Tag Archives: R. D. Burton

Watercolor: The Delightful Medium

With watercolor (what I call the delightful medium), you can adapt the techniques that work for you and successfully incorporate your own aims and ideas once you have enough experience and have gained confidence. It will not take long (after … Continue reading →

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Acrylic Painting

The virtues of acrylic paint are purity of color and short drying time. There are a great many artists using acrylics, and there are a great many artists that encourage painters to stay away from them. Because of the unfounded … Continue reading →

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Artist Preparing for a Painting

I’m sure most all artists do strange things in an effort to capture some idea for a drawing or painting. Here is artist, R. D. Burton preparing a pose for a painting of father time. In the right hand will … Continue reading →

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Five Tips for Self-Critiquing

An artist needs to develop a ritual (if you may) that helps them determine the very best they can do when painting a picture. Over time, I have come to use the following procedure when finally deciding one of … Continue reading →

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Weekly Review 9/10 thru 9/15

On Monday, 9/10: We posted: Renoir~The Inspiring Artist. It can be said that Renoir continues inspiring artists of today. I realize this to be especially true when I daily search the internet for contemporary artist’s blog and web sights and … Continue reading →

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Art Questions Answered By Artist Brothers, Lynn and R.D. Burton

A member of our staff at Art Center Information caught up with artist brothers, Lynn and R.D.Burton, yesterday, and they were kind enough to answer a few questions that some of our readers have asked. Art Center Information: What tips … 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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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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