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Ideas and Tips for the Artist and Decorative Painter |
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.
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?
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.
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!