While looking for information about American actress Helen Morgan, I’ve accidentally found a video about another gifted woman who has the same name. This Helen doesn’t work in films or on the stage. She is a textile weaver.
If you reckon that a true person of art is a poor suffering loner who remains unrecognized up to his death, you are mistaken. A talented artist can be successful. Benjamin Walls’ biography is good evidence of that fact. He…
I’m embarrassed to say: in spite of my almost philological education, I am not good at English-language literature. At our faculty, we had been studying the literature of our country for the most part.
The target audience of modern fairy tale movies are not only children. Mothers and fathers go to the cinema with their babies and then, while cooking dinner, are humming something like ‘Prince Ali! Mighty is he! Ali Ababwa-aaa! Strong as…
Watercolor is very capricious but highly addictive. I think that everyone who uses this medium has exclaimed at least once, ‘These paints are going to make me crazy! I’m done!’ – and reached for them again in a few days…
My cousin doesn’t like classical literature, but he is a big fan of fantasy. I’ve recently chosen a present for him on Amazon. The task was difficult: he has already read almost all good novels in this genre. After an…
You might already know that charcoal is made either of natural branches heated in a kiln or from charred wood dust mixed with binders (I’ve got a post on the subject here). Today I want to tell you about the…
Charcoal gives a more intensive black color than graphite and enables a draughtsman to experiment with a rich variety of tonal gradation. This organic material is perfectly suited for classic drawing, particularly for portraying a nude human body.
If I had to choose only one type of erasers I would prefer a kneaded eraser. But would that be ones from Maped?
I like to use dry drawing materials in the form of pencils. Maybe you’ve already read my recent post about Koh-I-Noor sanguine, sepia, charcoal, and white chalk cored in wood. Today I want to tell you what I think of Gioconda…