Here at Art Center Information, we intend to pass on tips to help artists that are interested, and of course promote my families artwork. We also want to invite other artists to share their work through interviews on our blog.

Once every so often we like to refer you back to a few blog posts that we feel are important. On the blog posted on Tuesday, May 5, we gave you three helpful tips to create illusion and depth in your artwork. We also posted James Frederick’s painting, “The Squirrel Hunter”.

We recommended this tip: To create the illusion of depth, intentionally alter what you are seeing to have the viewer focus on the point of interest.

The blog posted is well worth reading in its complete form. Again, you can check this out by clicking on the top or bottom of this page and continue until you get to the blog, or go to:

http://www.artcenterinformation.com/2012/05/tips-to-create-illusion-and-depth-in-your-artwork/

Another blog post we would like to refer you to is the tips for foreshortening. It continues to present an illusion of depth. This was posted on Sunday, May 27th. I discussed how I thought my father, artist, Arlen Burton, insulted a painting I’d done as a teenager. After studying it for a while, he said, “You need to study foreshortening.” I was devastated at the time but thankful later. It’s a read worth looking into with four helpful tips for understanding foreshortening.

I used my watercolor, “Woman in The Field”, to demonstrate that her hat should be tipped more, showing higher. This would make the upper left arm more visible and should show more foreshortening.

If you click on the picture at the right, it will take you to an earlier post clarifying foreshortening.

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