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Highlights
Six Ways to Get Dynamic Action in FloralPainting, With James
Sulkowskiby James Sulkowski page 8
Improve Rapidly by Making Many Starts,With Nelson Shanksby M.
Stephen Doherty page 16
Getting Accurate Light in YourLandscapes, With Matt Smithby M.
Stephen Doherty page 30
Paint Vibrant Portraits With a Three-Color Oil Palette, With
Dawn Whitelawby M. Stephen Doherty page 44
Get Pure Colors From a Palette Knife,With Carol Swinneyby Linda
Morton page 56
Mastering Edges, Light, and ColorHarmony in Still Lifes, With
Joni Falkby M. Stephen Doherty page 62
Make Acrylic Landscapes Come Alive FromPhotographs, With William
Hookby Bob Bahr page 74
First, Master the Figure, With Ted SethJacobsby ADora Phillips
page 88
Harnessing Tradition and Design, With
Sam Vokeyby Linda S. Price page 96
Todays Still Life, With John Morraby John A. Parks page 106
Make Accurate Color Choices Using aPrismatic Palette, With John
PhillipOsborneby Mark G. Mitchell page 112
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What Great Teachers Offer Us
On January 7, 2009, when I posted a blog on American Artists
website
(www.forums.myamericanartist.com/blogs) asking How Did Teachers
HelpYou? a number of artists wrote about the concise instructions,
motivating
encouragement, and personal attention they received from
high-school, col-lege, and workshop instructors. Many listed the
specific pieces of advice thatremain fixed in their memories since
they first studied drawing and painting.
Those reader comments encouraged us to sift through past issues
of
American Artist, Workshop, and Drawingmagazines to identify
articles on
some of the best teachers in the country. We made an effort to
select a rangeof subjects, styles of expression, and pedagogical
methods so that you can use
this Highlights magazine to further your own art education.Some
of the featured instructors are prepared to help you tackle the
chal-
lenges of painting portraits, whereas others focus on capturing
posed models
with accuracy and expression. Nelson Shanks (page 16) and Dawn
Whitelaw(page 44) are two distinguished teachers who are adept at
presenting the
human figure alone or in the context of a rich and elaborate
setting.Many artists have come to enjoy the pleasures and
challenges of painting
landscapes, and several of the teachers featured here are
experts on selectingmaterials, planning the sequential development
of a painting, and bringing
their own points of view to the resulting pictures. William
Hook(page 74)deals specifically with the use of acrylic paints in
the studio and on location;
and Matt Smith (page 30) discusses ways of using oil colors to
capture thelight, atmosphere, and seasonal markings in nature.
Several instructors continue the grand tradition of painting
still life
arrangements of flowers, fruits, vegetables, and other objects.
John PhillipOsborne (page 112) explains how to premix your palette
of colors and work
under a cool north light, and John Morra (page 106) follows a
classicalapproach to painting unusual collections of antiques,
bricks, and industrialequipment.
If there are other great teachers you would like to read about
or introduceto other artists, be sure to join the community of
practicing artists who are
receiving the American Artiste-newsletters and posting comments
in theforums section of the magazines website (www.forums
.myamericanartist.com).
M. Stephen Doherty
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