International Artist – June-July 2019

39 were kept primarily neutral save for key elements, creating natural spots of interest. Conveniently, this effect is consisten ...

40 http://www.InternationalArtist.com THE ART OF THE PORTRAIT Master Showcase Mary Ross Buchholz Place of Honor - Goat Skull, ch ...

The Portrait Society of America 41 Evert Ploeg Connectivity - A Portrait of Prof. Michael Crommelin AO, oil on linen, 114 x 137 ...

42 http://www.InternationalArtist.com THE ART OF THE PORTRAIT I spent a long time learning how to draw portraits, starting with ...

The Portrait Society of America 43 adhesion for the subsequent layers to come. Now that my painting is dry, it’s pretty easy for ...

(^44) http://www.InternationalArtist.com TRUTH in DETAIL Chinese-American painter Z.S. Liang turns to historical detail to bring ...

45 Z.S. Liang in his studio with the completed painting, The White Buffalo War Shield. ...

(^4646) http://www.InternationalArtist.com West show, began with a brief phone conversation in November 2018 when he explained h ...

Truth in Detail 47 a study that he would use as a reference for the actual painting. He then sketched using a blue pencil so it ...

(^4848) http://www.InternationalArtist.com that he didn’t mean “photorealistic.” Rather, he meant “real” as a representational w ...

Truth in Detail 49 COMPLETED PAINTING White Buffalo War Shield, oil, 62 x 47" (157 x 119 cm) Liang shares, “This was the complet ...

(^50) http://www.InternationalArtist.com Focus A recent retrospective allowed T. Allen Lawson to stand back and see his work fro ...

51 L ast year T. Allen Lawson began a work that was made up of 11,520 individual squares of paint, each one an individually mixe ...

(^5252) http://www.InternationalArtist.com Red Oak, 2011, oil on panel, 30 x 12" (76 x 30 cm) Bernadette, 2014, oil on linen mou ...

Brought Into Focus 53 South Brooks Two-Track, 2018, oil on panel, 9½ x 10" (24 x 25 cm) It’s all these places—Chicago, the East ...

(^5454) http://www.InternationalArtist.com in the West, not exclusively a Western artist. People find him all around the world b ...

Brought Into Focus 55 operation, he injects himself into the scenes as often as he can. “My biggest job right now is to stack ha ...

(^56) http://www.InternationalArtist.com OIL A fter hearing several artists’ stories of how they became artists, I realized that ...

Oil Demonstration 57 that have fallen my way. I have been fortunate to have been placed in a few galleries, I have been invited ...

(^58) http://www.InternationalArtist.com these different textures has led me to experimenting with a variety of techniques and t ...