Alex Alvis Art

I promised more detail of Las Meninas - here it is.     and a closer look at the girl to the left of Margarita (and thanking the Mu...

Back to Velazquez from yesterday.  Here is a close-up of Spanish King Philip IV's daughter, The Infanta Margarita from Velazquez's p...

Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) is considered the painter's painter because he (among many other things) was a master of technique and had a...

I have been drawing clouds a lot.  They are so much fun to draw.  A couple of days ago spent some amount of time working out some clouds in ...

Learning to draw is always about this and a sculpture or a painting is nothing more than a drawing turned into a 3d object (as is the case w...

Well, it's coming along.  The sky first and I spend them most time there today (probably pretty obvious) and then put in the farthest ba...

Today I painted outside.  I cannot say it was done en plein air since I didn't finish it and will be finishing it in the studio - but I...