J is for…
Handbook Journal, Ink
J is for journal. J is for jaune brilliant and jacaranta brown. J is for juried competitions, and the judge that awards the prizes.
J is for Jullian Easel and Jo Sonja Paint. J is for jube, a gothic choir screen, and for jali, an openwork screen carved from stone. J is […]
category: Alphabet Art author: Lisa B. comments: 3 Comments
May 14th, 2008
I is for…
Ink, Watercolor
I is for imagination. I is for illustration, inspiration, and the illuminated letters that decorate this sketchbook. I is for ink, intaglio, and intarsia, an inlay method of making images.
I is for indigo, indianthrone, and iron blue. I is for Indian yellow, ivory black, and iris green. I is for their intensity […]
category: Sketchbook, Alphabet Art author: Lisa B. comments: No Comments
May 9th, 2008
H is for…
Ink, Pastel Pencil
H is for hue. H is for Hansa yellow, Harrison red, and Haarlem blue. H is for Hooker’s, Holly, and Hungarian greens. H is for heliotrope, an impermanent red-violet, and for hartshorn, which was made from calcinated deer antlers.
H is for highlight, hieroglyphics, and history painting. H is for horizon […]
category: Sketchbook, Alphabet Art author: Lisa B. comments: 4 Comments
May 4th, 2008
G is for…
Handbook Journal, Ink
G is for green. G is for green earth, gamboge, and giallorino, a light yellow similar to aureolin. G is for green lake, geranium lake, and gofun shirayuki, a traditional Japanese white made from oyster shells.
G is for gilding, gold leaf, and grisaille, an underpainting in gray scale. G is for […]
category: Sketchbook, Alphabet Art author: Lisa B. comments: 2 Comments
April 29th, 2008
F is for…
Ink, Graphite
F is for frame. F is for fixative, frisket, and and foamcore. F is for figures, foreground, and finger painting. F is for ferrules that hold bristles on filberts and fan brushes.
F is for Fine Art, Folk Art, and the Fourteenth Street School. F is for Faberge’s fanciful eggs, and for the […]
category: Sketchbook, Alphabet Art author: Lisa B. comments: 6 Comments
April 24th, 2008
E is for…
Handbook Journal, Ink
E is for easel. E is for engraving, enamel, and etching, a printmaking method employing acid and wax resist. E is for egg tempera, and for encaustic, a method of painting with heated beeswax.
E is for eraser, and for the earth colors of ochre and umber that come from the ground. […]
category: Sketchbook, Alphabet Art author: Lisa B. comments: 2 Comments
April 20th, 2008
D is for…
Handbook Journal, Ink
D is for Decorative Arts. D is for drawing, draftsmanship, and design, the ingredients of a pleasing composition. D is for decoupage, dry-brush, and Damar, a final varnish for oil paintings. D is for diptych, a two-panel painting, and diorama, a three-dimensional display depicting a moment in time.
D is for dye, […]
category: Sketchbook, Alphabet Art author: Lisa B. comments: 6 Comments
April 15th, 2008
C is for…
Ink, Pastel Pencils
C is for creativity. C is for caesin, canvas, and copal, an oil painting medium made with resin. C is for collage, cartoon, caricature, and calligraphy, the art of beautiful handwriting.
C is for chalk, charcoal, Conte, and Crayola. C is for color wheel, where we find celadon, cerulean, cyan, cobalt, and […]
category: Sketchbook, Alphabet Art author: Lisa B. comments: No Comments
April 10th, 2008
B is for…
Ink, Colored Pencil
B is for brush. B is for blue, brown, black, and bistre, a fugitive color made from beechwood around the 18th century. B is for brayer, a printmaker’s tool consisting of a handle attached to a hard rubber roller. Used for block printing, not all brayers are democrats.
B is for Bazille, […]
category: Sketchbook, Alphabet Art author: Lisa B. comments: 4 Comments
April 5th, 2008
A Is For…
Handbook Journal, Pencil, Ink
A is for art. A is for artist, aquarelle, aquatint, and acrylics. A is for azure, azo, aureolin, and alizarin. A is for the Ashcan School, a small group of realist painters who documented New York city life in the early 20th century.
Handbook Journal
Ink, Watercolor
A is for atelier, abstract, and […]
category: Sketchbook, Alphabet Art author: Lisa B. comments: 3 Comments
April 3rd, 2008