Nichole Rich Nichole Rich

Small Scale Realism

Ah realism. The art of creating a drawing or painting that looks like you could reach out an pluck an object right off the canvas. It’s a skill that not a lot artists take the time to develop. Some may think that there’s no point since cameras exist and you could simply take a picture. How much more realistic can something get than a photograph? And there are other artists that spend their whole artistic career perfecting realism, taking it to the extreme into hyper-realism.

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Nichole Rich Nichole Rich

Perspective & Cityscapes

The dreaded cityscape… at least I was dreading it. I don’t know, there’s just something about drawing or painting buildings that makes me go, “eh, not for me.” Well, it just so happens, that I’m no so bad at drawing and painting cityscapes. It’s still not something I’m excited about, but it’s something I don’t really mind as much.

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