“Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure” Michelangelo
Fine art is rooted in drawing. It is one of the major forms within the visual arts. Other art styles like painting emanate from it. Drawing encompasses a number of mediums including; charcoal & graphite, pen and ink, chalk, pastels, inked brushes, and much more.
Categories of drawing include figure drawing, cartooning, shading, and methods like; line drawing, stippling, shading, etc.
“Drawings is the artist’s most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.” Edgar Degas
Crypto Art Crushing NFT
written by Maurice Cardinal … Crypto Art took off like a SpaceX Rocket and overshot the MOON In part one of this series, we did a low-level flyover to show you how NFT crypto art…
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NFT EFT ART WT? ?
written by Maurice Cardinal … Creating art and investing in the crypto NFT art market would be less nerve-wracking if everyone knew what they were doing. Unfortunately, most are flailing…
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manipul ART ions
The pandemic exposed an art market rife with deception. The uncertainty the pandemic created is having a variety of unique impacts on different art sectors. While the traditional art world…
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Apps 4 Artists
If an artist doesn’t choose the best creative tool out of the gate, you open yourself up to a world of hurt. Once a piece of software becomes the standard look in the market, you need to fly…
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Activist Art … Done Right
More artists than you might realize do it right as activist artists; from actors, to painters, musicians, digital animators, dancers, writers and so on and on. Artists speak their minds and…
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Ethics Artists Obligations
Do artists have a responsibility to society?Of course not, but they do have influence. Artists like to think they have responsibility to no one or anything except their creative vision, but…
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Do the Right Thing
Artists use ethical energy to benefit society by making transparent what is often hidden from public view.
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2020 was brutal
Ironically though, it was an unprecedented year for International Artist Day. More artists reached out to us this year than in any other year of our entire sixteen year history. Since we…
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Indi Art Construct
Indigenous Art – the original Indie Culture goes hand in hand with art, so when emotional issues erupt in society, we often look to art for answers that science, politics, or religion…
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Art+Pandemic=Paradigm
written by : Maurice Cardinal International Artist Day has been celebrated for the last sixteen years on Pablo Picasso’s birthday, October 25th as an homage to artists and all they…
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