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The First Mission of Art: To Entertain

Sometimes it is the abstract color work. Sometimes it is the realization that it is not abstract but realistic. Sometimes it is expressionistic or impressionistic. Sometimes it is nothing more than colorful patterns that create pleasure to the viewer. Much … Continue reading →

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Tip: When the fun is Gone, so is the Creativity

Maybe you strongly wish to paint people or still life or dappled sunlight with all its luster shining through a forest of trees in an astounding landscape, or perhaps you are strongly attracted to colorful abstracts. Maybe, your only … Continue reading →

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Painting People – A Tour de Force For Any Artist

Realistically painting the figure requires more skill and effort than almost any other subject because of the unique difficulties that it presents. An artist has more latitude to take liberties with their “artistic license” when painting such subjects as a … Continue reading →

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Tips for Selling Your Art in Your Geographical Area

One of Art Center Information’s ARTIST PARTNERS member, Lynn Burton, gave us some sound tips of how to paint and sell your art work in your geographical area. Below are just some of the thoughts he passed on to us. … Continue reading →

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Tip: How to Give Your Painting a Feeling of Reality

Sometimes an artist will ignore the most important part of their painting, the part that gives the painting a feeling of “reality”. I’m talking about negative spaces…the spaces that surround a solid. Assume that you see a table and are … Continue reading →

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Tip: Find Your Next Painting Within Your Last Painting

While I was painting the picture, Winter Farm, some years ago, I kept having a nagging feeling that there was a lot more than meets the eye to this old Ohio farmhouse. There was a certain rustic presence about the … Continue reading →

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Tip to Capture the Moment

There are those unaware that Pablo Picasso usually started his paintings with carefully executed and realistic drawings. Later he would paint over the drawings as his study of the subject progressed and deepened. This was not unusual for artists of … Continue reading →

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A Revolution in Western Art

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque bounced ideas off each other and enjoyed each others company. However, they knew they were working in new and adventurous territory when together they started the cubist movement. Art critic Louis Vauxcelles described it when … Continue reading →

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“Think Out” Shadows in Advance of Painting

If you paint several parallel but separated one-half inch lines of different colors on a white sheet of paper and place a vertical object nearby and then shine a bright light at an angle so the object casts a shadow … Continue reading →

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Tip For Painting Landscapes

The secondary color scheme using green, orange, and violet are especially good at creating harmony, especially, when painting landscapes. Proper use of this scheme can give a viewer that inviting feeling of being able to walk right into the picture.. … Continue reading →

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