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Tip: When the fun is Gone, so is the Creativity

Maybe you strongly wish to paint people or still life or dappled sunlight with all its luster shining through a forest of trees in an astounding landscape, or perhaps you are strongly attracted to colorful abstracts. Maybe, your only … Continue reading →

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It Feels Like Play When Experimenting

Though there may be frustration and heart break, we artists can still call it a win if at least a couple out of every ten of our works turn out to be good. The excitement and thrill of accomplishing that … Continue reading →

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Painting People – A Tour de Force For Any Artist

Realistically painting the figure requires more skill and effort than almost any other subject because of the unique difficulties that it presents. An artist has more latitude to take liberties with their “artistic license” when painting such subjects as a … Continue reading →

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Tips for Selling Your Art in Your Geographical Area

One of Art Center Information’s ARTIST PARTNERS member, Lynn Burton, gave us some sound tips of how to paint and sell your art work in your geographical area. Below are just some of the thoughts he passed on to us. … Continue reading →

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New Pics From Texas Artist, Lynn Burton

Texas artist, Lynn Burton, sent a disk of some of his paintings. Regrettably, our major computer is in the computer hospital being fixed and the disk is inside the computer and we can’t show them. However, he did send … Continue reading →

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Why Can’t We Paint Like Pierre?

The system of dabbing and dashing employed by Pierre -Auguste Renoir to preserve a certain sense of spontaneity of an early autumn moment at Argenteuil (a suburb of Paris on the bank of the Seine), capturing a sun dappling of … Continue reading →

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Tip: How to Give Your Painting a Feeling of Reality

Sometimes an artist will ignore the most important part of their painting, the part that gives the painting a feeling of “reality”. I’m talking about negative spaces…the spaces that surround a solid. Assume that you see a table and are … Continue reading →

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Footprints of Art Movements

The art movement that contributed more to abstract art was Expressionism. Although the term Abstract Expressionism was used during the 1920s, it wasn’t until the 1940s and 1950s that it truly matured into a robust art movement. There were many … Continue reading →

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Experimenting With Color

Have you ever experimented painting with only two colors: black and white – only black and white and I don’t mean a mixture of the two. There is a lesson well worth learning with this experiment. Try painting anything without … Continue reading →

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Tips for Lifting Paint From Your Watercolors

For the simplifying phase of my work, I have several different tools that I use to remove color. If a larger area is involved I generally use (tip) a hard bristled toothbrush, especially to soften hard edges where I’ve used … Continue reading →

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