Here's the second in a series of brief videos called "Basic Painting Tips." (Link to YouTube).



The idea here is to lift up the painting as close as you can to your view of the subject, with the palette as close as possible to the painting. Both palette and painting should be approximately perpendicular to the line of sight (arrows). It's also important that palette and painting are in the same lighting. If the painting is in shadow and the palette is in full sunlight, judging color mixtures becomes needlessly difficult.

Pochade easels for oil painters, like the Open Box M above, place the palette just below the painting, while other systems such as the Parallel Pallette place it just to the side. With watercolor or runny paint, the palette usually has to be more horizontal. The homemade Lightweight Sketch Easel that I've been using lately uses a hinge system that lets you place the palette at any angle.

These short tip videos are intended for beginning painters, but I hope they will interest experienced painters, too. The idea is to grab an excerpt from my longer videos that can serve both as a stand-alone information piece and a teaser for my longer content, which covers both beginning and advanced material.

Future videos will include things like:
• Palette Arrangements (how the colors can be placed)
• Diffusers
• Brush materials
• Brush shapes
• Oil priming
• Overlapping edges
• Drying time
• Shadow colors
• Using enough paint
• Area by area
• Loose block-in

BASIC DRAWING TIPS
• Eye level
• Viewfinders
• Measuring lengths
• Measuring slopes
• Ellipses

Is there a topic you would like to see covered in a future video? Teachers, are there reminders that would help your students? Please let me know in the comments.
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On topic of palette position, you might also check out my previous blog posts:
• Using a sketchbook easel vertically
• Plein-air tip: Go vertical
PAINTING TIP #1: Large to Small)
Full video "Fantasy in the Wild" available in two forms:
Digital download from Gumroad (HD MP4)
DVD (NTSC Region 1)

  ब्लाग जगत बात उन दिनों की है जब नेट उतना सक्रिय नही था और मैं अपनी रचनाएं लिख कर अलग अलग समाचार पत्र और पत्रिकाओं में भेजा करती. काफी छ्प जाती और काफी वापिस भी आ जाती .. देखा जाए तो छपना बेहद खुशी देता और रचना का धन्यवाद सहित लौट कर आना भी […]

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न्यूज़ चैनल और मुद्दे

किसने बिगाडा देश का माहौल … न्यूज चैनलों पर मुद्दा गरमाया हुआ है.  चैंनलों पर अलग अलग पार्टियों के महारथी, पत्रकार और न्यूज एंकर ऊंची आवाज में लगभग चिल्लाते हुए अपनी अपनी बात रख रहे हैं. आखिर किसने बिगाडा… हिंदू, मुस्लमान, वोटरों ने, आरक्षण ने, घर वापसी ने , संघ ने ,चुनावों ने, नेताओ की फालतू बयानबाजी ने, कांग्रेस ने, भाजपा ने, आप पार्टी ने या …..  !!!

आधा घंटा  या 40 मिनट का कार्यक्रम और एक नन्हा सा, छोटा सा ब्रेक ( जोकि बोलने में छोटा सा ब्रेक होता है लेकिन आधा घंटे मॆं लगभग आठ दस बार तो आता ही है) और लड झगड कर कार्यक्रम समय कम होने की वजह से समाप्त हो जाता है और मुद्दा अनसुलझा रह जाता है कि आखिर किसने बिगाडा देश का माहौल… पर मेरे विचार से देश का माहौल बिगाडने मे इन न्यूज चैनलों का ही बडा हाथ है.  

बात सीधी सी है. किसी ने अगर कुछ कहा तो खबरिया चैनल नमक मिर्च लगा कर महज टीआरपी बढाने के लिए बहस करते हैं.  कभी टवीटर को बीच मे धसीट लाते हैं तो कभी बयानों को तोड मरोड कर पेश किया जाता है और सबसे दुखद या हास्यास्पद बात तब होती है जब चैनल एक पक्षीय हो जाते हैं और पार्टी विशेष की भाषा ही बोलते हैं… हां, अपवाद हर क्षेत्र में होते हैं इसमें भी हो सकते हैं पर सच मानिए दिखाई नही देते.. तो मैं ज्यादा समय लिए, कोई ब्रेक लिए एक बात विश्वास पूर्वक कह सकती हूं कि देश का माहौल किसने बिगाडा है !!

न्यूज़ चैनल और मुद्दे आपको कैसा लगा ??? जरुर बताईगा !!

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Susanna Leonard Hill is hosting her 5th Annual Halloweensie Contest on her bog: write a 100-word Halloween story appropriate for children using the words costume, dark and haunt. All the other amazing entries can be found here. My poem is for … Continue reading →

I am setting up recording equipment at the studio so I can film clips now and then, to supplement the workshops I'm running with The Kraken Studio (That's our studio).
It's fun.

