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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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Some More Tips to Help Promote Your Artwork

Here, at my blog sight, visitors can see works in progress, finished works, and other artist’s works and read statements about it. My blog is as much visual as it is textual, with me being a commentator. It is a … Continue reading →

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Can You Utilize the Internet to Promote Your Artwork?

Can you utilize the internet to help get your artwork noticed? An artist has to have a plan, but there is no doubt that the internet can help get you noticed as an artist and give you a number of … 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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Carefully Plan Negative Spaces In Your Artwork

Before you frame your latest piece of artwork, study it as if you were an art critic. Once it has passed inspection, take another look at the negative spaces. Is there something in the space that you can detect? Negative … Continue reading →

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Three Important Tips to Get Your Artwork Shown

Tip 1:When attempting to show your art, there is no place like home. By home I mean the city you live in. Look around and use your “art” eyes to discover the art community around you. Make it a challenge … Continue reading →

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Respecting the Graphite Drawings of James Frederick

I feel it would be a dereliction of my duties not to re-post some of James Frederick’s artwork. He was best known for some of his graphite drawings. James passed this week. He was a loved member of our extended … 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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