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Art Center Information Weekly Review for 7/2~7/72012

For your convenience, click on the thumbnail picture beside the entry and it will take you to the post in its entirety. On Monday, we discussed the Exciting and Challenging World of Watercolor, saying~If you are an artist that has … Continue reading →

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Weekly Review~June 25-30

This past week we had a great many visitors to our sight. For most of the blogs posted, we discussed ways you can promote your art via the internet. If you haven’t already visited the individual pages and missed these … Continue reading →

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Using Dry Brush Technique in Watercolor

If you wish to create texture and broken color in watercolor, particularly for foliage and grass in a landscape or hair and fur textures in a portrait or animal painting, you need to use a dry brush technique. This technique … Continue reading →

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Helpful Tips to Help Promote Your Art

Many artists find it difficult to market themselves. However, if you are to reach people outside of your comfort zone of friends, family, and colleagues, you must promote yourself to a wider network. The kind of effort required for promoting … Continue reading →

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The Past Week in Review

On Sunday, we review the posts of the past week. If you want to review the posts in their entirety, simply click on the picture posted in the paragraph referring to the post. On Monday,we said: As an artist, … Continue reading →

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More Clarification on Step # 1: Getting Your Artwork Shown

Remember, your art is not ready to show publicly until you have amassed a serious body of work that shows a consistency of ideas. Of course, you must have mastered the medium used as well as all the tools necessary … Continue reading →

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Step # 1: Are You Ready to Show Your Artwork?

As an artist, I know how frustrating it is to even think about getting your artwork shown. All you need to do is browse through the internet to see the tremendous amount of activity in the art world. It’s hard … Continue reading →

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The Artist’s Week in Review

BLOG POST MONDAY~ We gave you Tips to Captivate The Viewer’s Attention to Your Artwork, and we wrote: Directing your viewers to your center of interest–your focal point–requires an understanding to exactly what makes your viewers eyes move around the … Continue reading →

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Learn to do Your Art by Studying Other Artist’s Works (an Example)

As a young person the Regionalist artist, Thomas Hart Benton, had seen the murals in the nations capital and understood the importance of the visual for inspiration and information. When his father was a congressman, the family lived in Washington … Continue reading →

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Tips to Captivate the Viewer’s Attention to Your Artwork

Directing your viewers to your center of interest–your focal point–requires an understanding to exactly what makes your viewers eyes move around the painting or drawing and always wind up at the (shall I say) bullseye. This can be done in … Continue reading →

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