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Tips For Drawing Realistic Hands

I’ve always admired James Frederick’s graphite drawing, “The List”. The wrinkles and veins on the weathered hands tells untold narratives about the main character without seeing any other descriptive characteristic. However, when giving tips about the drawing of realistic hands, … Continue reading →

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A Revolution in Western Art

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque bounced ideas off each other and enjoyed each others company. However, they knew they were working in new and adventurous territory when together they started the cubist movement. Art critic Louis Vauxcelles described it when … Continue reading →

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Artist Gives “Father Time” a New Face

In the graphite drawing that artist, Richard D. Burton, is working on, a new face on father time is taking shape. The artist is working from the left side to the right side, and top to bottom of the overall … Continue reading →

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Tip to Recapture Art Inspiration

All artists have temporary mental blocks. Old ideas lead nowhere, while new ones are impossible to find. There seems to be a lack of enthusiasm, a forgotten feeling of what makes art exciting. Does any of this sound familiar? Remember, … Continue reading →

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Artist, Richard D. Burton, Working on “Grinding Gears of Time”

Here is a partial drawing, Grinding Gears of Time, by artist, Richard D. Burton. The drawing is 18″X24″. The main figure (Father Time) is just a sketch taped onto the substrate which has many of the floating gears in the … Continue reading →

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Three Tips~A Brief Course on Art Marketing

There are thousands of arts and crafts shows in the United States each year. Usually, if you visit these you will find local artists exhibiting and selling their works. However, many artist are not educated in marketing their work, and … Continue reading →

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An Artist is an Artist if They Believe They Are

Many art schools today rarely hire teacher’s without at least a masters’ degree in fine arts. However, many of our great and renowned artists did not have degrees in art. Henri Matisse and Wassily Kandinsky, for example, had their formal … Continue reading →

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Masking and Washes in Watercolor Painting

In his painting, Woman in the Field, artist Richard D. Burton used masking as well as layering in his wet-on-dry watercolor style painting. He explains his technique here for the viewers of Art Center Information. To prepare the painting and … Continue reading →

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Artist Works on Next Stage of His Drawing

One of the most important steps in completing a good drawing is how well you get each portion of your future picture placed on the substrate. Here artist Richard D. Burton is tracing the figure of “father time” in the … Continue reading →

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