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Wax and Water
Weathermap, 2011, watercolor on paper, 38" x 34", by Fred Hatt A few months ago, I made a change in my regular life drawing practice. My primary drawing medium for over fifteen years had been Caran...
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Oddities of the Anatomium
"Vegetables Are All Your Body Needs", advertisement for the International Vegetarian Union Most figurative artists spend some time studying human anatomy – basic musculoskeletal structure, often just...
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Back in Gray
Leaning Ahead, 2012, by Fred Hatt For any artist, I think, regularity of work is essential. For an artist like me who does other work to make a living, it can be very difficult to keep the creative...
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Playing with Color
“Butterflies & Flowers”, performance by Cilla Vee, 2004, photo by Fred Hatt, grid of various color manipulations The technological capture and reproduction of images dethroned the artist as magical...
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What Will Last?
Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet, c. 3000 BCE A friend used to like to say I have a mind like a steel sieve. My semantic memory (for general knowledge, concepts and facts) is pretty good, but my episodic...
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