Hi Brent! ... Timeless and mysterious beauty, forever unattainable... I sympathise. ... Ashwari Rai.I had to look her up. We have a regular Bollywood movie on...
Friends, Once I stopped looking at the fashion magazines that had so tormented me with my own unworthiness as a teenager, and once a couple of years had gone...
Hello Cynthia, A noble schnozz, yes, a noble anything, for that matter. What was that wonderful story..? Cyrano de Bergerac. Surely that was a tale about true...
Ryno, I think it has to do with a balance of love and knowledge...love and truth. And I'm floundering at it like most of us. What we see, and what we paint,...
Hello to All, Ryno,Cynthia, Ryno,I would have to agree with Cynthia. Perhaps when as children we drew a nose as a line,a mark on the face,and then later after...
Hi babe, hi Cynthia, and all of you. I totally agree with both of you in the necessity for knowledge as well as intuition and observation. Whenever there is...
My good friend Claudia died yesterday. Claudia was born and grew up near Venice, and moved to Cape Town later. Together, we loved art, me in my romantic way,...
It is when the right colour is in the right place, that the painting is done. It does not matter if the technique is smooth as airbrush, or rough as a...
I have been very preoccupied lately... I read the Hockney book "Secret 'Knowledge", and I was not so much impressed, as mortified. First, I did not only read...
I have a camera lucida.? I figured out how to use it for "drawing", only it isn't drawing.? It's a party trick, and a completely different sort of thing from...
Hi Cynthia, Cameras lucida are also sold as toys, but this one is the type probably used by Ingres, and you are right, it is only for drawing, and is limited...
Yesterday I placed the last images of "Maunck" on my WIP 4 page. http://www.johnbaselmans.com/Wip/Wip4/Wip4.htm Over 70 steps how I did this drawing. For me a...
Hiya folks, Ryno, I would suggest that Holbein used a glass with a fixed point as seen in Durer's etching. Giorgione and Titian were probably the first to ...
Hi Brent, ... There is one problem with Durer's model. It doesn't work. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit11/durer.gif Remember that the points...
Why am I being spammed? I do not appreciate being subjected to this type of advertising. Please ensure you use a spam filter ... this is not the first time. M...
Hello people My Christmas and New Years wishes for you are love and good health. Hereby a special presentation, because I found out why these days are not...
Hi Kitten, My apologies for the spam that gets through from time to time. I really dislike it too. What I do is to remove and ban the senders immediately, so...
Hi Ryno, Thanks for taking the time to let me know. I wasn't aware that it actually gets through via pseudo members, otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned it and...
Now look at this, Kitten... A tidy mystery. ... When somebody says "off our Indian Ocean coast" it usually is because they live within reach of two oceans....
Every few years I return to one of my favourite subjects, swimmers, in the sea or in rivers. The theme of the bathers has been around for a long time. I even...
Warm wishes for a wonderful Christmastime to us all. I am exploring the possibility of doing a newsletter for friends, students, and galleries. You can have a...
As artists, as people, we are offered gifts daily, but, like a cup of tea, they only become ours when we accept them. This may be why I believe so strongly in...
Ryno, This reminds me of the old saying, that "a mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child."? Artists really do need to take responsibility for what they...
I think you may be right, Cynthia, There is so often a depressing sameness of art in any town If not all modernistic, then they are all some kind of cutesey...
Hi Cynthia, I forgot to wish you all the best for your new home in this New Year... ... All towns are great. It is friends that make them so, and friendships ...
A very happy Valentines day to you all. May we all produce paintings of wild romance! I have started a newsletter limited at first to personal friends and ...
Good stuff, Ryno.? Please continue to send these! Cynthia my art studio: http://www.cynthialarge.com "Do all your work as though you had a thousand years to...
Some years ago I was given a few tubes and bottles of mediums by some of my students. Now, sorting my studio, It has come to me that it is time to throw them...
Hello people. This year was for me a productive one. I made several new drawings. http://www.johnbaselmans.com/New_Drawings/New_Draw.htm) I also wrote 8 new...
I do not want the entire group seeing these photos.Because some may recognize me. Here's the link: http://firstolady.zoomshare.com/files/photos.htm Enjoy babe...
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