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Guides for Seeing Art in Berlin
In the mood to go see some art but not sure where to go? Tired of paying museum admission fees but intimidated by the long list of galleries? Already saw…
Painting Collage: Amelie von Wulffen
Would you like to start your own painting journey? Check out the Painting Workshops on offer with Berlin Drawing Room, both online and in-person. Collage can be a great starting point…
Pastel Hues of Maurice Prendergast
Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924) was a masterful painter and colorist. His watercolor paintings have a beautiful shimmering luminosity, achieved through his transparent use of color and loose brushstrokes. His use of color…
Neo Rauch and his discordant color world
Would you like to start your own painting journey? Check out the Painting Workshops on offerwith Berlin Drawing Room, both online and in-person. We discussed Neo Rauch’s work in our Watercolor…
Negative Space: from Juan Sánchez Cotán to Rachel Whiteread
The negative space in a picture is not only a powerful formal element, but can carry symbolic value as well. It is the ever present and often overlooked “background,” the space between…
Tonality and Seurat
I love to share these these drawings by Georges Seurat with my class when we learn about Tonality. Seurat is the artist most associated with Pointillism, that off shoot of…