Art Blog for The Inspiration Place
How a Watercolor Portrait Comes Together
Step by Step..
New blog post by Miriam Schulman, @schulmanArt.
 |
| Most recently complete portrait, View full portfolio |
My portraits of children are owned and cherished by parents throughout New York. My usual practice is to spend time getting to know the family I am going to paint, studying them, taking as many as hundred photographs. Back in the quiet and seclusion of my own studio I paint the finished...
Curly Hair Has a Renaissance
The New Feminine IdealÂ
by guest blogger @lindsayleboyer, Lindsay LeBoyer
Currently modern women favor hair as sleek and straight and possible. However, that modern ideal has not always been in fashion and curls are starting to make a comeback. Since many salon straightening treatments contain formaldehyde, women everywhere are embracing their natural textures....
by guest blogger @lindsayleboyer, Lindsay LeBoyer
Celebrated Portraitist and Genre Painter Frans Hals
Dutch Art in New York
by Miriam Schulman
 |
| Trademark jutting elbow and knuckle on his hips |
The Dutch have revered Franz Hals as part of the holy trinity of artists coming from their country that include Rembrandt and Vermeer. The current exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art does a great job placing Hals in context of art history. The curators relate the painter to the past and also to the future...
- Previous
- Page 2 of 2
-
Next