Links for Portfolio Preparation Students

The following links can be subscribed to in your Google Reader.  All are highly recommended.

http://juliedouglasdrawingpaintinglearning.blogspot.ie/
Julie Douglas conducts portfolio preparation classes and you can take a look at some of her projects and the work of her students.

http://www.powersofobservation.com/
Catherine Kehoe teaches observational painting and drawing...Her blog is intended to inspire her students. 

http://paintingperceptions.com/
In depth interviews with artists conducted by Larry Groff, himself a perceptual painter.

http://www.proko.com/
Stan Prokopenko explains anatomy and construction drawing in easy-to-understand, entertaining videos.  Check out his video on Light and Shadow!

http://stapletonkearns.blogspot.ie/
Stapleton Kearns is a working landscape painter with tons of good advice including critiques of student paintings.  Occasionally grumpy, always honest, insightful, and funny.
Check out his hilarious "Encyclopedia of Dumb Design Ideas":  http://stapletonkearns.blogspot.ie/search/label/Encyclopedia%20of%20dumb%20design%20ideas

http://duanekeiser.blogspot.ie/
Duane Keiser's daily postcard size paintings.  Great lessons in transforming ordinary objects into extraordinary paintings.

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.ie/
Insights into art of all kinds, especially painting and illustration by James Gurney, the author and painter of the "Dinotopia" series.  James has written two excellent art books, both available on Amazon:  Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter; and Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist

http://muddycolors.blogspot.ie/
14 of the illustration industry's best share their latest work, tutorials, trials, tribulations, successes, and more.