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Tips, Tricks, Thoughts, and inspiration from across the art spectrum.
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...
Artist Tip 18: Value Contrast
I am the proud owner of a black lab named Jazz. When she is resting on her off white dog bed her marvelous black silhouette begs to be painted. A black shape against a white background is the strongest visual contrast possible. If it is your goal is to feature a shape or attract attention to a shape then VALUE CONTRAST works best.
Artist Tip 18: Value Contrast
I am the proud owner of a black lab named Jazz. When she is resting on her off white dog bed her marvelous black silhouette begs to be painted. A...
Artist Tip 19: Intensity Contrast
In the last issue of Palette-able Tips, I introduced you to my dog, Jazz, and used her as an example of how value contrast may be used to serve a particular purpose. My intent in "Jazz Dreams" was to feature her majestic shape, but when intentions change so must the contrast. In this painting,
Artist Tip 19: Intensity Contrast
In the last issue of Palette-able Tips, I introduced you to my dog, Jazz, and used her as an example of how value contrast may be used to serve a...
Artist Tip 20: Round and Flat
We wanted to make everything look round when we were first learning to paint; it was one of our big tricks. We'd been taught how to make things look three-dimensional by shading them, and we could hardly wait to put shadows on the lighthouse tower, the rocks, the tree trunks, the boats, and all the buildings in view.
Artist Tip 20: Round and Flat
We wanted to make everything look round when we were first learning to paint; it was one of our big tricks. We'd been taught how to make things look three-dimensional...
Artist Tip 21: The Right Gesture
Drawing and painting people should be easy. After all, there's nothing we're more familiar with than the human form. If we have no trouble drawing and painting flowers and trees and barns, then we should find painting people easier still. But we don't.
Artist Tip 21: The Right Gesture
Drawing and painting people should be easy. After all, there's nothing we're more familiar with than the human form. If we have no trouble drawing and painting flowers and trees...
Artist Tip 22: Getting Into Shape
We don't see shapes; we see things -boats and barns and someone that looks amazingly like Uncle Mert. We don't think about any of these things as shapes-rectangles or circles or triangles. Instead, our minds form complicated images of these objects based on past experiences and associations.
Artist Tip 22: Getting Into Shape
We don't see shapes; we see things -boats and barns and someone that looks amazingly like Uncle Mert. We don't think about any of these things as shapes-rectangles or circles...
Artist Tip 23: Using Watercolor Canvas
One of the first things I noticed in painting on Fredrix Watercolor Canvas was that I could achieve many different kinds of edges than on paper.
Artist Tip 23: Using Watercolor Canvas
One of the first things I noticed in painting on Fredrix Watercolor Canvas was that I could achieve many different kinds of edges than on paper.
Artist Tip 24: Rusticating in Paint
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.Where does this interest in the rustic and antiquated come from? Is it acquired or are we born with it?
Artist Tip 24: Rusticating in Paint
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.Where does this interest in the...
Artist Tip 25: Cezanne: Watercolor and Form
You may have wondered. His watercolors look a little thin; his figure drawing seems a bit shaky, and the perspective in his paintings often seems slightly off. In fact, there may be a couple of people in your art club who you think are better artists. So, why is he called the Father of Modern Art?
Artist Tip 25: Cezanne: Watercolor and Form
You may have wondered. His watercolors look a little thin; his figure drawing seems a bit shaky, and the perspective in his paintings often seems slightly off. In fact, there...
