3 portfolio improvements

Recently I’ve been doing student portfolio assessments. It can be one of the most enjoyable experiences of the semester, it can also be one of the most soul-destroying. You spend a semester teaching students, investing your time, energy and emotions …

Podcasts!

I’ve been listening to some visual art podcasts recently, and I thought their sources might be of interest. The first is by SideBar Nation Sidebar have an excellent archive of interviews with some very well know illustrators such as Drew …

Proko – Basic Elements

Stan Prokopenko has just done a new video on shape, value, colour and edge. As always it’s well done, helpful and the sort of thing you wish you’d seen when you first started painting.

Amazon Recommends…

The great and powerful Amazon sees fit to send me recommendations according to what I have bought, searched for or added to my wishlist. Many times these so called recommendations have been less than accurate. But this morning they may have got a winner.