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The Artist’s Week in Review

BLOG POST MONDAY~ We gave you Tips to Captivate The Viewer’s Attention to Your Artwork, and we wrote: Directing your viewers to your center of interest–your focal point–requires an understanding to exactly what makes your viewers eyes move around the … Continue reading →

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Art is my Job~Progressing Art Through Awareness

Ever since I retired two years ago I’ve made art my job, but it has always been a constant pleasure. It’s just no longer a hobby. I spend a lot of time visiting galleries, surfing the web, visiting artists web … Continue reading →

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Painting and Drawing Effects of Perspective

When considering effects of perspective on the human body, the horizon line usually represents the furthest visible distance and is at the viewers eye level. An artist decides arbitrarily where to place the line and it is usually decided according … Continue reading →

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Tips for Sketching With Pencil and Watercolor

Hurry>>>Be sure to sign up for the Art Center Information newsletter and enter the drawing to win a free coffee table art book.>>> Sketches, whether with pencil (graphite or colored) or watercolor, are plans of attack for a painting. Many … Continue reading →

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Painting and Drawing With a Rich and Vibrant Medium

If you enjoy working with colors, there is a chance that you will love working with pastels. They are easy to use, and you don’t have to worry about drying times, odors, or toxicity, as you might with other mediums. … Continue reading →

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Learn to do Your Art by Studying Other Artist’s Works (an Example)

As a young person the Regionalist artist, Thomas Hart Benton, had seen the murals in the nations capital and understood the importance of the visual for inspiration and information. When his father was a congressman, the family lived in Washington … Continue reading →

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Tips to Captivate the Viewer’s Attention to Your Artwork

Directing your viewers to your center of interest–your focal point–requires an understanding to exactly what makes your viewers eyes move around the painting or drawing and always wind up at the (shall I say) bullseye. This can be done in … Continue reading →

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Drawing With Pen and Ink

I’ve always been fascinated by the fresh, crisp, look of a well executed pen and ink drawing. Artist who have the ability to do this type of art have my greatest admiration. The masterful use of crosshatching strokes, dots, vertical … Continue reading →

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5-Painting Techniques That Acrylics Can Mimic

Be sure to sign up for the Art Center Information newsletter and enter the drawing to win a free coffee table art book.>>> You may have already discovered, acrylics are different from any other type of paint. This becomes more … Continue reading →

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Weekly Art Review

Here at Art Center Information, we intend to pass on tips to help artists that are interested, and of course promote my families artwork. We also want to invite other artists to share their work through interviews on our blog. … Continue reading →

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