsize method which means placing the image alongside the subject. When I stand back from the subject and image, I...
Forest Landscape
Last week I had a couple of days with no students to teach which happened to coincide with some very sunny weather. I made the most of it...
Stealing from the Old Masters
Good artists copy; great artists steal. (Pablo Picasso) The aphorism above is glib (and probably apocryphal), yet it brings to mind a...
Sight-size painting – Philip de László
Above is a Youtube video of some film dated September 1928 of Philip de László painting a portrait. Hungarian born Philip de László had a...
Art as an Investment
There are two types of assets…one delivers a return…such as rental property, stocks or a farm and [one] you buy where you hope that...
Portraits of Couples
Although I have painted husbands and wives separately, I have yet to paint a portrait of a husband and wife together. I looked at some...
Character in Portraiture
Painting an accurate likeness is a matter of time and hard work, but painting the look that unveils the character of the model is the...
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