The Slade School of Art – Part One

William Coldstream, Window in Hampstead 1981
 
Painting Perceptions is again fortunate to have a guest article from Neil Plotkin who has been living in London for the summer. This first post is an brief overview where he looks at a few significant painters coming out of the The Slade School of Art in the UK [...]

Redesign to launch today

Today I plan to make live the new redesign for this site so I letting anyone visiting know that things may look a bit screwy until we get everything up and running – hopefully everything will go smoothly and we will have the new site showing as intended by the end of the day.
I think [...]

Esref Armagan, painter born without eyes, is it perceptual?

I saw this 12/10/09 New York Times article, The Blind Artist and the Volvo today about the new Volvo video campaign for their 2011 S60 model using a Turkish painter who was born without eyes showing him making a painting of their new model. The article and their related youtube video shown below intrigued me [...]

Important considerations for artist’s images on the web

I ran across this 2007 article about how not to display your artwork on the web recently and wanted to share it to anyone who hasn’t yet seen it or perhaps knows someone who might benefit from the valuable information offered in the Lines and Color’s article written by Charley Parker on How Not to [...]

thoughts on the art-politics of framing?

For anyone wondering why so quiet here lately it is because my painting and other life stuff has stolen me away from my computer over the past week. However, I do have some great plans in the work – an article about Sangram Majumdar that hopefully will include him answering a few questions about his [...]

Some quick notes

I wanted to let anyone who might be interested what is up with this blog. I’ve just finished lengthy interviews with George Nick and Eric Aho. George Nick talked about his experience studying with Edwin Dickinson, his friendship with Fairfield Porter as well as talking at length about his work. Eric Aho talks about his [...]

Viewfinder Innovations

Today I thought I would turn to something more mundane and practical – but very useful for painting outdoors and for perceptual painters. A reexamination of new viewfinder possibilities.
For such a simple but useful tool, people have come up with all kinds of new and interesting approaches and ideas for this. A google search [...]