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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 →

Using a “Key” Color in Your Paintings

When I first began considering watercolor as a medium, I remember being attracted to the freshness and transparency in the many paintings that I saw. I also realized after attempting the medium there was so much to learn in not … Continue reading →

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Tip: Find Your Next Painting Within Your Last Painting

While I was painting the picture, Winter Farm, some years ago, I kept having a nagging feeling that there was a lot more than meets the eye to this old Ohio farmhouse. There was a certain rustic presence about the … Continue reading →

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Sometimes It’s Great To Know Somebody Who Knew Somebody

“Art: an enduring record of man’s emotional response to his existence.” -Peter Hurd Sometimes we realize that at some point in time we have met or known artists that were or are famous and very successful. Several well known artists … Continue reading →

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An Ongoing Art Lesson

I came across the picture on the left the other day, and I remember well the conversation I was having with my brother, Texas artist, Lynn Burton. It was all about color, the different hues of nature. I recall vividly … Continue reading →

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Graphite Drawing – The Grinding Gears of Time

My brother, artist Lynn Burton, said “You never do anything simple. Do you?” Well, he’s right. I don’t. I don’t know why, but I just don’t. I understand how beautiful simplicity is…at least, in the art world. But somehow it … Continue reading →

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Reviewing Three Selected Blog Posts

From time to time the writers at Art Center Information prefer to go back and review a few selected blogs written in the past. Here are references to three informative blogs that may help the novice understand certain valuable tips … Continue reading →

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Tips For The Art Novice

Artist, Richard D. Burton, spent over forty years in sales management and had little time to participate in art. However, he always intended to concentrate on it after retiring, which he did in the summer of 2010. We caught up … Continue reading →

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Tip to Capture the Moment

There are those unaware that Pablo Picasso usually started his paintings with carefully executed and realistic drawings. Later he would paint over the drawings as his study of the subject progressed and deepened. This was not unusual for artists of … Continue reading →

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Review The Most Popular Blogpost of The Past Ninety Days

When writing a daily blog, it is important to jump back now and then to get some handle on interest from the viewers. This is why we will do a review here of the top blog post selected as the … Continue reading →

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