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Tips to Finding Freedom in Your Realistic Paintings

If you are a realist painter working freely, with no drawing, without preparing, and having only a slight idea of what composition you are after has a downside to it. What should you add or remove to make the image … Continue reading →

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How Important is Desire in Your Artwork?

For years, I felt that successfully completing a work of art was ninety-nine percent perspiration, that it was my responsibility to hang in there no matter what it took. In other words, determination and hard work. Let’s face it, making … Continue reading →

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Tip to Find and Direct Your Focal Point of Interest in Your Artwork

An artist that wishing to capture the viewer and control their interest toward the focal point in their painting can take lessons from some of the masters. I discussed this in a blog post about a year ago, and I … Continue reading →

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Tip: Using the Camera With Your Artwork

The camera is a valuable tool for an artist. It’s a great guide to use when needing realistic facts. Personally, this is the main reason that I use it. However, I have found that photographs are generally useless to mix … Continue reading →

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Art Tip: Shape up Your Art and Entertain

Sometimes, it’s angles, sizes, spaces and interesting shapes that make many of our paintings “work” to entertain our audience. Lynn Burton’s untitled painting to the left is a good example of what I mean. Not only did he use all … Continue reading →

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The First Mission of Art: To Entertain

Sometimes it is the abstract color work. Sometimes it is the realization that it is not abstract but realistic. Sometimes it is expressionistic or impressionistic. Sometimes it is nothing more than colorful patterns that create pleasure to the viewer. Much … Continue reading →

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The Art Scale Goes From Here to There

Although artist, Richard Burton, tends toward realism, realism is not his goal, as you can see in the segment of The Old Woodie (at the left). It is easy for you the viewer to see that it is a painting … Continue reading →

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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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