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Create Your Own
Custom Matting For Framing
By
Joanne Jones
Do you have an unusual sized picture to frame? Can't find matting in a
colour or shape you like? It might just be time to make your own.
Cartooning - A
Great Hobby and More
By
Ken Nelson
Do you ever find yourself doodling when you should be doing something
important? Maybe
you're always getting in trouble for daydreaming when you should be
concentrating.
Oil Painting
Classes - Tips On Oil Painting Supplies
By
Simon Goodwin
When you are starting to learn to oil paint, it can be easy to spend a
fortune on oil painting supplies. In my
oil painting classes I show people how you can get great effects without
overspending!
Painting
Technique - Paint the Negative Space
By
Catherine Calder
The negative space is the space left once you have ignored/removed an
object. Use this easy painting technique to make your paintings more
interesting with very little effort.
Acrylic Painting
By
Linda Walter
You can paint on anything with the right paints and tools! Decorate your
home like a pro. Sell gorgeous hand-painted items at craft shows, art
galleries, art shows, flea markets!
Paint a Wall Mural
By
Linda Walter
Give your walls a distinctive personal look by painting a wall mural.
Learn to paint a wall mural in your home. Use a projector or stencil to
get the wall mural design you want
Sketch To Improve Your Bird
Watching Skills
By Richard Chapo
Read most guides on bird watching and you will be inundated with
information on binoculars and photographing. With birding, sketching is
a better way to go.
Framing Your Art Prints
By Edwin Mah
Find out how to choose the right frame for your art prints and paintings
and also why framing is important if you want to preserve the life of
your art work.
Personal Revelations: The Magic
of Art
By Rivky Shimon
To discover more about yourself, pick up a brush and visit your nearest
canvas.
How to Draw Fantasy Creatures
By Will Kalif
Drawing fantasy creatures like unicorns, mermaids, and dragons can at
first be a difficult thing to do.
Beginner’s Acrylic
Painting - Choosing Paper Painting Surfaces - What You Need to Know
By Catherine Calder
Knowing the best paper to choose when starting a painting can be
confusing.
Mindfulness and Painting:
Playing Without Expectations
By Maya Talisman Frost
Think you need to take training in order to be an artist? Start playing!
It's a Record! - Your Art
Business Records
By Dorothy Gauvin
Art is a gift meant to
be shared but in order to share it, artists have to put their work out
on the open market.
How To Get Started As An Artist
- What Is Holding you Back?
By Dorothy Gauvin
Many people spend a lifetime wishing they had followed their secret
dream.
Artist vs Student - Quality Not
Quantity
By Ronnie Tucker
There are two schools of thought in the art world; one says that you
should buy cheap materials until you improve and the second says you
should go with the more expensive quality from the start.
The Painted Portrait - What Is
So Hard About It?
By Dorothy Gauvin
Most people tend to answer: 'Getting the likeness.' But any
experienced, successful, and honest portrait painter can tell you that
'getting a likeness' is purely a matter of careful observation and
measurement of the physical proportions of your sitter.
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Making Memorable Art
- The Power Of Story
By Dorothy Gauvin
If you don't like Modern Art, is it truly because you're just too
dumb to understand it?
It's A Record! Keeping Track Of
Your Artwork
By Dorothy Gauvin
When we start out as artists, the last thing on our minds is the
problem future biographers may have in cataloguing our body of work.
All Too Solid Flesh - Painting
The Figure
By Dorothy Gauvin
Even in a Life class, your models will be wearing their skins.
How Artists Can Avoid
'Writer's Block' - What Shall I Paint?
By Dorothy Gauvin
How can aspiring painters develop their own style and generate the
enthusiasm to keep them going for a lifetime of making Art?
Creating Art May Be Your
Passion, But Marketing Art Must Be Your Business
By Arnold White
Most artists consider themselves and artist first and a
businessperson second. However, the two must go hand in hand in order
for artists to make their living from their artwork.
How to Price An Artwork - The
Vital Question - Or Is It? x
By Dorothy Gauvin
It has been famously said that - 'An artist's reputation is only as
big as his price tag.
Colour - Get it Right, First Time
By Dorothy Gauvin
I do not know who invented The Colour Wheel but s/he sure was a
friend to every artist who has followed.
8 Great Reasons to Paint
with Watercolor
By Charlene Thomforde
Why are watercolor painting techniques great? Learn 8 reasons why
watercolor has an advantage over other mediums.
Using The Star - An Easy Way To Good Composition
By Dorothy Gauvin
Did you ever look at a painting half-completed on your easel and
think: Something's wrong!
The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears -
Now Let's Get That Artwork Published
By Arnold White
The dramatic growth of the print market has been extraordinary. Just
a few years ago there were only a handful of publishers representing a
few artists.
Learn How to Draw The Easy Way
Using the “Five-S” Method
By Will Kalif
One of the difficult things about learning to draw is understanding the
process an artist uses to go from a blank piece of paper to a completed
drawing.
From the Writing of
Emily Carr, West Coast Artist:
"Though everything was so still,
you were aware of tremendous forces of growth pounding through the
clearing, aware of sap gushing in every leaf, of push, push, push, the
bursting of buds; the creeping of vines. Everything expanding
every minute, but doing it so subtly you did not actually see anything
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