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Interpreting The Tao ‘The Way’
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Sie Ho’s Six Laws These are guiding universal principles of creative guidance. The straight interpretation from the Chinese doesn’t quite get us to a point of understanding without some additional explanation. 1st. Consonance of spirit engenders the movement (of life) 2nd. The law of bones by means of the brush 3rd. Form represented through conformity
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Training In The Renaissance Workshop
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Training of the ‘Garzoni’ or apprentices in the Renaissance Masters workshop was far different then one imagines. The length of the apprenticeship varied and the what they were apprenticing to be also differed. Not everyone apprenticed to be and artist, many were trained to be ‘artisans’. The apprentices were expected to learn to draw and paint in
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Colour Control the Harmonic Palette
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Frank Morley Fletcher’s ‘Palette Control’ is based on musical metrics of major keys and minor keys 5-3-4 and 4-3-5. https://www.barnstonestudios.com/blog/oil-painting-and-palette-control-newsletter-from-1979/
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Myron Barnstone on Visual Literacy
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Myron Barnstone taught an apprenticeship type art school, known as ‘The Barnstone Studios’ in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley for over thirty-five years. The core of his teaching revolved around the comprehension and creation of imagery or visual literacy. Understanding visual literacy starts when you realize that no artist draws what they see, they interpret what they see into visual elements.
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The Holy Grail of Art Education
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‘Visual Literacy’ as a term or concept is not grasped my enough people in the educational arena. Art class unfortunately is viewed as a very narrow field of study and in many cases not even worthy of being part of a curriculum at all. It should, however, be viewed and an essential part of every
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Barnstone YouTube Interview – The Journey
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Myron Barnstone had a major influence on many artistic careers including mine. He taught for thirty-five years at his studio school ‘The Barnstone Studios’ where he helped mentor many notable talents including Juliette Aristides and Dan Thompson. Myron was a true ‘cognoscente’ of classical design using the golden section and root rectangles.
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Barnstone – Golden Section
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Myron Barnstone with a brief explanation of the use of Golden Section ratios in design for the artisan.
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Art Encyclopedia
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This is an outstanding resource to art things art. With thousands of images and links to almost anything one could image. www.visual-arts-cork.com
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Lessons From Diebenkorn
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http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/what-diebenkorn-and-matisse-taught-me-about-the-hard-work-of-making-art/
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Munsell, a Color Matching System for type (A) Painters
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Match Made in Heaven If you want to know what local color you see in nature, and want a scientific method to match that color, then the Munsell Color System may be just what you are looking for. This is a near perfect, color matching, solution for those that seek out a recipe and follow