Artistic Lines from Joan Justis February 2018 joan@joanjustis.com #joanjustisstudios You Can Create a US Postage Stamp Do you wonder about the pictures on US postage stamps? Who painted them? Why…
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Artistic Lines from Joan Justis January 2018 website joanjustis.com joan@joanjustis.com M. C. Escher and Negative Space The Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) is well known for his drawings and…
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Artistic Lines from Joan Justis October 2017 joanjustis.com #joanjustisstudios Because seven color printers can print on fabric, you can now use your own ideas and colors to cover that chair…
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Artistic Lines from Joan Justis July 2017 Homestead, Wyomin’ Folk Art is a composite drawing of my life experiences in the Laramie Basin. Having sold several of this print in Wyoming,…
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Artistic Lines from Joan Justis May 2017 joanjustis.com #joanjustisstudios Green is a color with numerous hues that can be detected by the human eye. As I drove early this morning…
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Artistic Lines from Joan Justis June 2016 joanjustis.com What is a masterpiece? How does a work of art or music or literature become a masterpiece? I watched a delicious performance…
Read morePierre Bonnard: Painter of the Fluid Memory
Artistic Lines from Joan Justis May 2016 joanjustis.com The effervescent paintings of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) were not painted to show true form but to allow him to present his subjective…
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Artistic Lines from Joan Justis April 2016 joanjustis.com Paintings have a way in and a way out. When you look at a painting, you are entering it’s space. The artist…
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Artistic Lines from Joan Justis May 2014 joanjustis.com A friend of mine has a small print of the Dutch artist Johann Vermeer entitled The Milkmaid painted in the years 1658-1660.…
Read moreBalance in A Painting ~ Art Tutorial Nine
Balance in a painting provides a sense of equilibrium. If an artist wants to disturb us, he can take away the balance by adding excessive weight in an area without…
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