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Perfecting your art

by Henk ter Heide on Thursday October 2, 2008

Paintings by Hidemi Tada and Rod Buckle and drawings by George Cwirko-Godycki.

Hidemi Tada’s study of old masters
Sometimes I come across site from artist at which they ordered there work in chronological order.
On the first page you’ll find there first painting, on the second page their second and so on. Of course usually you don’t look further then there second or third page because artist hardly ever start out with there most interesting work.
Hidemi Tada ordered the paintings in his Flickr account in the same way. But luckily for us Flickr doesn’t present work that way. You get send to a page were you can get an overview of a set.
Usually I attach great value on my first impression. If I like the colors and the overall feel of the set I’ll pick some picture from the middle of the page to look at. If I like them I start at the start and look at the whole set.
Hidemi Tada is learning how to paint by the old and tested method of copying the masters.
studying Bouguereau
Studying Bouguereau by Hidemi Tada

Rod Buckle’s watercolors
Rod Buckle is also studying to be a painter. He paints lovely watercolors landscapes and cityscapes.
Going by the comments he write under some of his paintings I imagine that he takes a lot of time planning his paintings.

George Cwirko-Godycki’s strange drawings
George Cwirko-Godycki draws a blog. Literally draws a blog in that he doesn’t comment on his drawings. But paging back to the beginning of his blog I found that improving that the goal of his blog is to improve his drawing skills.
His drawings are about as strange as the name of his blog: Common in coastal waters.

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Painting a city

by Henk ter Heide on Friday May 9, 2008

Describing the art work of Stephen Magsig (painting), Michael Pieczonka (painting) and Rod Buckle (drawing and painting).

Searching the Web for artsites I come across a fair amount of daily painters. Usually they are people with good paintings skills but not that much imagination. Almost all of them paint still lives of apple and pears.
But not the site Postcards from Detroit from Stephen Magsig.
Stephen lives and works in Detroit and fills his site with painted highlights of this city.
Although painted with oil his painting look almost as though they were drawn. With an eye for detail.

CityReflections
City Reflections by Stephen Magsig

Michael Pieczonka also paints with oil. His subject are both buildings and ships. His painting feel as the traditional oil paintings. Much attention for color and less for shape.

Rod Buckle draws and paints with ink and watercolor. His subject matter is diverse. Buildings, nature, old air planes and a few paintings of people at work.
Some of his drawings are sketches. Others are very nice watercolor paintings. Some with a great eye for detail, some with a lot of attention for color.

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