R. D. Burton: “Moses” (crosshatch pen and ink) Anguished Spirit/Trail of Tears:Richard D. Burton (Watercolor/ 300# Archers Richard D. Burton~”Shopping for Dinner”: Watercolor on paper Richard D. Burton: “Grinding Gears of Time” Graphite on Paper Trail of Tears: Watercolor/wet-in-wet: Richard D. Burton “Composition in the 5th”: (Acrylic on canvas – 40″X60″) – Artist: Richard D. […]
Richard D.Burton With me, it’s not the technical aspects of how to paint, nor to fix a flawed painting, but when to stop and say it is over…it’s finished. Let’s face it, you can’t keep adding another drop of paint or another brush stroke to a work that is screaming, “stop already.” I think it […]
Richard D. Burton Over the years when I drew or painted the human figure, I referred to books I had on the shelf. I still do this. It was especially necessary when I recently took on the assignment of drawing panels to be used in a narrated slideshow graphic story which is filled with different […]
Agonizing Spirit Over Trail of Tears: Richard D.Burton (pencil sketch for painting) I have always been a fan of Western and Southwestern art. Having been raised in New Mexico, cowboys and Indians were a tradition. If I recall correctly, they didn’t take the hitching rails out of downtown Carlsbad until I was five or six […]
Charles Demuth: I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold (1928) I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, by Charles Demuth, was an exuberant response to a poem by William Carlos Williams, who was trying to establish an American modernism. Williams had dedicated Spring and All to the artist in 1923. The volume presented an authoritative […]
We’re proud to present information at the art center about the Ashcan School, contemptibly know as the Apostles of Ugliness. Having spurned academic painting and Impressionism as an art, Robert Henri wanted ‘paint to be as real as mud, as the clods of horse manure and snow that froze on Broadway in the winter.’ This […]
Richard D. Burton There are several considerations one must factor in when building an art career. The most important is how to juggle the time it takes to create art that can be sold while marketing the work they create. Also, understanding marketing as well as you understand art. By its very nature this forms […]
Pablo Picasso: A Woman in White When you toss a coin, it will not always land on heads. Not all paintings will be a masterpiece~Lynn Burton Many artist change in time, from the time they begin their life of art to the time they pass. They do so by their life experiences, the people with […]
Olivia: Untitled Recently, my grand-daughter, Olivia, sent me a Facebook message mentioning she was ready to get back into her art, now the wedding was over and she was back from her honeymoon. She asked if I had some suggestion of what she might want to concentrate upon as a subject to depict. My answer: […]
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Portrait of Vincent van Gogh What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do~Vincent van Gogh As with all his art, Vincent van Gogh brought to his drawings a mastery of style and an extraordinary technical […]
In the middle of Febuary, seventy-eight years old Texas Artist, Lynn Burton was spotted painting a western chuck wagon scene on the side of Bigham’s BBQ restaurant building in Lubbock, Texas. On This particular day the cold wind was blowing so strong he wasn’t able to put the clear protective coating on the painting. With […]
Lynn Burton: Indian Maiden (Oil on Canvas) Lynn Burton: Chief and Skull (oil on Canvas) Lynn Burton: American Indians (Oil on Canvas) Lynn Burton: Untitled Lynn Burton: Untitled (OIL on canvas) Lynn Burton: Untitled (oil on canvas) Lynn Burton: Parrots (Oil on canvas) Lynn Burton: “Ready to Ride” (oil on canvas) Lynn Burton: “Breakfast at […]
Roy Lichtenstein: Masterpiece-54″X54″ sold in 2017 for $165 million In the spring of 1961, art dealers in New York City began promoting the Soup Can school of art (POP ART) as being different from Abstract Expressionism. The movement sharply returned to recognizable subject matter, veering away from Abstract Art. The subject matter were common everyday, […]
A member of our staff at Art Center Information caught up with artist brothers, Lynn and R.D.Burton, yesterday, and they were kind enough to answer a few questions that some of our readers have asked. Art Center Information: What tips … Continue reading Posted in art center information, foreshortening, Graphite Drawing, Lynn Burton, R. D. […]