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Gallery Swarm Salon | a curated collection of notables : Meet Contemporary Fine Art Painter Ryan Karey : Painter Ryan Karey In His Studio Click Me to view his work Ryan Antonio Karey was born in LaGrange, Illinois. He earned...

Painter Ryan Karey In His Studio Click Me to view his work Ryan Antonio Karey was born in LaGrange, Illinois. He earned his B.A. in Graphic Design from Eastern Illinois University, where he studied under master watercolorist, Walter Sorge. Upon graduating, he went for a 2 week personal study in Florence, Italy. Ryan Karey is a self-defined oil painter, which he finds to be the truest conduit of his artistic soul. Ryan's work is a combination of beauty and raw emotion, texture and smooth strokes of paint on canvas. His color usage is truly unique and innovative. Since dedicating himself to his art, Ryan has had work displayed at various galleries and sites around the Chicagoland area. Including Thomas Moser Gallery, Gallery Swarm, Sacred Art, amongst other instate and out of state art festivals. Since then Ryan has expanded himself professionally to include an ever-growing client base in which he also does commisioned work. Ryan's artistic goals are to e...

Article provided by http://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/how-to/oil-painting/232/how-to-paint-alla-prima  Translated directly from Italian, alla prima means ‘at once’ and it refers to the method of painting in one application and without retouching, otherwise known as ‘direct painting’. If you want to paint alla prima all you need is to make sure you finish the painting you are working on before the paint dries – this could take one or more sittings, though purists will maintain one is plenty. Beyond this definition there is scope for interpretation. For example, some say that retouching is fi ne as long as the paint is wet, others say in painting alla prima every stroke must count and not be later reworked; most agree that it is acceptable to scrape off sections you are unhappy with and re-work them. You can make of it what you will and for many this is a favourite method because it allows for spontaneity and freshness. In its modern form, painting alla prima w...

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Van Gogh has been known as an accomplished artist who sold one painting in his short artistic career and short lived life. If you really think about it, Theo his brother who supplied him with art supplies, money to survive, food, shelter and love for his brother helped him create a large breath of works that live on long after his death. In my opinion Theo is truly a patron of Van Goghs art and Vicient has sold more works then given credit for. Even though the patron is his brother his brother had a great eye for what was good and Vincient was a superstar the eyes of many decades later. Therefore, The artist, the patron and family sometimes cross paths and this is the case with the late great Vincent Van Gogh.

What is delightful delights? For all those whose hearts and minds are most often ruled by your stomachs, a delightful and hearty meal can illuminate even your direst of days in a flick. The obsession you have with food is seen to be even more apparent in the present times with all the cookbooks, television cooking shows and also the culinary websites. And how can you forget those grand figures that pretty much influence the way we cook, eat and think? Yes, the chefs! Chefs are the ones behind the surge of food and undoubtedly they rule the culinary world. You go to any famous restaurant to feed yourself a delicious dish and even before you start to finish off a “just started” conversation with your friend, your plate of flavour welcomes you. That’s how quick they are even while preparing dozen other plates. They not only cook well but are utmost creative with their dishes as they can be seen playing with varieties of flavours, ingredients and colours that not only meets our sto...

History of SELF-TAUGHT & OUTSIDER ART Katherine M. Murrell, "Art Brut: Origins and Interpretations," Singular Visions: Images of Art Brut from the Anthony Petullo Collection exhibition essay (2005) Sixty years ago, Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) wrote in a letter to his friend, the painter René Auberjonois: "I preferred ‘Art Brut’ instead of ‘Art Obscur’ [Obscure Art], because professional art does not seem to me any more visionary or lucid; rather the contrary....Why then do you write that gold in its raw state is more fake than imitation gold? I like it better as a nugget than as a watchcase. Long live fresh-drawn, warm, raw buffalo milk."(1) This is the first recorded use of the term Art Brut, often translated as "raw art." With this, a field of study was born. However, the parameters that defined exactly what this meant had yet to be determined, and there is still much debate about what does and does not constitute Art Brut, or the later t...