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Steps to Infinity
28 Dec 2021

Steps to Infinity

by David D | posted in: Blog, Painting | 2

Our fascination with the feeling of a view of Infinity has an ancient history in visual art.  This is also true of our fascination with our perception of water’s translucence.  But combining these two perceptions into a single image rarely … Continued

#arthistory #artinstruction, #Misty #LightingEffects, #oilpainting, #PaintingFog, #translucence, #visualperception, #waterreflections, #waterscape
Pathways into Abstraction
30 Sep 2021

Pathways into Abstraction

by David D | posted in: Blog, Classes, Painting | 2

Yesterday I hiked through a salt marsh near me. I was wearing tall rubber boots to allow tromping through the marsh onto muddy flats.  This was a mistake and, an opportunity.  Suddenly one foot, then the other sunk deeply into … Continued

#abstraction, #arthistory, #artinstruction, #Misty #LightingEffects, #oilonaluminum, #oilpainting, #visualperception, #waterreflections, #waterscape
Choreographing the City with Abstract Energy
30 Mar 2021

Choreographing the City with Abstract Energy

by David | posted in: Blog, Classes, Painting, Uncategorized | 0

Da Vinci observed problems with linear perspective and hard outlines. We don’t see like that! He saw that natural perspective curves, perhaps as the result of our eye’s convex lens. He further observed that edges were not sharp and hard … Continued

#abstraction, #arthistory, #artinstruction, #cityscape, #linearperspective, #visualperception, NYCart
Building Mystery Through Glazes
19 Mar 2021

Building Mystery Through Glazes

by David | posted in: Blog, Classes, Painting | 15

You and I create the picture of our world more from within than from without, that is we are less reliant on our eyes or more precisely, the photons that touch our neural tissues than on our cortex. Our cortex … Continued

#arthistory, #artinstruction, #Atmosphere, #glazing, #visualmystery, #visualperception
Cultivating Illusions
25 Apr 2020

Cultivating Illusions

by David | posted in: Blog, Classes, Painting | 6

We begin by learning how to see, hear, speak, touch, and walk. None of this is automatic. If we are blindfolded for a period of time after birth our visual cortex will not fully develop.  If we have an untreated … Continued

#arthistory, #arthistory #artinstruction, #landscapepainting, #visualperception

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