Monday Morning Art School: the perspective of clouds
Drawing clouds—like everything else—is all about measuring angles and distances. But the nifty thing about clouds is that in two minutes they’re totally different. Sneaky little devils.
Living and painting close to nature
These signs were how people predicted the weather before the National Weather Service deployed legions of meteorologists and supercomputers to do it for us.
Painting Massachusetts’ wilderness
. If you really want to know New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, you have to get out of town and head for the hills.
Monday Morning Art School: easels to avoid, and ones to love
Cheap pochade boxes and plein air easels are often a false economy. They’re not robust or well-designed, and you just end up replacing them sooner rather than later.
Practicing polite deflection
They came in their hundreds and their thousands, and they kept standing in my view. The nerve.