A video posted by Viviane schwarz (@schwarzviv) on Oct 18, 2015 at 10:07am PDT

A few videos you might enjoy:



Using simple visual effects techniques that anyone can do—such as green screen, stop motion, and foreground miniatures—Hull and Train Exhibits created a short silent fantasy epic inspired by Melies. (Link to YouTube) Be sure to watch until 9:00 (or skip ahead) to see a behind-the-scenes sequence revealing how each gag was accomplished.

This video is part of the Eyellusions Exhibition opening in Frisco, Texas, billed as a “Victorian-themed time-traveling exploration of the wonderful and vast world of illusions.”



Vox presents a survey of creepy looking babies in Medieval paintings. Why did they look that way, and why did they morph into cute babies later on? (Link to YouTube).

"Imagination" by PermaGrinFilms from PermaGrinFilms on Vimeo.

Stop motion, pixilation, motion control, and a lot of patience went into this real-world animated fantasy of what was inside the mind of a 1980s and 1990s child. (Link to Vimeo) See the Behind the Scenes here.
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Summary: This blog post covers a book project that I worked on from the end of 2014 to the beginning of 2105. I was hired to create a cover illustration and a number of black and white interior illustrations for the book The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True.

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Published on Jan 27, 2013 by StoryCorps “On January 28, 1986, NASA Challenger mission STS-51-L ended in tragedy when the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. On board was physicist Ronald E. McNair, who was the second African American to enter space. But first, he was a kid with big dreams in Lake City, South […]

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It's back to school time!    September promises to be filled with fun theater, exhibitions, and mo'! EXHIBITS! ATLANTA, GA SERIOUSLY SILLY: THE ART & WHIMSY OF MO WILLEMS is on view at the HIGH MUSEUM in Atlanta, GA! The exhibit is based on the 2013 solo show at the Eric Carle Museum, with added original work and cool interactive stuff. Don't miss it! I'm very excited about the

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It's been a couple of weeks since I've been present on my blog, so many things to do! Summer is a very busy time, how do families fit in vacations and outings?! Maybe it's my profession and the start of attending faires that makes it feel like a lot.

I played in iMovie today to see how much I could learn in an hour, the video below is the result. Unfortunately while filming the painting process my phone continued to run out of space, so there are steps missing, like the entire painting of the middle fairy, and the completion of the third fairy.

Yet, alas, it's a time lapse video nonetheless and I learned a lot about iMovie!

Enjoy.

Christopher Lee was the definitive working actor. His career was long, and he appeared in more films than any major performer in the English-speaking world — over 250. What distinguishes him, though, and should make him a role model for anyone seeking a life on stage or screen, is not that he worked so much but that he worked so well. He took that work seriously as both job and art, even in the lightest or most ridiculous roles, and he gave far better, more committed performances than many, if not most, of his films deserved.

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The DVD of "Tyrannosaurs: Behind the Art" is now retail ready.

The DVD version has the 40-minute production about the making of the paintings I did for Scientific American. But it also has a slide show and a special 13-minute bonus feature, where I pose the question: "What can we learn about dinosaurs by sketching a chicken?" The abbreviated YouTube video above gives you a sample of that feature. (Link to YouTube)

बात उन दिनों की है जब गांव के लोग खुले में शौच के लिए जाते थे पर जब से जनता में जागरुकता आई और वो सफाई का महत्व समझने लगे तभी से जबरदस्त बदलाव देखने को मिला … उसी का जीता जागता उदाहरण है हरियाणा के सिरसा के कंगनपुर  गांव जिन्होनें स्वच्छता में एक मिसाल कायम की … लोग इस सफाई से बेहद उत्साहित है और खुशी का इजहार नाच गा कर रहे हैं

Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin – Kanganpur – Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan – TSC – DOST

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ट्रैनिंग के दौरान प्रेरकों को प्रेरित करके उनमें नया जोश पैदा करती हुई

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जय स्वच्छता …

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Many thanks to the Brain Lair for posting Video #3: What Should be Claudette’s Battle Cry. You can read about it HERE.

आम आदमी पार्टी … इसके बारे मे हम कह कर भी कुछ नही कह सकते अचानक चलते चलते इसे झटके लगते हैं  या झटके लगते लगते अचानक बलवान हो जाती है और दुख इस बात का होता है कि अपने ही … खैर आईए आनंद लेते हैं आप के कुछ कार्टून … मेरे दवारा बनाए गए

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