Tag: advice for artists

  • What is Perspective for Artists all about?

    This video introduces the concept of perspective for artists. Perspective is the technical way that we make a two dimensional drawing on a piece of paper appear to be three dimensional. With award winning illustrator, Shoo Rayner. See my Perspective 101 course here: 

  • Drawing Skyscrapers with Sarah Silverwood Taylor

    In Part Two of my series of Videos with Sarah Taylor Silverwood, we go to the top of the New public library and look out on the rooftops of Birmingham and draw the tall buildings in front of us, while discussing ideas and drawing techniques. Sarah is preparing for a residency in Chicago where she…

  • God Has Not Left The Building

    Do you take time in the day to contemplate your existence or do you put your head down and try not to think about it? Religious people would call it prayer. Non-religious people would call it time-out, mindfulness, meditation or just a waste of time. I wouldn’t call myself a religious person. Personally I have…