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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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Art Center Information’s Weekly Review

In our article on Tuesday, titled: Artists: The Great Communicators, we said: the artist will find out that the more carefully and searchingly they look, the more they find the subject eluding their ability to record it on paper, the … Continue reading →

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Finding The Artist’s Zone

Here I am in my zone. I’ve determined that I will create a graphite drawing and a monochromatic painting of what I will call the Gears of Time. I’m working here on some sketches. I’m trying to capture the age … Continue reading →

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Some of The Agony an Artist Goes Through to a Completed Painting

The hands are all I am trying to get right here. I did not do them quite right, and it makes me Cra-a-a-a-azy! However, I will get it right or else. I have to make “Old Father Time” lean his … Continue reading →

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Watercolor: The Delightful Medium

With watercolor (what I call the delightful medium), you can adapt the techniques that work for you and successfully incorporate your own aims and ideas once you have enough experience and have gained confidence. It will not take long (after … Continue reading →

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Artists: The Great Communicators

In conversation we often say, “I see what you mean,” meaning, “I understand what you mean.” It can be said that seeing and understanding are one and the same thing. They are interchangeable. In the presence of most pieces of … Continue reading →

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Weekly Wrap-up For Week of 9/17 Thru 9/22/2012

To visit the blog-posts, simply click on the picture to the right of each daily entry. Monday, 9/17:There was no new Blog Post. Tuesday, 9/18: Our Blog Post was titled: Tip For Painting With Water Media. We said that … Continue reading →

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Acrylic Painting

The virtues of acrylic paint are purity of color and short drying time. There are a great many artists using acrylics, and there are a great many artists that encourage painters to stay away from them. Because of the unfounded … Continue reading →

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Artist Preparing for a Painting

I’m sure most all artists do strange things in an effort to capture some idea for a drawing or painting. Here is artist, R. D. Burton preparing a pose for a painting of father time. In the right hand will … Continue reading →

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Five Tips for Self-Critiquing

An artist needs to develop a ritual (if you may) that helps them determine the very best they can do when painting a picture. Over time, I have come to use the following procedure when finally deciding one of … Continue reading →

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