The process involves exposing the photographic material to light during the development phase, which causes the highlights to become darker and the shadows to become lighter. This creates a line of inversion along the edge of areas of contrast, creating a glowing outline or halo effect. The result is a stylized image that appears to be partially negative and partially positive.

The name "solarization" comes from the technique's original use of sunlight exposure during the reversal stage of development. The technique has been used by various artists and photographers over the years, including Man Ray, Lee Miller, and Jerry Uelsmann.

Today, solarization can be achieved both in the darkroom and digitally through image manipulation software. In the darkroom, solarization can be achieved by exposing the photographic paper to light during the development phase, while in digital image manipulation, the effect can be created through software filters that can invert the tones of the photograph.

Solarization on Wikipedia
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From below, asperitas clouds appear like upside-down ocean waves, undulating and cresting and best seen at sunset when they're lit from below.

"Well-defined, wave-like structures in the underside of the cloud; more chaotic and with less horizontal organization than the variety undulates. Asperitas is characterized by localized waves in the cloud base, either smooth or dappled with smaller features, sometimes descending into sharp points, as if viewing a roughened sea surface from below. Varying levels of illumination and thickness of the cloud can lead to dramatic visual effects. Occurs mostly with Stratocumulus and Altocumulus."

Recently, Luiz Celestino produced a video explaining a way to teach yourself about color using Color and Light: a Guide for the Realist Painter as a textbook:

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Thanks, Luiz! And thanks to YouTuber Vonnart for recommending my book Color and Light in his roundup of favorite art books.

"She goes into colors," says the caption of this pen-and-ink drawing by Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944).

When he was asked whether he ever had the desire, as have had so many illustrators, to go in for what is known as 'straight painting,' Dean Cornwell replied:

"It is love of romance that makes Americans the greatest readers of fiction, and producers of the greatest number of films. That is one reason why I would rather be an illustrator than do so-called straight painting. I appeal to this spirit in thousands of people, whereas if I painted a picture and showed in an exhibition, and if it were lucky enough to be bought, only a few people would see it."

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"Dean Cornwell: Factor in a New Art" article by Helen Appleton Read in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1924, from Fulton History.

The idea for the 'Art by Committee' sketchbook happened when I was working on a lot of paperback covers. I had a habit of snipping out odd lines from science fiction manuscripts that struck me as fun prompts for sketching games, such as:

"One man, whose eyes were more almond-shaped than those of the others..."

Edward Troye (1808-1874) was a Swiss-American painter who specialized in animal subjects, particularly horses. He was born in Geneva, Switzerland and studied art in Munich, Germany, before immigrating to the United States in 1831.

Arthur Guptill, an author of several books on drawing, advised that a student should not try too hard to arrive at an arbitrary style of his or her own too early.

"If he is content, instead, to do his work as well as he knows how, searching for truth in drawing and an honest interpretation of nature's values, studying all the while other drawings in order to benefit by the experience gained by other men, and seeking always for the best way to meet the requirements of the problem at hand, he will unconsciously develop a method or style expressive of his own individual self."

Arthur Guptill, page 78 in Sketching and Rendering in Pencil, 1922

The term peaks around 1930.

It has wonderfully expressive glass eyes.

The Henson sculptors created it as a proof of concept for how they would develop the character in animatronic form, and the original has appeared in several museum exhibitions.

The Denver Art Museum is presenting an exhibition called "Near East to Far West" which pairs French Orientalist painting with the art of the American West.

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