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Tips for Manipulating Acrylics

Manipulating acrylics on a surface can be interesting and rewarding, resulting in delightful effects by using such tools as various brushes, palette knife, old credit card, razor blade, and even an icepick, as well as, almost anything you can imagine … Continue reading →

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Painting Light While in Open Shade

Painting in open shade can sometimes be and often is a most frustrating experience of color contradictions. Predominantly, the color temperature, as it relates, is cool lights and warm darks, however this can easily reverse itself back and forth because … Continue reading →

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Art Center Information Weekly Wrap-up~8/27–9/1/2012

On Monday: We found an old interview with Andrew Wyeth and reprinted here. It was fascinating when he talked about his painting, Christina’s World. His description of working months on the brown grass imagining a pink crumpled lobster in the … Continue reading →

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Advantages of an Overcast Light

Most people like sunny, cloudless days, but when it comes to painting, artists prefer the soft illumination of an overcast light diffused through a cloud covered sky. It is nature at her most benign. Under this gentle quality of overcast … Continue reading →

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Tips for Painting in Direct Sunlight

Depending on the subject you select to paint, direct sunlight usually produces high contrast effects. These effects are usually controlled by the time of day (angle of the sunlight), and how the observer is positioned relating to the direction of … Continue reading →

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Tip for Painting Alla Prima

The start of a good alla prima painting (done in one session) is a good, well planned, block-in. The study of art defines a block-in as: a sketch or outline done roughly and generally without detail. When painting landscapes, you … Continue reading →

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3 Tips for the Perfect Composition

When it comes to artistic composition, you can study art from an instructor, read a great many books on the subject, or search the internet for all the suggested “rules” that apply. But for me, I only accept the … Continue reading →

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When an Artist Knows Who and What They Are

An artist often wonders what inspired him/her to draw and paint the way they do, their styles, art movements and isms, or that one particular artist living or dead. I personally go back in my past and wonder. I have … Continue reading →

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Quoting Andrew~Christina’s World

The following quotation is from Richard Merryman’s article, “Andrew Wyeth: An Interview,” published in Life, May 14, 1965. “When I painted it in 1948, Christina’s World hung all summer in my house in Maine and nobody particularly reacted to it. … Continue reading →

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Art Center Information Wrap-Up week 8-20 thru 8-25

We’ve had a great time this week! It’s been fun and entertaining. I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed some of the comments and encouragement from some of you. All I can say is a great big THANKS! … Continue reading →

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