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you have taken with me that you would like posted here, or
info such as art materials websites that you have found useful and
that you would like to share, please send them to me via the contact page
and I will put them on this page. If you are just looking for the
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| Posted
02/04/08 |
| Plaster Casts of Classical Sculpture |
If you are interested in cast drawing
or painting, Giust Plaster Casts makes exquisite
reproductions and prides themselves in maintaining the same
old world methods used by Pietro Caproni in 1911. They are
not cheap but there are a few that are less expensive and still
gorgeous. View their casts online and order a catalogue. |
| www.giustgallery.com |
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| Posted
07/03/08 |
| Lead White |
If you want to know how lead white
pigment was actually made in the 15th century, here is a step
by step photo account of it being made today in exactly the
same way by Natural Pigments. The company is based in Willits,
California. They specialize in supplying art materials that
were used in historical painting since pre-historic times up
to and including the eighteenth century. |
| www.geoffreylaurence.com/leadwhite.html |
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| Posted
07/03/08 |
| Carrying wet canvases back from class... |
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I just found
out about these handy cardboard boxes for carrying wet paintings
(I have not tried them myself yet). They come in packs of
three in various sizes.
The largest size is 16" X 12",
which is about as big as you might want to use in one of my
classes. They are available from Judsons, Cheap
Joe's and Dick
Blick. |
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| Posted
07/03/08 |
| From Bob Shephard... |
"Your site looks great as always! I'm
about to go public with a site of my own. It is www.portraitsbyshep.com.
I really appreciate your critique on my painting "Meredith & Kevin" from
our last correspondence. I corrected the painting and won "Best of
Division" and "Best in Class" with it at the Brenham Fine Arts
League Show, this year. It's
the oldest art competition in Texas." |
| www.portraitsbyshep.com |
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| Posted
28/01/08 |
| Eye Health |
As promised to my 'Expressive Drawing'
class in Seattle (Congratulations to ALL of you, by the way,
what a great class it was!) here is the information on Pinhole
glasses plus some eye exercises you can do to improve and maintain
vision. |
| www.geoffreylaurence.com/eye_exercises.html |
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| Posted
12/9/07 |
| Supply Lists for all Classes |
As I have been asked several times
for the materials list for the classes, they are now
all up to date and on a webpage, with links below the class
descriptions for each one on the 'classes' page. Hope it helps. |
| www.geoffreylaurence.com/supply_lists.html |
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| Posted
10/2/07 |
| Anatomy Class Recommended Book List |
I have finally put that booklist I
promised to you on the site. Only Anatomy books so far but
Painting and Drawing recommended books will be coming soon
(if I can just get some time apart from my work!! You have
no idea how long this website stuff takes.... ) Anyway, take
a quick look: |
| www.geoffreylaurence.com/books.html |
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| Posted
8/19/07 |
| Anatomical Body Art |
From Stacy
Brown, here's a
different way of using anatomy...don't try this on your own
at home!
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| anatomical_tattoo.html |
| Thanks, Stacy, for sending it in. |
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| Posted
6/8/07 |
| More on Cold Black |
| From Mike Corcoran, here
is the proportional mix that Lefranc&Bourguois used in their
Cold Black paint:
60% Ivory Black - 40% Ultramarine Dark
#1
or in French (for those inclined)
"Le Noir Froid
On peut retrouver cette nuances par mélange
de : 60% Noir
d'Ivoire - 40% Outremer Foncé N°1"
Thanks, Mike, for sending it in. |
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7/29/07 |
ART SUPPLY
LINKS |
| New York
Central Art Supplies has been selling art materials
for over 100 yrs to New Yorkers. Andy Warhol's favourite art shop
and mine too. Download their catalogue HERE |
| Artisans is my local art supply
shop here in Santa Fe. They carry practically everything I
need and are very helpful in finding things they don't stock.
Visit their website HERE |
| Maxilla & Mandible have
an amazing assortment of real skeletons and
other stuff. If you want some real bones, try HERE |
| Skulls Unlimited has
every animal skull imaginable both real and repro plus some
interesting fossil reproductions. Visit them HERE |
| The Bone Room also
has a wide selection of human and animal bones and other anatomical
delights plus some pathological oddities. Right now its the
best place to get human skulls and single human bones. Visit
the Bone Room HERE |
| Plastic Skeletons If
you are thinking about buying a plastic skeleton, the best
ones are available from American 3B Scientific. They do
a whole range of them including a really great mini skeleton
( "Shorty") for around $200 and life size fully posable one.
