Summer’s coming so it’s time to get your plein air gear together. John Hughes gives you hints (and photographs to match) on how to organize your gear to make the best of your time in the field. Read the article in the May 2013 edition of 15 Bytes.
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John Hughes Paints a Snow Scene
John Hughes has been writing for our Hints & Tips column for over three years now, providing advice on everything from painting in the snow to choosing an easel to how to get out of an artist rut. We decided it was finally time to see him in action. So in January, while the valley...
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Hints ‘n’ Tips: Positive and Negative Space
John Hughes discusses using positive and negative space to give objects in your paintings full shape.
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Critiquing Your Own Paintings
Critiques are interesting animals; some are big and hairy while others are small and cuddly. Like judging in an art competition, they are all dependent on the artistic paradigm of the person doing the critique. Sometimes the best critiques are the simplest ones, like when my wife Teresa walks into my studio and says, “I...
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Travis Tanner on Making a Good Presentation
In his new Salt Lake City location Travis Tanner, owner of Tanner Frames, talks with Sue Martin on Making a Good Presentation.
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Judging Values at the Beginning
When starting a painting, it is important that the first few values get put down on the canvas correctly before any other brushstrokes are recorded. When choosing a first value, the artist must have a standard to choose from. In other words, just any value won’t do. That is why many artists choose a particular...
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Working with a Retail Gallery
Being an artist means you belong to a profession. Unfortunately, the public does not always perceive artists as professionals, and sometimes artists do not rise to an appropriate level of professionalism in their own practices. Read our Best Practices article in the June 2012 edition of 15 Bytes for some pointers on how to deal...
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Circle-C or Circle-R? The difference between Copyrights and Trademarks
Trademarks and copyrights are two very different types of intellectual property rights. As an artist you may need both, but first you’ll need to understand the difference between them. Read Nicholas Wells’ Hints ‘n’ Tips article on trademarks and copyrights in the March 2012 edition of 15 Bytes.
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A Winter Scene
Snow scenes have a natural appeal, to artists and patrons alike. But as John Hughes explains in this month's Hints 'n' Tips article, when working with snow, some artists see too much white.
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How and why to register copyrights in your work
Consider this: The Constitution of the United States specifically reserves for the Federal Government the ability to protect copyright. The right to bear arms, the rights of freedom of speech and religion, the right to a trial by jury, to due process and the protection from unreasonable search and seizure — all these came as...
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100,000 Years of Red
Humans have been making paint for a long time. A very long time. As described in an article in a recent issue of the journal Science, a cave in South Africa has yielded paint “tool kits” that date back a hundred thousand years (pushing back the date for the earliest known artistic production forty thousand...
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Preparing to Paint in the Field
“Over the years, I have left everything from brushes, palette, white paint and even a canvas back in the studio in my zeal to get out and paint. It’s really bad too — you get all set up, the scene is great and duh, no palette knives! I once had to paint on the back...
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