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Bob Ross Landscape Painting Practice 10.09.25

Exploring free-flowing, intuitive painting with the infamous Bob Ross. I wanted to learn how to paint trees, and this tutorial made it incredibly easy for me to understand how to layer with tones and shades, adding depth to the painting.

Medium used: Acrylic paint

Monotone Oil Painting Practices 21.06.25

Exploring the medium of oils for painting realistic expressions using Craig Stephens' book The Beginner's Guide To Oil Painting. For the first two objects, the sphere and cube, I copied the author's placement of tones and shadows to get a feel of the visual logic. Then, for the second attempt, I applied the author's techniques to represent the still life photographs in the book through my own stylistic interpretations. By the third object, I was able to intuitively apply both the painting techniques and my own stylistic interpretation to the artwork.

The Beginner's Guide To Oil Painting by Craig Stephens

Yellow Landscape by Isamu Noguchi 1943

Yellow Landscape, as seen in Figure 1, is a sculpture created by Isamu Noguchi in 1943. It was fabricated shortly after Noguchi decided to voluntarily enter Poston, Arizona's Japanese-American internment camp in 1942, where he would stay for seven months to enhance the living conditions for those incarcerated there through design and artistic interventions (Hatfield, 2017). Noguchi sculpted this surrealist depiction of a Japanese Zen garden featured in Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein comprising delicately balanced carved wood, and fishing weights on a string to express his interest in translating scientific ideas of space, time, and quantum mechanics into tangible forms. Those seemingly random compositions of objects were Noguchi’s attempt to explore fragility, weightlessness and tension - concepts drawn from Einstein’s theories of relativity and unseen forces.