It is said that the biggest challenge for an artist is to find his way, his own voice. At the beginning of the learning process, technical achievements and execution skills attract all the attention. Then comes the admiration for other...

I confess (and I know I’m not alone in this) that I profess a kind of fetishism for traditional artist materials. For example, I enjoy the feelings I get with drawing papers with their different textures and shades of white;...

Things happen in mysterious ways. Not so many years ago, an artist acquired notoriety through a slow and laborious pathway made of exhibitions, galleries and collectors to end up hopefully in the biennial and public recognition. Nowadays, social media has...

In general, we will be referring to oil colors although most of the reflections that are made are extendable to other media such as acrylic or watercolor. Finding a method In becoming a painter, most of us start with the...

A workshop memory I remember that, during a workshop I attended years ago, Antonio López held an informal colloquium at the end of the day. Urged by the questions, he talked to us about painting and painters; about his predilections...

In mid July 2016, I was lucky enough to be able to organize a workshop with Stuart Shils at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid. We were a small group of 15 artists and I think I am not...

A Nicolás Uribe Workshop in Madrid Nicolás Uribe has been recently teaching one of The Art Digger workshops at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid. I think I am not wrong if I interpret the general feeling of all...

I have to admit to becoming a paint brush geek. I’ve gone from being completely indifferent to treating them with a care that borders on the unhealthy. And the person most responsible for my pious conversion to this good practice...

Alex Kanevsky stops in front of a student’s easel. With a hand placed on his chin, he casts a concentrated eye over the work and ponders on the exact words with which to articulate his ideas. His attitude expresses respect...

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