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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Lauryn Welch discuss the recent sale of Beeple's NFT (Non-fungible token) at Christie's for $69 million dollars. Watch this episode here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7zoJQsD0itc. This sale was Christies' first for an entirely digital artwork, and the first time Christie's accepted payment in the cryptocurrency Ether. How does this event impact the art world today, and the future?

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Teaching Artists Alex Rowe and Deepti Menon draw and paint caricatures of the 2021 Oscar nominees. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gp7tzY5cA8o. Deepti and Alex explain how to approach exaggerating facial features to capture the unique physical traits of their subjects, while explaining techniques in gouache and Procreate.

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Part 2: Art Prof Clara Lieu demonstrates how to sculpt a small scale sculpture sketch of a figure using plastilene, an oil based clay that is flexible and safe for home art studios. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/AhrnNNTUg0k and watch Part 1: https://youtu.be/gOnu9BHPV18. Prof Lieu explains how to work from reference photos for the sculpture, how to build up the base and structure of the sculpture down to the finer details.

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Teaching Artist Jordan McCracken-Foster and Lauryn Welch demonstrate with markers and Procreate how to create a convincing depiction of patterns in clothing. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MrsmNm-OBkM. Lauryn and Jordan talk about techniques to capture the larger shapes of the form of the clothing while also integrating the patterns.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu explains the bones in the leg, including the femur, the patella, the tibia, fibula, and more. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZoLchdFMLVk. Watch all of our Anatomy for Artist videos in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K1E6eOxiEY&list=PLvt8_pMl6ywmazoENEsPesAumylTEHEoa

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Teaching Artists Jordan McCracken-Foster and Deepti Menon demonstrate how to draw a range of hairstyles in Procreate. Watch this episode here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CdkwadBRffc. Jordan and Deepti how to approach drawing the hair as a three dimensional mass, and then subdividing that mass to articulate the specific clumps of hair. Procreate drawing techniques are also explained and demonstrated.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Alex Rowe and Lauryn Welch explain the basics of how warm colors and cool colors work in art. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GrjMxPyM5C0. Prof Lieu, Alex, and Lauryn explain that warm and cool colors is contextual and is often times not as straightforward as it might seem and provide examples from contemporary art and art history that illustrate the many nuances of color temperature.

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Teaching Artist Cat Huang and Deepti Menon demo how to create a comic that uses no symbols from a keyboard. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5rHlEbbGrSg. Cat explains useful comics techniques such as point of view, the "foot rule," panels, speech bubbles, spreads, and pages in order to communicate a narrative. 

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Part 2 of 3: Art Prof Clara Lieu demonstrates how to mix flesh tones using water mixable oil paints and a palette knife. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/wk6ZevvzXao and watch Part 1: https://youtu.be/gC7h8sa_xFg.  Using exclusively a palette knife is an effective way to focus entirely on the color mixing process by removing the distraction of needing to address brush technique at the same time. Painting a self-portrait from life, Prof Lieu explains how to observe colors in the skin and balance out hue, saturation, value, and warm/cool colors.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu demonstrates how to apply principles of 1 point linear perspective into the context of observational drawing. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-tamvJpVh5M. Prof Lieu talks about how to identify the vanishing point, the vanishing lines, establish the horizon line, and how to develop the drawing to convey a convincing sense of space.

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