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Unfortunately, we live in a country of Absurdity and Hypocrisy. We voraciously consume porn videos and accept just about anything sexually provocative in our advertising and entertainment. Yet out of some kind of fear – or loathing – we cannot display a nude human depicted in paint. I do not understand this place. Scotty, beam […]
A Celebration of Life Drawing sponsored by TheGreatNude.tv and hosted by the Arts Alliance in cooperation with Town Realty, NYC. • This Pop-Up Exhibit featured five fabulous Figurative Artists who presented their artworks on several floors of a Landmark Greenwich Village Mansion. Organized by TheGreatNude and curated by Jeffrey Wiener, in collaboration with the Art […]
http://youtu.be/6GBjPJILtEg In this episode of Sketch Sessions, publisher/artist Jeffrey Wiener takes on the challenge of recreating Gustav Courbet’s Bacchante in pencil with a live model in the studio. The challenge of the figure is not the end of this video. Watch the whole video to see the landscape portion get created.
Figure Drawing at The MET (for Mobile Devices) • December 6, 2015 – 2-4pm • Instructor: Jeffrey Wiener • This Class will use the figurative sculptures at the MET to teach basic techniques for sketching the Figure using several popular APPS. Students will learn how to Draw and Paint on their devices, and how to […]
Figurative Complexity • John Belardo has sculptures and drawings on exhibit at the Romano Gallery at the Blair Academy – October 27 to November 28. Check out one of John’s beautiful works here. Romano Gallery Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ 07825 Hours: Monday – Saturday, 10 AM – 6 PM or by appointment, […]
Submerge • New Photography Series and Video by Cheryl Maeder • Submerge explores the relationship we human beings have with the environment, both in the personal and the universal context. We, as living beings, are not separate from the Earth. The human body contains 70% of water fluids and the oceans waters cover more than […]
Figure Drawing with the iPad: Final Video This is the Finished Video exported from the charcoal-style drawing I made with my iPad and the APP Procreate. http://youtu.be/L3408PogQzA?list=PLgqtQJ-T_x7zfFVVtwJWmzRjx-1OQF1rm Figure Drawing with the iPad: Part 1 – Procreate Basics This video is for beginners using the iPad APP Procreate to draw the Figure. In this video, we […]
TheGreatNude presents A Celebration of Life Drawing November 12-15, 2015 An Exhibition of Figurative Artworks with Life Drawing Events Jay Gould Townhouse • 179 Sullivan Street, New York, New York Exhibiting: Sherry Camhy, Janet A. Cook, Leah Poller, John Wellington, Jeffrey Wiener Join us for a weekend of art inspired by Life Drawing as five […]
TheGreatNude presents A Celebration of Life Drawing November 12-15, 2015 An Exhibition of Figurative Artworks with Life Drawing Events Jay Gould Townhouse • 179 Sullivan Street, New York, New York Exhibiting: Sherry Camhy, Janet A. Cook, Leah Poller, John Wellington, Jeffrey Wiener Join us for a weekend of art inspired by Life Drawing as five […]
This drawing workshop is designed to teach any student how to use the iPad (or any other mobile device) to do quick figurative studies from the live model. Students will also be taught several specific drawing techniques that will allow them to create final, polished drawings and paintings for print that are suitable for sale. […]
This video was produced and posted to YouTube in 2010 by Nina Paley (The hardest working animator on planet earth) for QUESTION COPYRIGHT. It is a wonderful, joyous, energetic work that illustrates how all creative work builds on what came before. Photographed and animated by Nina Paley. Music by Todd Michaelsen. Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of […]
I’ve always found this painting by Andrew Wyeth fascinating. Not so much because it is a beautiful painting, and presents us with one of the most mysterious models that is familiar to most Americans. I found this painting most interesting because it presents us with a young woman that obviously has a disability that expresses […]
This interesting video from Redhoot came to me through Vimeo. I contacted the producer behind this video and asked him for an short interview: JW: What inspired you to create the visual approach to this music video? Redhoot: The theme of granularity; which is also relevant in the technology used in the images and music, […]
https://youtu.be/–WlkiMCpTQ This is our first session together and I am working with the iPad to do some quick sketches, chat, and get acquainted with each other. I spent an hour working on these three drawings. I started with a portrait of Sweet Pea’s face, then did two quick 20 minute sketches of her seated on […]
The Silverpoint Exhibition – The Art Students League of New York An Exhibition of Contemporary Silverpoint Drawings April 7- May 31, 2015 The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY May 7 from 5:30 to 7:30 Stephen Assael, Cara Boyle, Ever Blanco, Sherry Camhy, Mary Grace Concannon, George Corbin, Harvey Dinnerstein, Lois Dinnerstein, […]
(1452-1519): An Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, Leonardo was a Florentine Renaissance man, a genius, an artist in all media, an architect, a brilliant military engineer. And perhaps the most brilliantly creative man in European history.
These three paintings are from the “Shared Spaces” series that I began in the mid-nineties. There’s many psychological and intimate portraits in that collection, people I know, couples, pairs. It’s mostly drawings, but the origin of this series were these several figurative works painted exclusively in “Pthalo” Blue and Ultra-Marine acrylics. The larger works are […]
https://youtu.be/_nCbrgquHGQ I was invited to an art exhibition at the Untied Nations by TheGreatNude Registry’s Stefano Losi, a figurative artist, poet, and sculptor. The opening was well attended by fans of his work, and diplomats from a number of nations. I had a chance to meet up with Stefano before the opening to chat about […]
Interview with Bo Bartlett PPOW Gallery Bo Bartlett: Paintings of Home by Scott Goodwillie December, 2010 In his recent exhibition at PPOW Gallery in New York, Bo Bartlett offered some stunning compositions which rely on childhood memories or the place of his dreams. Born in Columbus, Georgia, he depicts a world of stillness and intimacy which […]
Artist Statement: The current direction of my work reverts to the exploration and experimentation experienced as a student in the 60s – those heady days of the Beatles and social and cultural change. Consequently, the materials used are more readily found in a DIY store rather than Winsor and Newton. I had initially begun working […]
This painting entitled “5 Gods Wrestle with Existence” (1992) is part of a series of works focused on Religion and the True Nature of Man. This image is set like a stage, with Jerusalem in the center, and it is about the nature of love and desire for human connectivity in a time of spiritual discovery and religious conflict. […]
Mexico is a very conservative country, and the use of The Nude is a provocative statement in Mexican culture. With that in mind, Mexican photographer Édgar Olguín has published a series of photographs taken as part of a project to protest the killings of 43 Mexican student protestors last fall at the hands of a local government, who […]
A newly released study claims that 2 meter-heigh bronze statues of nude men riding panthers are by Michelangelo Buonerroti. Known ever since as the “Rothschild bronzes,” they will soon be on view at Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum. If this is correct, they will be the only known surviving bronze works by Michelangelo.
This is my second workshop with the Art Students League of NY. The first workshop was last September, 2014. The school is working at developing educational programming for several digital art making tools, and I hope to see “Figure Drawing with the iPad” become a regular offering soon. This year’s class at the Art […]