If you live long enough and you persist, you are going to get recognition; you must stay in the game.

Literally something flayed, an écorché is a body with the skin taken off to reveal the muscle, bone, and sinew.

the best kind of eraser. Faber-Castell kneaded eraser for charcoal, Pentel hi-polymer eraser for graphite.

Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is considered art history’s foundational text.

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painters use tricks like putting a spot of white in the pupil of the eye to convey liveliness and making a muddy mixture of colors for an undecipherable facial shadow.

contented concentration

The freedom of disregard.

You can be the greatest artist in the world, but if the eyes that matter aren’t on your work, and if the people who count don’t speak up for you, you hardly exist beyond your own local circle.