Driving With Your Artistic License

Creating art is a journey and traveling it can be a very rewarding experience. Learning about technique through reading books and magazines and watching videos or talking to other artists is like looking out the windshield. Hands on painting and sculpting, the act of creating, needs to fill miles. There is no substitute for doing! [...]

Strappo Art Printmaking

  I have recently had the opportunity to reform a friendship with an artist I knew in Levittown, NY. Harold Garde was a subtle art influence in my early development. His daughter and I were high school friends which led to hanging out at each other’s homes.  This of course put me in contact with [...]

Art Core Newsletter Aug/Sept Online Now

The Art Core Aug/Sept newsletter edition is now online  And it’s still FREE The feature Interview is with Louise P Sloane whose work focuses on geometric forms, grids, repetitive motifs and lushly layered color with a fascination with mark making as a fundamental principal A article by  Jeremy Fitz  on Robert Raushenberg an American Collage [...]

Where Art Begins, A Visual Language

I believe that everyone wants to express some inner mood or feeling through a visual language that others can understand. Rembrandt, aside from all his other incredible work, expressed his inner exploration through self portraits. Dozens of these works span his lifetime, giving expression to a visual language that speaks about each separate period in [...]

2011 ARTCORE NEWSLETTER

ARTCORE Summer Issue online now In this issue… Artists and Art History. Juan Gris – The Intellectual Cubist Painter & Sculptor From Spain By Annette Labedzki Art Appreciation 101 By Marianne Navarro Artists Ask Questions About Art Marketing By Aletta De Wal Free Art Books, downloads, art contests, answers to your questions, and a whole [...]