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A year Inside The Art Digger Studio Community
From one artist’s dream to a shared home Last year, I finally brought one of my dreams to life: creating The Art Digger Studio, a community of fellow artists. It’s a shared space where we learn, explore, and grow together. Since then, the community has been steadily expanding, and I’m proud to have such wonderful…
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Felipe Alonso; painting with courage
It is said that the biggest challenge for an artist is to find his way, his own voice. At the beginning of the learning process, technical achievements and execution skills attract all the attention. Then comes the admiration for other artists, the imitation of style, the inspiration of the forerunners. But focussing just on technical…
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Mylar a support for drawing and painting
I confess (and I know I’m not alone in this) that I profess a kind of fetishism for traditional artist materials. For example, I enjoy the feelings I get with drawing papers with their different textures and shades of white; I love sharpening a good pencil with a blade or sliding the natural fibers of…
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Benjamin Björklund, a unique voice from Uppsala
Things happen in mysterious ways. Not so many years ago, an artist acquired notoriety through a slow and laborious pathway made of exhibitions, galleries and collectors to end up hopefully in the biennial and public recognition. Nowadays, social media has become a gigantic gallery where many artists make their work accesible to the rest of…
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Oil color palette; tips for a personal choice
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After all that has been written about the oil color palette I have decided to add my own contribution. I do it because I would have liked to find something similar, to put my thoughts in order, when I began to worry about this issue in the old days of the academy. And also because…
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Vincent Desiderio; the technical narrative
A workshop memory I remember that, during a workshop I attended years ago, Antonio López held an informal colloquium at the end of the day. Urged by the questions, he talked to us about painting and painters; about his predilections and his rejections. Antonio López is not usually very condescending with other artist’s work; it…
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10 Diebenkorn rules and a quote by Mondrian
It must have happen in the time when Richard Diebenkorn once again left disoriented critics and observers when he came back to abstraction. An artistic trip, that of Diebenkorn, that they found it hard to follow. It was in his full artistic maturity when he wrote ten rules (which he called studio notes) to hang…