It is sometimes possible to find their skeletons cheaper on
Ebay - look for "American 3B Scientific" or do a search for
"anatomical skeleton". See their website HERE |
| Metroframe have
good floater frames in a variety of woods and finishes at reasonable
prices. You have to attach them to your painting but its really
easy and they supply the screws. Just order online and wait
for them to arrive HERE |
| Sinopia in San
Francisco sell pigments and gilding supplies if you want to
make your own paint or pastels. Visit them HERE |
| Natural Pigments has
some very interesting historical colors. Get in touch with
them and ask them to send you a catalogue HERE |
| Jack
Richeson & Co make
art materials and brushes. I have recently discovered their
wonderful 'Egbert' brushes and cannot praise them enough. Get
in touch with them and ask them to send you a catalogue or
visit their website and download their PDF catologue HERE |
Robert
Doak makes wonderful
and very special oil paints. There is unfortunately no colour
chart but there is now a rudimentary website (its still under
construction). He will send small samples of colours if pushed
and talking with him is always an interesting experience. He
is unique and a true colour master. Minimum mail order is $50.
Try his Blue Ochre, Adobe and Sinopia, also his Flemish White.
ROBERT DOAK & ASSOCIATES, INC.
89 BRIDGE STREET, BROOKLYN,
NY 11201 PHONE: 718 237-1201 or 237-0146 See his website HERE |
Cheap Art Supplies I am putting
the following links on here because all three sites often
have really good sales for basic stuff (I got $200 off my current
easel at Dick Blick) and its useful to keep checking them from
time to time:
www.cheapjoes.com/
www.aswexpress.com/
www.dickblick.com/ |
Easels When it comes to easels,
the company that I have been relying on since 1978 is an italian
company called Mabef. They are made out of beech, really strong
and easy to use and I just love them. I have graduated slowly,
from their lightest weight studio easel (M/07) which has a ratchet
raising system and is still going strong after nearly 30 years,
to my present larger crank raising one. I recommend lightly coating
them with linseed oil before first use.
Visit their website HERE |
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| Do you have any interesting art suppliers'
websites that you use and want to pass on? Send them to me HERE so
we can all share.... |
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| Posted
12/19/06 |
| The Art Materials Information and Education
Network |
| This site is fairly new and is dedicated
to providing the most comprehensive,
up-to-date, accurate, and unbiased factual information about
artists’ materials. Click HERE |
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| Posted
12/16/06 |
| Computer
Life Drawing |
This is sort of fun to watch though
I don't care much for the end drawing. Its a good illustration,
though, of how anatomical knowledge can help:
http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702 |
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| Posted 12/13/06 |
| Check
Mate! |
| If you like to play chess, which I frequently
do - it helps to keep the little grey cells active - check out
the online chess at Chessworld.Net.
My site nickname is 'Goff'. Maybe you will challenge me to a
game! |
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| Posted10/24/06 |
| About Cold Black... |
To all
my students who have taken my venetian painting techniques
class in the past: I am afraid that it now seems definite that
Lefranc & Bourgois are no longer making the magic colour 'Cold
Black' which I have been recommending all these years in the
classes.
Williamsburg do make a version that seems quite good but its
gritty. Holbein makes a Blue Black that I recommend but you
need to add some Ivory Black to it. If you are
going to use my recommended mixtures for a while, maybe the
best thing to do is make up a batch using Mussini Ivory Black
and Ultramarine Blue and fill an empty tube or two (available
from art stores like Artisans). The Mussini paint has the same
buttery qaulities as Lefranc & Bourgois although my wife,
Lyndall Bass (www.Lyndall-Bass-Art.com),
tells me that Windsor & Newton make a very buttery Ivory Black
and Ultramarine Blue. I have yet to try them myself.
I will experiment and try to find the perfect proportion of
black to ultramarine.... check back later when I have posted
it here. |
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