From my latest newsletter:

Physicality in painting.

Paintings have a physical quality. A painting is a living entitity, it has character, personality, and anatomy.

In looking at some paintings, even of the masters, there is something disturbing about the work, often highly realistic, but they are somehow bloated, lacking in bone structure and in muscle tone. This goes a long way to explain our gut reaction to art.


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Books and passions

For the love of art.
Essays on major artists in history.

ABD. A Victorian alphabet.

Painting in Oils.
Teaching notes from Ryno's workshops.

Curvilinear perspective.

The sounds of Venice.
A movie I made while
painting before dawn...

Croptool.
The perfect application for cropping your images, and it is free. Designed by Klaus Major and myself.

Thumbnails.
How to make thumbnails for your website (Mac)

A chat on Fine Music Radio
An interview with Philip Todres.