Issue Date: JANUARY 1997; VOLUME 61, ISSUE 654
IN THIS ISSUE:-
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COVER: Curt Walters, by Jason Gaillard, 1996, oil, 18 x 14. Collection the artist.

FEATURES:
METHODS & MATERIALS: THOMAS EAKINS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: A TECHNICAL STUDY OF THE ROWING PAINTINGS, by Christina Masschelein-Currie.

MAKING THE MOST OF SUNLIGHT by Terry Sullivan. "The light here is very important to everyone," says Alaskan artist Carol Crump Bryner, "so I try to find ways to store it up.".

MARY CLOSE'S SIGNIFICANT STILL LIFES by Karen Frankel. This New York City artist uses such ordinary items as playing cards or a glass of milk as symbols of universal truths or beliefs.

INTERPRETATIONS OF THE COLORADO LANDSCAPE by M Stephen Doherty. Here's a report on the fifteen artists invited by American Artist and Forbes, Inc., to paint the mountains, streams, wildlife, and vegetation on the expansive Forbes Trinchera Ranch in southern Colorado.

THE WATERCOLOR PAGE: MAKING SHADOWS IMPORTANT by Brigitte Schreyer. There are many ways to make the dark areas of your watercolors as important as the light ones. Here are some of the techniques I have found effective.

USING LINEAR RHYTHMS FOR COMPOSITION by Harold Bruder. Working with the arabesque as a compositional device, I emphasize structure rather than the subject matter itself.

THE PASTEL PAGE: CONSTRUCTING A "PATHWAY" INTO A PAINTING by Anne Heywood. I draw viewers into my paintings by including "pathways" such as streams or trails in my compositions.

NUTS & BOLTS: Resources and practical information for artists, plus a look at a painter who risked her life for her art by spending ten days in Kuwait documenting the oil fires set at the end of the Gulf War.

DEPARTMENTS: EDITOR'S NOTE. LETTERS. EXHIBITS. TECHNICAL PAGE by Steven Sheehan. ART MART. BULLETIN BOARD. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS. COMING IN FEBRUARY. RECOMMENDED BOOKS.
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