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Dear Friends, I wanted to let you know that I have not disappeared, but I will be off-line for some time to come. My soul mate and lif...

Early on in my teaching career, I encountered a chart by Ocvirk, Bone, Stinson and Wigg in a text entitled Art Fundamentals, Theory and Prac...

If you've been keeping up with this blog, you know that for the past eight weeks, I've been addressing individually our visual vocab...

It's confusing to look at nature and determine whether the visual temperature is warm or cool. Yet master artist Richard Schmid is ada...

In the classroom, intensity was always the one element or concept that boggled the minds of my students. Folks got the value thing--it seem...

Below: Color Wheel based on Munsell's Five Primaries It was Sir Isaac Newton who in 1666 invented what came to be known as the triadic ...

Fire truck red. Sky blue. Lemon yellow. The primary hues. Most folks call them them colors, but color covers value, intensity, and temp...

Without value we see absolutely nothing. At night, if we lose electric power and there is no moonlight, you can see nothing but black. And ...

Except for the minimalists, take any painting you like, subtract from it all texture and what do you have left? One painting I like a lot i...

In no art form is the visual element direction more evident than in figure skating on ice. A figure skating choreograph resembles a J ack...