I'm Kenney Mencher. I'm an artist who left a tenured professorship in 2016 to pursue making art full time. This blog is about art, art history, with a emphasis on human rights. I make homoerotic art featuring bears, otters & other gay wildlife.
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Saturday
My Use and Abuse of Photo Reference
People always ask me if I work from photos. I sure do. I've actually had to develop my skills as a photographer but it also helps to look at the pictures in Photoshop on the computer screen. Here's my painting called "It is What it Is" oil on canvas 36"x48"
Here are some of the reference photos I used.
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Similar blog posts about technique and the use and misuse of art history:
Similar blog posts about technique and the use and misuse of art history:
- Rembrandt, Self Portraits and Me
- Rembrandt, Matisse and Me
- Henri Matisse and Me
- Marcel Duchamp, Rrose Selavy, Mona Lisa, and Me
- Giacomo Balla and Me
- John Singer Sargent, Caravaggio and Me
- Velasquez and Cherise
- N.C. Wyeth, Chuck and Me
- Me and Hopper: A Certain Slant of Light
- My Use and Abuse of Photo Reference
- Themes in Art; Sequential Art
Wednesday
Completed 24"x18" Noir Syle Painting
Here's the completed painting.
Here are the steps that I took to coplete the lower right hand figure.
See a larger finished version of this painting on my website at:
http://www.kenney-mencher.com/
Here are the steps that I took to coplete the lower right hand figure.
See a larger finished version of this painting on my website at:http://www.kenney-mencher.com/
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