Videos & Podcasts

Juliette Aristides

Seattle-based artist, Juliette Aristides, provides and lecture and demonstration of drawing and painting at the LCSC Center for Arts & History on January 18, 2013 to compliment her exhibition Allegories with Sacred Cannon.

Juliette Aristides

The introduction to a wonderful book and its companion DVD Lessons in Classical Drawing by Juliette Aristides. An excellent practical resource on the techniques of the old masters.

Jacob Collins

Extra unseen footage from Jacob Collins painting in Hunter, NY.

Ed Copley

ASTA founder and modern day old master artist Ed Copley shares some of his technique, working with a live model.

Philippe Faraut

Sculpting demo by Philippe Faraut.

Philippe Faraut

Philippe Faraut sculpting demo. The effect of methamphetamines on a face sculpted in water-based clay made as a tool for D.A.R.E. This sculpture was originally created for the artist's young daughters to show some of the effects of drug abuse. The lesions and more graphic aspects were deliberately not depicted.

Philippe Faraut

Techniques of Sculpture: Geometry in the Clay Portrait, by Philippe Faraut.

Peter Fiore

Landscape artist, Peter Fiore, paints a study of a winter field from his Landscape a Day series. Edited by Sam Mordenga.

Daniel Gerhartz

A clip from the 6-Hour painting demonstration of Daniel Gerhartz, Her Mother's Locket available for purchase ON DEMAND. As an extra bonus, there are hi-res closeups of the painting so you can view while watching the demonstration. Gerhartz creates one of his stunning masterpiece's from start to finish in his home studio in Wisconsin.

Donato Giancola

Donato Giancola using reference images to create an imaginative realist work of something that does not exist in real life.

Max Ginsburg

Max Ginsburg, Legacy of an American Painter, Streamline Art Video painting demo.

Daniel E. Greene

Daniel E. Greene demo and lecture.

James Gurney

James Gurney's How I Paint Dinosaurs DVD promotional video.

James Gurney

The James Gurney YouTube channel, where you can find lots more videos by and featuring James Gurney.

Thomas Kegler

Thomas Kegler painting demo. Excerpts from Painting en Plein Air DVD parts one through ten.

Erik Koeppel

Techniques of the Hudson River School Masters with Erik Koeppel, Streamline Art Video.

Judith Pond Kudlow

The Realist Sight-Size Method with Judith Kudlow for an introduction to realism and the sight-size method working from a still-life set up. Harlem Studio: NYK Academy.

Jeffrey Larson

The trailer for a demonstration and interview video of Jeffrey T. Larson, fine artist from Wisconsin.

Rob Liberace

Rob Liberace demos an alla prima portrait on the first day of his workshop, The Painterly Sketch: Advanced Alla-Prima Portrait. In part 1, Rob starts with a basic underpainting in browns and blacks.

Rob Liberace

Rob Liberace describes the anatomy of the arm while drawing the "flayed" view which shows the muscles and tendons as they would appear under the skin. He uses a three color chalk technique to create "ecorche" drawings of both the front and back of the arm and hand.

Rob Liberace

Free yourself from stiff renderings of the human form and find the confidence to create your own representation of the model. Join renowned artist Rob Liberace for a fast-paced yet comprehensive lesson in figure drawing as you learn how to keep your pieces lively and powerful with essential instruction in this exciting new guide. DVD excerpt from American Artist.

Rob Liberace

This video shows clips from Rob Liberace's drawing DVD, Anatomy: The Torso.

Rob Liberace

Painting the Figure in Grisaille: DVD excerpts. This clip shows clips from the dvd by artist Rob Liberace. A grisaille is a monochromatic (limited color) painting.

Richard MacDonald

Jordi Caballero dances for master sculptor Richard MacDonald in Monterey, California as he models in his studio.

Richard MacDonald

Time-lapse footage of a week of work in the studio of Sculptor Richard MacDonald.

Richard MacDonald

Richard MacDonald captures the strength, beauty, and grace of the performers from Cirque du Soleil in this video.

Richard MacDonald

Richard MacDonald sculpting Transcendence.

Pietro Annigoni

There is a five-minute BBC film from 1961. In it, we see Annigoni preparing his tempera and then painting with it.

Lance Richlin

Time lapsed demo of Lance Richlin at work.

Preserving the knowledge of the survival of realism in the twentieth century, Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students and Artist-Teachers conducts interviews and audio podcasts with artists who trained during the twentieth century, as they are the closest link we have to understanding more about nineteenth century studio practices. Visit the website to hear interviews with Katherine Lack, wife of the late twentieth century artist, Richard F. Lack, Kirk Richards, Allan R. Banks, Rob Gutteridge and more. This resource is a growing body of work being conducted by Emilio Longo, visual arts teacher and author.

Suggested Donation is a series of podcasts devoted to the arts in all forms. Hosted by two Contemporary Realist painters, Tony Curanaj and Edward Minoff, the conversations provide an insight into the creative mind. By speaking with both traditional and non-traditional artists and craftsmen, curators and restorers, they create a dialog through which we discover common ground across disciplines and spaces united by a love of and deep devotion to skill. To visit their website and listen to already published podcasts, which include interviews with ARC Living Masters™ Anthony Waichulis, Jacob Collins, and Patricia Watwood, click here.

