Below are links to a variety of helpful, informative, and/or interesting web sites.
Art Material Resources:
The following are vendors of quality art related materials.
Natural Pigments
NY Central Art Supply
Italian Art Store
Signature Canvas
New Traditions Art Panels
Canvas Panels
Old Masters Maroger
Stafford Frames
PH Miller Frames
Frames by Edward Wright
Front Range Frames
Hackman Frames
Recommended Blogs:
The following blog sites contain ongoing discussions related to traditional painting.
Rational Painting
Gurney Journey
Recommended Informative Sites:
Here are some sites that have informative content that I have found useful.
www.artrenewal.org
Angel-Painting Method
sightsize.com
anthonyvelasquez.blogspot.com
www.paulseaton.com
www.ameralart.com
www.abcgallery.com
www.davidkassan.com
Organizations:
The following are professional art related affiliations.
Art Renewal
Hudson River Felllowship
Oil Painters of America
Roycrofters at Large
Roycroft Campus Corporation
Galleries:
Albright Knox Art Gallery
Burchfield-Penney Art Center
Kenan Center
Meibohm Fine Arts
Oxford Gallery
Artists of the Past:
The importance of studying past masters, from Rembrandt and Velasquez to Inness and Church, cannot be overstated. The following are lesser known artists worth exploring.
Carlsen, Emil
Bonnat, Leon
Duran, Carolus
Henri, Robert
Leighton, Fredrick
Levitan, Isaac
Repin, Ilya
Ruskin, John
Serov, Valentin
Shishkin, Ivan
Sorolla, Joaquin
Zorn, Anders
Contemporary Artists:
The following are a few living artists worth studying for inspiration.
Aldridge, Brad
Ameral, Andrew
Armes, Steve
Aspevig, Clyde
Balkanski, Nikolo
Barry, Colleen
Baugh, Casey
Broman, Carol
Brown, Ryan
Collins, Jacob
Curanaj, Tony
Daly, Christine
Daly, Thomas Aquinas
Delessio, Marc
Demers, Donald
Depew, Nancy
Duffy, William
Di Fronzo, Francis Gregory
Fiore, Peter
Fletcher, Nancy
Fryer, Douglas
Giarrano, Vincent
Gluck, David
Gorecki, Wojciech
Gorecki, Wojciech
Graves, Daniel
Groves, Chris
Gurney, James
Guzik, Nancy
Hanson, Curt
Heerdt, Karl
Helmantel, Henk
Hiltner, Nicholas
Iten, Dorian
Jaunsen, Curtis
Jurney, Donald
Kassan, David
Kingsley, Darren
Klein, Michael
Koeppel, Erik
Kreutz, Gregg
Kunkle, Brad
Lack, Richard
Lamb, Sarah
Lawson, T. Allen
Layne, Noah
Legg, Jeff
Lehman, Kate
Lipking, Jeremy
Mann, Jeremy
Marriage-Song, Hyeseung
McGurl, Joseph
Minoff, Edward
Russo, Carlo
Sakievich, Peter
Schlaht, Travis
Schmid, Richard
Seaton, Paul
Sheehan, Dennis
Seymour, Travis
Sprick, Daniel
Stone, Kate
Tsang, Julie
Valeri, Sadie
Velasquez, Anthony
Waddell, Scott
Watkins, Robert
Wolf, Shane
Zdrale, Zack
Educational Opportunities:
The following are sources for educational opportunities through workshops and ateliers.
Art Renewal
Hudson River Felllowship
Grand Central Academy
Academy of Realist Art
Angel Art School
Florence Academy of Art
Free Online Books:
The following are free online books worth reading.
The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour - Alfred East
Light and Water
- Montagu Montagu-Pollock
The art of landscape painting in oil colours - W. Williams
Recommended Books:
The following are informative and inspirational books.
· Classical Drawing Atelier - Juliette Aristides
· Classical Painting Atelier - Juliette Aristides
· Pieter Claesz - Master of Haarlem Still Life - National Gallery of Art Washington
· Art in the Making - Rembrandt - The National Gallery
· Velasquez - -The Technique of Genious - Jonathan Brown & Carmen Garrido
· Oil Painting Secrets of a Master - Linda Cateura
· An Artist Teaches - Reflections on the Art of painting - David Leffel
· Oil Painting Techniques and Materials - Harold Speed
· The Materials of the Artist - Max Doerner
· The Art of Thomas Aquinas Daly - Thomas Aquinas Daly
· Painting Natures Quiet Places - Thomas Aquinas Daly
· Carlson's guide to Landscape Painting
· Problem Solving for Oil Painters - Gregg Kreutz
· Kindred Spirits, Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape - Linda S. Ferber (Brooklyn Museum)
· Hudson River School Visions, The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford - Kevin J. Avery and Franklin Kelly (Metropolitan Museum)
· Frederic Church - John K. Howat
· Close Observation, Selected Oil Sketches by Frederic E. Church - Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.
· The Painted Sketch - American Impressions from Nature 1830-1880 - Eleanor Jones Harvey (Dallas Museum of Art)
· Alla Prima - Richard Schmid
· Composition of Outdoor Painting (2005) by Edgar Payne
