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Stolen Art, Copyright, and the Power of Social Media

2/6/2017 11:14:22 PM | By Aaron Westerberg | 14 Comments

This story started when a friend sent me a photo of a book with my painting on the cover in an Italian Bookstore. [...]

The Importance of a Preliminary Color Sketch

8/29/2016 4:45:58 AM | By Aaron Westerberg | 16 Comments

A color sketch is a preliminary study for a finished painting. Creating one can be one of the best ways to approach... [...]

How to Build a Drawing Horse

7/27/2016 12:51:12 AM | By aaron westerberg | 8 Comments

How to build a Drawing Horse [...]

Oil Painting Blacks

6/13/2016 7:30:34 AM | By Aaron Westerberg | 7 Comments

A brief breakdown of some of the different Black pigments offered for oil painters [...]

How to Successfully Pour Gamsol (Odorless Mineral Spirits)

5/24/2016 4:08:11 AM | By Aaron Westerberg | 2 Comments

Most Oil Painters I know use Gamsol, Gamblin's odorless mineral spirits, to clean and thin their oil paint.... [...]

Sargent, The Best at Saying More with Less

5/16/2016 12:27:23 AM | By Aaron Westerberg | 1 Comment

Sargent knows.... [...]

A Guide to Portrait Lighting

5/12/2016 3:31:56 AM | By Aaron Westerberg | 1 Comment

This is a really nice guide to the different types of Portrait Lighting and the equipment involved. Click on the image for a very large reproduction of the image. Cheers! [...]

Colour Study Article "Artists and Illustrators" Magazine

5/10/2016 2:33:15 AM | By Aaron Westerberg | 1 Comment

Really excited to see my article on my "Color Studies" in the June Issue of Artists and Illustrators! [...]

Huge Taschen Velazquez Book

5/6/2016 5:13:29 AM | By Aaron Westerberg | Comment on this

Huge Velazquez Book by Taschen [...]

Zorn Palette and Color Chart

5/2/2016 5:01:28 AM | 12 Comments

This is a color chart I made using the “Zorn Palette” [...]

These are my Favorite books on Drawing. For me Books are and continue to be a huge part of my education, I can’t get enough. I cherished and learned from these Authors when I started out and recommend them to my students now. With each of these books I have included Associate links to Amazon, more detailed information about these books soon...enjoy! Life Drawing by George Bridgman is all about anatomy construction wedging and how the figure works like a machine, the drawings are mostly all linear. . The Human Figure by Vanderpoel is more about refinement of anatomy the drawings are mostly tonal, I really like [...]