Artists’ Blog – Art School Online

Guess what?  Leonardo DaVinci didn’t think tracing was cheating . He studied perspective for his oil art by going outdoors and placing a sheet of glass across two easels to trace landscapes.  This wasn’t cheating; it was part of his lifelong search for truth and accuracy in his art.
Read more about this in Barry Waldman’s [...]

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Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962, Andy Warhol, American 1928-1987), Acrylic on canvas, series of 32 paintings, each canvas 20″x 16″ (50.8cm x 40.6cm). Currently in the collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Warhol first exhibited his series of Campbell’s soup can paintings in 1962, with the 32 canvases hung so the bottom of [...]

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In comparison to many other art forms, oil painting is still considered relatively new. Oil painting is the use of oil in pigments in order to paint. Oil paintings date back to the 1400’s. Before oil painting, paint was mixed with plaster found in frescoes or egg in tempera paints. The invention of oil paintings [...]

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The portrait of the Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world’s most beautiful and recognizable artistic paintings. Leonardo didn’t paint this classic work of art from a photograph but he could have if he’d been born about 350 years later.
What could make a better gift idea than a loved one’s [...]

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Alfred Daniels, painter, teacher and writer of books on art, was born in London and trained at Woolwich Art School from 1943 to 1944. As a young graduate, he toured Florence, Venice, Ravenna and Siena, where he was deeply impressed by the Italian Primitives.
Known for his interest in ordinary people doing ordinary things, [...]

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