Traditional Oil Painting by Virgil Elliott
Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present is available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Borders, and other booksellers, also from Utrecht art supply stores and Daniel Smith Inc. Below is a link to it on Amazon.com:
About the Atelier
An Atelier, in the original usage of the word, is simply the studio of an artist, wherein his (or her) works are created, and in which a small number of promising students receive instruction directly from the Master of the atelier.
Quotations
"Art springs from a wild and anarchic side of human nature; between the artist and the bureaucrat there must always be a profound mutual antagonism, an age-long battle in which the artist, always outwardly worsted, wins in the end through the gratitude of mankind for the joy that he puts into their lives. If the wild side of human nature is to be permanently subjected to the orderly rules of the benevolent, uncomprehending bureaucrat, the joy of life will perish out of the earth, and the very impulse to live will gradually wither and die."
Bertrand Russell
Upcoming Appearances
April 26, 2013, 12:30 p.m. book signing at the Portrait Society of America's annual conference, Grand Hyatt Atlanta (Buckhead), Atlanta, Georgia.