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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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In memorandum George

by Henk ter Heide on Tuesday September 30, 2008

Saturday last I was told that George had died.
To be honest I had to think for a few moments who he was. “You know that big strong bold guy with the motorcycle”.
I knew.

In my world there are two kind of people:
Some people walk into your favorite bar or you place of work and except when they sit next to you and start talking too you, you might never notice them.
Then there are the kind of people who do make an impression.
If they walk into the place you feel them coming and you know them. Even if you were never properly introduced.

George was the second kind of people.
The kind I fear when I first meet them.
I’m not sure why I fear them but I think it is because I feel that I will never influence them the way I do with the first kind of people. George was the kind of people who could have influenced me. Some one who would have taught me something.

I will never know how he would have influenced me. But I do know that by his passing something will change at cafe the Musketier.

You’ll be missed.

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Monsters with eyeballs

by Henk ter Heide on Tuesday May 27, 2008

Paintings by Marco Bucci and Billy George.

At Marco’s Stuff you’ll find a nice collection of portraits and funny paintings.
halloween_eyeball
Halloween eyeball by Marco Bucci

Billy George paints a lot for animation films and video games

ruinedearth3
Ruined earth 3 by Billy George

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