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• Chinese Oil Painting Reproductions - My spam folder is kept full each day with at least 400 emails.. day after day.. and among the promises of lengthened manhood and pre-approved loans are emails with titles like "Cheap China Wholesale Paintings" and "Oil Paintings from China."
• Lucian Freud the Great - I think it's safe to say that Lucian Freud is the greatest living painter of the figure. Even his bad paintings are better than the best work of most other artists.
• Personal Coach for Artists - In Robert Genn's latest newsletter he is talking about personal coaches and the value that artists could gain from them. He isn't about to become a personal coach himself, but he has made a list of things that an artist could do to make progress.
• Art Renewal Center and the Wonders of Clasical Realism - Marion Boddy-Evans of the painting blog on about.com has posted a few links to some friendly debate about the truth of classical realism and the evils of contemporary art. She made a post last year about the Art Renewal Center that created some colorful discussion on her comments page.
• Christopher Lees Painting Video - Leith has let me know of this painting video below on YouTube. It's of the Australian painter Christopher Lees working on a large painting called "Harmony Reign". It's set to classical music and really works. It was also quite frustrating for me as I don't have a studio to paint in!
• Enamel Paint Safety - Most artists don't usually take health and safety issues seriously until they get sick from being in the studio, so here's a post from Hazel Dooney about enamel paint and turpentine.
• Art & Perception + Painting from Photographs - I reposted an old post asking the question; Is it OK to use photographs for painting? It's something most painters, critics, and collectors seem to have an opinion on, so I thought it would be interesting to see what others think about it.
• Photoshop Artists - Robert Genn published an interesting newsletter recently about artists creating art digitally, particularly with programs like Photoshop and Painter. A lot of other artists seemed to find in interesting also, as Robert got more than 700 replies from subscribers.
• The Painting Process and the Still Life - Karl Zipser has added a new section to his art blog called Follow the Painting, where he and the artist Hanneke van Oosterhout go through the different stages of creating a painting.
• Money Paintings - Euro Series - The Australian artist Anthony White has started work on the Euro series of paintings. After the success of his USD, AUD, and Pound series of money, he expects similar interest in the Euros series.
• Painting with Acrylics - The Canadian artist Robert Genn is discussing the use of acrylic paints in his latest newsletter, and how some people look down on them. He mentions that it is artists that use oils that do most of the criticizing.
• 1000 Paintings - I recently asked Anthony White some questions about his money paintings, and have come across an artist in Zürich, Switzerland doing something similar. Maria pointed out the one thousand paintings site, where Sala is creating 1000 numbered works for sale online.
• Painting from Photographs Update - The recent post about painting from photographs created some friendly debate. Some believe it is fine to use photographs as they're just another useful tool for the artist, while others believe it's almost cheating, or certainly taking a shortcut.
• Painting from Photographs - The ARTnews magazine has asked a question that has been around for a while now.. "Why should a painting based on a photograph be considered a less legitimate work of art than one painted from observation or one that is simply abstract?"
• Rupert Murdoch Portrait Painting - The British portrait artist Jonathan Yeo has finished a portrait of one of the most powerful men in the media industry. The Australian born, American adopted media mogul of the News Corporation company (yes, he owns the Simpsons cartoon too!), Rupert Murdoch sat for Yeo in his London studio.
• Seeing God - It's an interesting theme to tackle for artists.. depicting God. Probably too difficult a task to accomplish with paint.
• Protecting Ancient Paintings - The problem with having such a rich and plentiful source of archeological treasures is that it's so much more difficult to look after every site. I remember in Turkey some of the early Christian paintings in Kapadokya had initials scratched all over them.
• 4 year old art prodigy? - A four-year-old girl is wowing the New York art world with paintings that are drawing comparisons with Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky. Marla Olmstead, from Binghamton, in New York state, has been painting since just before she was two years old.
• You call that art? A chimp could have painted it - It is said that, given enough time, a chimpanzee at a typewriter could produce the works of Shakespeare. So how many years would it take for one with a brush and palette to turn out a Picasso?
  
• Contemporary Artists Online - Here's a selection of some super-fantastic contemporary artists online. I browse the Internet quite a bit, and am always bookmarking sites in my favorites, so I thought I might share a few.
  
• Artist Offended - An interesting post over at The Art Life blog, where an artist gets nasty over a little criticism. Sure I have been offended, possibly even hurt by criticism before but it was unconstructive and hurtful criticism, certainly nothing as mild as this.