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Tips, Tricks, Thoughts, and inspiration from across the art spectrum.
Artist Tip 6: Fear and Courage
The process of painting never seems to go easily and rarely is it fun. We start each painting with great optimism, the highest of hopes, even confidence; and then, more often than not, things seem to go wrong. We find dissatisfaction quickly setting in.
Artist Tip 6: Fear and Courage
The process of painting never seems to go easily and rarely is it fun. We start each painting with great optimism, the highest of hopes, even confidence; and then, more...
Artist Tip 7: Stretching Canvas Onto A Frame Fr...
Assemble frame by fitting together tongue and groove ends of stretcher strips. Check the squareness of the frame by measuring across the diagonal comers so that both are equal. Attach cross bracing if needed.
Artist Tip 7: Stretching Canvas Onto A Frame Fr...
Assemble frame by fitting together tongue and groove ends of stretcher strips. Check the squareness of the frame by measuring across the diagonal comers so that both are equal. Attach...
Artist Tip 8: Some Thoughts on Landscape Painti...
If it's rusty, old, bent, or broken and somewhere out in the countryside, do you have an irresistible urge to paint it? Nothing seems to attract a watercolorist more than a rust bucket, a farm building in disrepair or the old rocking chair on its front porch.
Artist Tip 8: Some Thoughts on Landscape Painti...
If it's rusty, old, bent, or broken and somewhere out in the countryside, do you have an irresistible urge to paint it? Nothing seems to attract a watercolorist more than...
Artist Tip 9: It's All About the Edges
When you are first learning to paint in watercolor, you don't think much about edges. You're mostly concerned with control. You consider the painting a technical triumph when the dark green leaves you're painting don't run into your roses or your trees bleed into your barn
Artist Tip 9: It's All About the Edges
When you are first learning to paint in watercolor, you don't think much about edges. You're mostly concerned with control. You consider the painting a technical triumph when the dark...
Artist Tip 10: Sneaky Darks
Whoever told you that you should "always put your darkest darks next to your lightest lights" should have his (or, maybe, her) teaching certificate revoked. It is true that when you put your darkest darks next to your lightest lights that area will invariably become the focal point of your painting. But
Artist Tip 10: Sneaky Darks
Whoever told you that you should "always put your darkest darks next to your lightest lights" should have his (or, maybe, her) teaching certificate revoked. It is true that when...
Artist Tip 11: Color in Shadows
Most watercolorists seem wonderfully color-oriented when painting the lights in their landscapes. They fill these areas with vibrant and lively color. But when they address the shadow areas, they seem to lose their concern for color and resort to
Artist Tip 11: Color in Shadows
Most watercolorists seem wonderfully color-oriented when painting the lights in their landscapes. They fill these areas with vibrant and lively color. But when they address the shadow areas, they seem...
Artist Tip 12: Adding Metallic Foil
If you're a painter who likes to experiment with or occasionally try new materials, you'll have loads of fun with reflective materials, such as gold leaf and metallic foils.
Artist Tip 12: Adding Metallic Foil
If you're a painter who likes to experiment with or occasionally try new materials, you'll have loads of fun with reflective materials, such as gold leaf and metallic foils.
Artist Tip 13: Value Sketching
The number, shape, proportion, and placement of your lightest values are important considerations when planning a painting. To help make design decisions more easily, try using a medium-gray marker pen to shade all but the lightest areas in your sketch.
Artist Tip 13: Value Sketching
The number, shape, proportion, and placement of your lightest values are important considerations when planning a painting. To help make design decisions more easily, try using a medium-gray marker pen...
Artist Tip 14: Design For Dummies
Go to the file cabinet labeled DESIGN, open the drawer titled THE ELEMENTS and take out the file called LINE. The file is divided into two sections, STRAIGHT LINES and CURVED LINES
Artist Tip 14: Design For Dummies
Go to the file cabinet labeled DESIGN, open the drawer titled THE ELEMENTS and take out the file called LINE. The file is divided into two sections, STRAIGHT LINES and...
Artist Tip 15: Competing in Painting
Should less-experienced painters begin by submitting work to local shows or should they immediately try to compete on the regional or national level?
Artist Tip 15: Competing in Painting
Should less-experienced painters begin by submitting work to local shows or should they immediately try to compete on the regional or national level?
Artist Tip 16: Getting a New Slant on Painting
Watercolor is not easy to control. When painting, if you tip your board up high, the paint runs off the paper and onto your shoes; and, if you lay your paper flat, the paint settles into something that looks like
Artist Tip 16: Getting a New Slant on Painting
Watercolor is not easy to control. When painting, if you tip your board up high, the paint runs off the paper and onto your shoes; and, if you lay your...
Artist Tip 17: Paint BIG
There is no element in designing a painting that is more important than the size relationship of the shapes you employ. One of the generally accepted principles of design is variety in the division of space.
Artist Tip 17: Paint BIG
There is no element in designing a painting that is more important than the size relationship of the shapes you employ. One of the generally accepted principles of design is...
