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Catch & Release

By Jerry Russell on December 11, 2018 / Bottom Right, Illustration, Tips & Tutorials

Catch & Release Originally published in Adirondack Explorer magazine Written & Illustrated by Jerry Russell Releasing the fish you catch is a good way to help maintain fish populations.But catch-and-release fishing requires a different, gentler approach than “catch and cook.” You can greatly increase a released fish’s chance of survival

Calculating Gallery Pricing

By Jerry Russell on December 22, 2016 / Bottom Right, Inside Information, Tips & Tutorials

Calculating Gallery Pricing Hey Artists! (or anyone who sells through a gallery or business that takes a commission) Here’s a formula you can use to price your work so that you end up with what you want for it once the gallery takes its commission. Let’s say you want to

There’s no such thing as computer generated art

By Jerry Russell on December 22, 2016 / Bottom Right, Inside Information, Terminology

[Originally published April 27, 2014] It’s an entirely misleading term, computer-generated art. Digital art, or even just art would be more accurate in most cases. Computer generated art conjures an image of someone sitting back with their arms folded watching while a computer auto-generates a painting. This couldn’t be further from the truth

Chromatic Black Friday

By Jerry Russell on November 27, 2015 / Bottom Right, Terminology, Tips & Tutorials

Tags: Oil Paintings, Tips & Tutorials

Impressionist painters avoided using straight black in the shadow and dark areas of their paintings because straight-from-the-tube black is a rather lifeless color. They chose instead to use chromatic blacks (a.k.a. mixed black), which usually don’t contain any black pigment. They are mixed either on the palette or in advance