The Sculptor's Funeral is the only podcast dedicated to student and professional figurative sculptors living and working today. Hosted by American sculptor Jason Arkles and produced in Florence, Italy, The Sculptor's Funeral discusses significant sculpture and sculptors throughout the Western European figurative tradition, analyses historical and current events relating to the production of sculpture and the culture in which it is made, plus the occasional interview with living sculptors and discussions about technical processes, techniques, and issues of a three dimensional, representational nature. The podcast is a weekly series, each episode airing on Sunday Mornings (European time). The ten latest episodes are available for download on iTunes, Stitcher, and many other podcatchers, and anyone can listen to the complete archive for free (as always) at www.thesculptorsfuneral.com.

For two millennia, great artists set the standard for beauty. Now those standards are gone. Modern art is a competition between the ugly and the twisted; the most shocking wins. What happened? How did the beautiful come to be reviled and bad taste come to be celebrated? Renowned artist Robert Florczak explains the history and the mystery behind this change and how it can be stopped and even reversed.

Juliette Aristides is an artist and the founder of the Classical Atelier Program at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, Washington. She has taught there for the past six years and also gives workshops across the country. Her own work can be seen at John Pence Gallery in San Francisco. Juliette recently published a book on the training methods for drawing at traditional ateliers called Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice.

In addition to the material in this interview, Sherry Ross also wrote a review of the book on the ARC site.

The teachers that Juliette mentioned included Myron Barnstone, Richard Lack, and Nelson Shanks. Juliette also mentioned a book titled The Force of Visual Perception by Rudolph Arnheim. I was unable to locate that book though I did find two others by the same author: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye and Visual Thinking.

The artist Juliette mentioned as being especially influential in developing her interest in art was Jusepe de Ribera.

Christopher Wood is England's foremost writer and broadcaster on Victorian art. He has written 21 books including The Dictionary of Victorian Painters, The Pre-Raphaelites, Burne-Jones: The Life and Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), The Great Art Boom, 1970-1997, Tissot, Olympian Dreamers: Victorian Classical Painters 1860-1914, and Victorian Painting. He was the director of nineteenth-century paintings at Christie's in London, and has operated the Christopher Wood Gallery in London for many years.

Christopher recently completed a new book on 19^th century painter William Powell Frith entitled William Powell Frith: A Painter and His World which will be released later on this month by Sutton Publishing.

Christopher's upcoming sale will be on February 28, 2007 at Christie's in London

The book Christopher mentioned regarding the prices for paintings sold at auction was The Economics of Taste by Gerald Reitlinger

This episode is interview with Peter Trippi, Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, primarily focusing on 19th century artist J.W. Waterhouse. Before joining the magazine, Peter was the Director of the Dahesh Museum in New York City. Before arriving at the Dahesh Museum, Mr. Trippi held positions at the Brooklyn Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Association of Art Museum Directors (where he wrote a history of that organization from 1916 to 1991), Cooper-Hewitt Museum, National Arts Education Research Center at New York University, and American Arts Alliance in Washington DC.

He holds a MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London; a MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University; and a BA in History and Art History from the College of William and Mary, Virginia. In 2002, Mr. Trippi co-founded, with Professor Petra ten-Doesschate Chu (Seton Hall University) and Professor Gabriel P. Weisberg (University of Minnesota), the innovative, peer-reviewed journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, and he has served on the boards of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, Historians of British Art, and American Friends of the Attingham Summer School.

Peter was also the author of the book J. W. Waterhouse (review) from Phaidon Press.

He contributed two chapters to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1997, organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and published by Abrams).

Waterhouse Exhibition Planned

Peter to speak at North American Victorian Studies Association/North American Society for the Study of Romanticism conference where his talk will be titled Dead in the Water?: J.W. Waterhouse's Hylas and the Nymphs

To contact Peter you can email him at peter@fineartconnoisseur.com

Further reading

• Peter's article on Hylas and the Nymphs
• Waterhouse gallery on ARC
• Waterhouse fan site

Oil Painters of America Keynote Lecture on The Errors of Modernism, by Fred Ross.

We have hardly begun to even consider all of the possible areas of thought, emotion, knowledge, and experience which have yet to be conceived, drawn and painted, in which the expressive, poetic and creative powers of the artists eye can once again enrich society, culture and civilization with the outpouring of countless masterpieces from the hands of our living masters.

Our first podcast was an interview with Vern Swanson, Phd, Director of the Springville Museum on the subject of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). Dr. Swanson is the author of several books including The Biography and Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Alma-Tadema: The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World, John William Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism, and Soviet Impressionism, Hidden Treasures: Russian and Soviet Impressionism 1930-1970s, Utah Painting & Sculpture, and Artists of Utah.

The Finding of Moses, a large, wonderful, incomprehensibly beautiful painting by Tadema, that says everything you could ever want to say...stone, flesh, water, light, flowers, everything. The painting in the early 1960's was put up for sale and nobody would buy it. Finally someone bought it $200 and someone came in and asked 'What is that painting doing in your alley?' So they went out and found that the people who had bought the painting had removed it from the frame and left the painting in the alley. So they sold it again to a restaurant for nothing. That painting came up for auction at Christie's in New York 5 or 6 years ago and sold for well over a million dollars and if it came up today it would sell for 4 or 5 million.

Vern also mentioned Alma-Tadema's friendship with the excellent Victorian artist James Jacques Joseph Tissot starting in their early days as students.