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We Wish You a Merry Christmas!
And we would like to thank YOU for a great and successful year. In 2019 we met a lot of amazing new tutors and partners.
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in artistravel international news, Artists, Creativity, Painting
The Hidden Math in Van Gogh's "Starry Night"
Circular brush strokes create a night sky filled with swirling clouds and eddies of stars. Van Gogh, among other impressionists, seemed to capture light differently than their predecessors. Rather capturing its motion than its brightness. The brain recognizes the contrast between the colours blue/black and yellow/white, but there is no blending, so the painting seems to pulse, flicker and radiate oddly. So through many little circled brush strokes, Van Gogh is actually able to depict how light moves.
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in Creativity, Travel, Sketching
Drawing Outside in Fall and Winter
Even in fall and winter you don't have to stop going out for a sketch.
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in Creativity, Travel, Painting
Painting the Evening Sun in Watercolours
Looking for tips to improve your art? In this monthly installment, we've collected tips and tricks that we think you'll find helpful.
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in Artists, Creativity
Art in the Age of Instagram
People visit museums for art - of course. But it is not only the desire to look at the exhibited art and admiring it – one of the reasons people of the 21st century to go to the museum is to capture the observed art and share it with others over social media.
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in artistravel international news, Artists, Creativity, Travel, Painting, Sketching
Acrylics, Sketchbooks and a Lot of Footage for Youtube
We had a colourful YOUTUBE & filming weekend in Frankfurt last week! New video-tutorials coming SOON!
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in Creativity, Painting
Painting Fallen Leaves
Looking for tips to improve your art? In this monthly installment, we've collected tips and tricks that we think you'll find helpful.
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in Artists, Creativity, Painting
Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Ugly Old Men
Imagine you are wandering around in a museum, admiring paintings of stunning landscapes, walking through aesthetically pleasing halls, standing in front of skilfully created sculptures of flawless-looking bodies, everything looks fancy and artistically perfected – and then it happens: you see a super ugly medieval baby. Interesting enough, there is actually a reasonable explanation for that uncanny depiction of human infants.
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in Creativity, Painting
Creating Inner Paintings
We show you how to let yourself be conducted by your own inner experiences.
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in artistravel international news, Creativity, Travel
I Am Going on an Art Holiday and with Me I Take…
When you are going on an art holiday, there are some essentials you will certainly miss if you forgot them. People learn from past mistakes, but in order not to regret not taking some stuff with you and end up missing them (as it is of importance to keeping organised on an art holiday)…here is a list of 7 items essentially to take with you!