Janis Zroback
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Tales from an Artist's Journal Part Five...Finding Your O...
“To know what exists in order to develop what is uniquely your own”
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Tales from an Artist's Journal Part Four..Learning and Pr...
I was doing approximately 100 paintings each winter, of every kind of subject matter, from Still life to Landscape, summer to winter..
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Ten Things You Must Never Say To An Artist
Are you still into painting? I thought you gave that up and got a real job…
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Tales from an Artist's Journal Part Three...Fill your Pai...
In “The Art of Colour” Johannes Itten wrote, that “however painting may evolve, colour will remain it’s prime material”...
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Chromophobia
A fear of “corruption or contamination through colour, that has lurked within western culture since ancient times”
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Tales from an Artist's Journal Part Two
I stocked the studio like an art supply store, with every type of paint, paper brush, pencil, marker etc, as well as equipment for more than fifty types of art and crafts…
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A Corner of My Life....
“There was a river behind El Carmen Street.
It ran below the houses on the opposite side….way below….you had to go down a steep incline to get to the water.
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Tales from an Artist's Journal
Several years ago I got very ambitious and did a very large pictorial journal of ideas,..so for those who have asked me “how did you do that?” I will try to provide some answers…
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Chinese Brush Painting How-To #8 Mountains and Rocks
This medley of long and short, fat and thin, dry brush, fast and slow strokes, are necessary to the success of your painting…
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Chinese Brush Painting How-To "The Portent"
When the great wind in the sixth moon o’erwhelmed
The skies at Chengdu lifting houses whole,
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Chinese Brush Painting- How To Part 7- The Tao and Colour...
The Tao is always there….it is the changes of the seasons, day into night, birth, death, growth and decay, and underlies everything we see or experience in life…
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Chinese Brush Painting- How-To Part 6- Qi and The Brush
the Chinese character for “busy” means “losing one’s mind”....in that case am I a lost cause?....
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Chinese Brush Painting- How-To Part 5 Starting to Paint
Start to turn the stick in a clockwise direction….pretty soon the ink will start
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Chinese Brush Painting- How-To Part 4-Paper
I had great fun, making mine from discarded watercolour paintings, and I incorporated dried flowers
