Watching the Moon Landing LIVE
This Saturday, July 20th, marks the 50th anniversary of mankind’s first steps on the Moon. As a...
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
This Saturday, July 20th, marks the 50th anniversary of mankind’s first steps on the Moon. As a...
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, June 19th, 2019
back row: Donato Giancola, Iain McCaig, Scott Fischer, Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo; front row:...
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
These ‘short take’ posts will address common factors within an art career. You’ll recognize these...
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, April 24th, 2019
Next up in Michael Swanwick’s Mongolian Wizard series is “The New Prometheus.” In keeping with the...
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
The Coen Brothers’ latest, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, is possibly one of their most lovingly...
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
This is the next short story installment in Michael Swanwick’s grand series of The Mongolian...
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, January 30th, 2019
This Friday, February 1st at 7pm, the Norman Rockwell Museum presents the first Radio Play of...
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
One year’s example of core faculty and attending guests, from left: Irene Gallo, Iain...
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
The Above the Timberline exhibition is now open at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge,...
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
This November, thirty of the originals from my novel, Above the Timberline, will be featured...
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
Frank Tenney Johnson was a fan of doing nocturnes, or night paintings. The conditions to capture a subject absorbed in moonlight depend on your ability to recognize subtle value and color. Specifically value. Study the light in this Johnson painting. Besides the dense, solid black shadows under the horse and foliage, notice how subtle the mountain sits in the background while the cowboy’s shirt floats in the foreground plane of the piece, even though they’re…
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018
These are paintings that touch me, push my inner-painter. The visual sense I’ve developed over the...
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, August 15th, 2018
Inspired by my students, and in response to so many questions, let’s take a look at brushwork...
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, July 18th, 2018
In discussion after discussion about what talent is or isn’t, most people get frustrated by the lack of evidence to explain it, that no one has found the signature DNA combination that points directly to a biological giftedness for specific skills. Most people throw up their hands and argue that a person just can’t be a great artist unless they have some sort of abnormal ambition, a driving force, at least that certain something.…
Read MorePosted by Gregory Manchess | Wednesday, June 20th, 2018
We just wrapped up teaching at the eleventh Illustration Master Class. As always, the IMC provided so much energy and inspiration that I’ve returned to my studio with many ideas, many stories, and lots of technical information. This year’s guests included James Gurney, Kent Williams, Tara McPherson, Greg Ruth, Senior Art Director Jeremy Jarvis, Creative Director Lauren Panepinto, Art Dealer Lance Rehs, and Marc Scheff of Every Day Original. IMC is the kind of teaching…
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