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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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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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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…
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Harold Speed: Two essential books
A Master Legacy Harold Speed (11 February 1872 – 20 March 1957) was a famous English painter and member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. His work, especially his portraits, in both oil and charcoal, is exceptionally elegant and demonstrates a great technical mastery. But the most notable thing about Harold Speed is that,…
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Josef Albers Interaction of Color
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The true passion of Josef Albers (1888-1976) was teaching. A German artist who studied at the Bauhaus and was later exiled to the United States, he dedicated his life as an educator to an ambitious project; teaching his students to SEE. Applying a strict method, one removed from conventional academic practice, his work involved…