Painting Tips Okay so you are a color guru right. You are very comfortable with your full palette of 26 different paint colors and all that. Wonderful now want to learn to get even more comfortable with color then it is time to mix it up a bit. Try variations of a limited color palette […]
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Cleaning Oil Brushes For anyone that has picked up an oil painting brush and used oil paint the worst thing is cleaning the brushes afterward. You can never seem to get all the crud out of the brush that will harden in the ferrules of the brush. Oh sure you can try to use mineral
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Seeing Color with an Artist’s Eye As an artist one of the greatest challenges is color. Use of color in a painting conveys mood as well as light and value or form. I don’t want to talk about the strategies for color mixing. Rather the choices in your colors and how to create mood that
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Painting Quickly, Tone the Canvas When painting in Plein Air and doing quick studies or even more finished paintings this is a technique to help color structure and make your painting stronger. Here is what you do: 1. Get a large brush one that will cover your canvas quickly. 2. Mix up a
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Ideas in Watercolor: Creating Textures Instead of using salt try sprinkling wheat, rice, even confetti into a watercolor wash anything really. After it dries you will have a wonderful texture you can layer washes on top and get great effects. Salt will deteriorate your paper over time don’t use it.
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An Interview Telling My Path to the Arts Tell us a bit about yourself. I was born and raised in the southwest deserts of Arizona. My mother is an avid folk artist and toll painter so I grew up surrounded by art and art books that inspired my imagination. I began taking art classes in
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