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Artist, Richard D. Burton, Working on “Grinding Gears of Time”

Here is a partial drawing, Grinding Gears of Time, by artist, Richard D. Burton. The drawing is 18″X24″. The main figure (Father Time) is just a sketch taped onto the substrate which has many of the floating gears in the … Continue reading →

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Three Tips~A Brief Course on Art Marketing

There are thousands of arts and crafts shows in the United States each year. Usually, if you visit these you will find local artists exhibiting and selling their works. However, many artist are not educated in marketing their work, and … Continue reading →

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An Artist is an Artist if They Believe They Are

Many art schools today rarely hire teacher’s without at least a masters’ degree in fine arts. However, many of our great and renowned artists did not have degrees in art. Henri Matisse and Wassily Kandinsky, for example, had their formal … Continue reading →

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Masking and Washes in Watercolor Painting

In his painting, Woman in the Field, artist Richard D. Burton used masking as well as layering in his wet-on-dry watercolor style painting. He explains his technique here for the viewers of Art Center Information. To prepare the painting and … Continue reading →

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Artist Works on Next Stage of His Drawing

One of the most important steps in completing a good drawing is how well you get each portion of your future picture placed on the substrate. Here artist Richard D. Burton is tracing the figure of “father time” in the … Continue reading →

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Weekly Wrap Up for 10/01/2012 Thru 10/06/2012

Please take the time to enter your subscription to our newsletter at the upper right of the page. There will be a random drawing for a beautiful art coffee table book for those that have subscribed. Our posts this week … Continue reading →

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Draw With an Objective

Drawing, as an objective, for many of the old masters was to take from their models the maximum of information for future use. They were not trying to create a work of art. For them, they were simply recording facts … Continue reading →

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Draw With Graphite Pencil as if Painting With a Brush

I’ve found that occasionally selecting to draw solidly and roundly, modeling my forms as though I was working in clay, painting with the graphite pencil, tone for tone, edge against edge and texture for texture, that I have my most … Continue reading →

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Inspiration for the Wannabe Artist

There are some of us that drew or painted when we were young but got caught up in business and responsibilities, children and such. We left our passion by putting it off until retirement; but the good news … 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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