• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  STEREO AUDIO CAPTURE

  In my latest YouTube video you'll notice stereo mics clipped on the sides of my usual easel setup. These communicate wirelessly with...

  Street, Video

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  SHADOWS AND LIGHT

  Shadows are not the absence of light-they're just areas lit by weaker and differently colored sources. New video: "How to Paint Light...

  Video, Painting

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  ILLUSTRATION BY BALLIOL SALMON

  A.J. Balliol Salmon (1868-1953) was a British illustrator who painted high-society subjects using pencil, watercolor, gouache and pen. Various...

  Print, Charcoal, Artist, Pen, Painting, Ink, Works, Media, Drawing, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration, Magazine, Oil, Paper, Pencil

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  PAINTING IN GARDENS

  I've got tips for painting in the garden coming up in the April/May 2023 issue of International Artist. Here's one of the tips: Leaves...

  Painting, Artist, Magazine

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  BAM LOGO

  While I was a college student at UC Berkeley, I got a part-time job as a designer and paste-up artist at BAM magazine. BAM was a music...

  Artist, Drawing, Print, Design, Designer, Pen, Ink, Logo, Magazine

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  ETCHING BY CALLOT

  Beggar with Pot, etching by Jacques Callot, 1623 Wikipedia says that Callot "made more than 1,400 etchings that chronicled the life...

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  'I'M DONE WITH GIRLS ON ROCKS.'

  After painting dozens of successful calendar illustrations, Maxfield Parrish felt that his subjects were getting stale, and he wanted...

  Illustration, Magazine, Painting, Advertising, Street, Art

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  MAXFIELD PARRISH'S EDISON MAZDA CALENDARS

  The Edison lightbulb company commissioned American illustrator Maxfield Parrish to create paintings for a series of calendars, which...

  History, Illustration, Painting

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  'TO QUICKEN OUR SOULS'

  Harvey Dunn said of his teacher Howard Pyle, "His main purpose was to quicken our souls that we might render service to the majesty...

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  WHAT DO WATERCOLOR SOCIETIES SAY ABOUT GOUACHE?

  Can you enter a painting that uses gouache into the annual competitions of the various watercolor societies? What are their rules about...

  Media, Mixed, Watercolor, Digital, Works, Painting, Acrylic, Exhibition, Paper, Pastel, Print, Gouache, Oil, Board

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  BISTABLE PERCEPTS

  Most people are familiar with the face / vase illusion. Psychologists refer to it as a "bistable percept." A bistable percept is an...

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  SOLOMON'S STREAM

  Stream scene in watercolor by Solomon J. Solomon

  Watercolor

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  PORTRAIT BY PETERSSEN

  Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen painted this portrait of his artist friend Kalle Løchen in 1885. Eilif Emanuel Peterssen , Kalle Løchen,...

  Painting, Artist, Oil, Canvas

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  CHANGING COLOR PREFERENCES OVER TIME

  If you had the impression that cars were more colorful in the past, you'd be right. Thirty years ago, green was quite popular, but...

  Museum, Advertising, White

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  DRAWING OVER WATERCOLOR WASHES

  Here's an urban sketch from Montreal using the technique of fountain pen over watercolor washes. More about this technique at this...

  Drawing, Watercolor, Sketch, Pen

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  PEN OVER WATERCOLOR

  Here's a strategy for sketching subjects with a lot of surface complexity. In this YouTube video , I demo a sketch of a woodpile using...

  Video, Acrylic, Sketch, Drawing, Watercolor, Artist, White, Painting, Pen

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  WHAT DID ANDREW WYETH MEAN BY "DRYBRUSH?"

  What did Andrew Wyeth mean when he called his paintings "drybrush?" Undersnow by Andrew Wyeth, drybrush, 1977 I've found Wyeth's use...

  Mixed, Artist, Painting, Works

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  E.H. SHEPARD MEETS E.A. ABBEY

  Pen illustration by E.A. Abbey When Ernest H. Shepard (1879-1976) was a young, aspiring artist, he dreamed of meeting the reigning...

  Artist, School, Painter, Pen, Ink, Works, Illustration, White

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  THE ARCHITECT

  The architect stands above us, framed by soaring arches, holding his plan for the structure that is being built by workers scurrying...

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• By Gurney Journey   -   Mar 29, 2023

  A COTTAGE GARDEN

  A Gardener in a Cottage Garden by Helen Allingham, watercolor, 28 x 37.5cm

  Watercolor

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