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Toss Out the Rules in Your Watercolor Painting

The article excerpt below is from American Watercolor, and it’s for all my watercolor painting compatriots out there. I started out as an acrylic painter but grew to love watercolor as time went on. I learned techniques just like anyone else, and sometimes I use what I learned and sometimes

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Paint the Light, Skip the Details!

Possibly the hardest thing to do as a watercolor painter is to give up trying to paint all the details – every little thing that you see with your eyes. The best, most interesting watercolor paintings in my opinion are those that capture the light of a subject or landscape

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Decision Making in Painting

Our New Year’s Art Sale continues on Fine Art south through February! Art is more than an interesting thing to look at. Any finished painting – of any genre – is the culmination of a series of decisions, big and small. Artists read and write articles about how and when

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Free Oil Painting Landscape Demo

This video is of artist Bill Davidson, and a portion of his landscape oil painting demo called “Painting Simplified.” It’s over an hour long, but the actual length of the DVD is over 7 hours, so it’s far from the entire video. However, you can get a good feel of

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Filling your Environment with Art

Do you want to fill your home or office with art? Start here! You don’t need to be an artist yourself, or have deep pockets, to start to build a gallery of your own in your home. Whether it’s high-brow work or a homemade craft, artwork adds life and individuality

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On Artists Having a Style

Do you know artists who have a recognizable “style”? Many artists paint the same way, or in a similar way, using the same type of tools and materials, for most of their professional artistic life. They probably do this because they have been told that having a consistent look to

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How to Become an Artist

  “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – Audre Lord   The fact is, it’s not so easy being a visual artist. Only a small percentage of us are

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