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Art Center Information Weekly Wrap-Up 9/3 Thru 9/8

Monday 9/3: There was no entry on this day. Tuesday 9/4: For your art information, in post titled, Painting Light in Open Shade, we wrote that as a vantage point, open shade is the best choice from which to … Continue reading →

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The Why of Drawing

Many artists will say they draw because they can’t help it. Often, throughout the day, I reach for a pencil and a sketch pad to draw that quick moment in time that needs to be recorded in pictorial form. The … Continue reading →

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How Important Are Art Books?

I took some quick photos of my art library. Some of these books were purchased in the past year, but most were purchased over the past four decades. As a matter of fact, some of the pages are turned yellow … Continue reading →

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Tips for Manipulating Acrylics

Manipulating acrylics on a surface can be interesting and rewarding, resulting in delightful effects by using such tools as various brushes, palette knife, old credit card, razor blade, and even an icepick, as well as, almost anything you can imagine … Continue reading →

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Painting Light While in Open Shade

Painting in open shade can sometimes be and often is a most frustrating experience of color contradictions. Predominantly, the color temperature, as it relates, is cool lights and warm darks, however this can easily reverse itself back and forth because … Continue reading →

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Art Center Information Weekly Wrap-up~8/27–9/1/2012

On Monday: We found an old interview with Andrew Wyeth and reprinted here. It was fascinating when he talked about his painting, Christina’s World. His description of working months on the brown grass imagining a pink crumpled lobster in the … Continue reading →

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Advantages of an Overcast Light

Most people like sunny, cloudless days, but when it comes to painting, artists prefer the soft illumination of an overcast light diffused through a cloud covered sky. It is nature at her most benign. Under this gentle quality of overcast … Continue reading →

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Tips for Painting in Direct Sunlight

Depending on the subject you select to paint, direct sunlight usually produces high contrast effects. These effects are usually controlled by the time of day (angle of the sunlight), and how the observer is positioned relating to the direction of … Continue reading →

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Tip for Painting Alla Prima

The start of a good alla prima painting (done in one session) is a good, well planned, block-in. The study of art defines a block-in as: a sketch or outline done roughly and generally without detail. When painting landscapes, you … Continue reading →

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3 Tips for the Perfect Composition

When it comes to artistic composition, you can study art from an instructor, read a great many books on the subject, or search the internet for all the suggested “rules” that apply. But for me, I only accept the … Continue reading →

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