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How to Make Fascinating Watercolor Paintings

If you are fascinated with watercolor, you can make fascinating watercolor paintings. You need only be passionate. When you are passionate about something your work will come to life. You will make paintings that touch, excite, and fascinate other people, … Continue reading →

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Little Secrets When Drawing

The word drawing seems to be one that many artists and art students use freely, but which no two ever seem to use in quite the same way; and although there are many valuable books, video, art classes and other … Continue reading →

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Artistic Style

An artist affect viewers with their style by creating expressive paintings. If you think of the different categories of artistic style, then you can understand what I mean. For example, start with the realistic style of painting, and work your … Continue reading →

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Art is The Job

Art is my job now, and has been since I retired a few years back from over forty-six years with a sales management career in business. I knew all along that when I retired, I would find a way to … Continue reading →

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Transparent Watercolor

“Watercolor has an action all its own, it moves, it crawls, and it fights back.”~John Pike Instead of using the term technique one uses when painting transparent watercolor, it should be considered tricks. It’s hard pressed for one to learn … Continue reading →

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When It’s Finished, It’s finished…But When?

With me, it’s not the technical aspects of how to paint, nor to fix a flawed painting, but when to stop and say it is over…it’s finished. Let’s face it, you can’t keep adding another drop of paint or another … Continue reading →

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The Artist’s Studio

It would be great if all of us could afford the perfect artist’s studio filled with expensive furnishings, and have the luxury or means to create the ideal work area. However, where ever an artist sets up an easel is … Continue reading →

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The Importance of The Impressionists

“Everything painted on the spot has a strength, a power, a vividness that cannot be recaptured in the studio.”~Eugene Boudin There are some great arguments and discussions about the importance of painting in open air rather than in the studio. … Continue reading →

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What Art Fad is Next? The World Waits.

“Suddenly, Abstract Expressionism pooped out, and New York was full of shadowy has beens and fallen kings. What fad was next? The world waited. The answer came. The Figure. Did we realists get our hopes up? Perhaps for a few … Continue reading →

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Simplify Your Subject

When you consider some of the really good artists and their works, you often wonder what they have in common. In many cases, an art critic might point out that it is the ability to simplify their subject. This, of … Continue reading →

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