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Hunting for Deciduous Tree Reference Photos

"I am having trouble locating color photo's of deciduous trees to paint. Hope you can help me." -- Virginia L. You might have better luck searching for photos...

Cold Tone for a Melancholy Painting

"Cheerfulness of tone is the bright dominant; of colour, the warm dominant; of line, lines above the horizontal. "Tranquillity of tone is equality of dark and pale; of colour, of warm and cold, and the...

Selling Art by Subscription

Here's another approach to add to your selling/marketing repertoire: selling your paintings (or prints of your paintings) by subscription. By signing up to pay X amount a month, for a year (or less),...

Top 10 Tips for Painting Composition

Strong composition in a painting can be very intangible. If it's done well you don't notice it (unless you start to analyze the painting), you just know that the painting has something...

Your Painting is Rubbish

Think some of your paintings are rubbish and suitable only for tossing in the bin? Well, one of the art exhibitions I saw in London this week was The Art Bin. (It's...

Painting Photos Challenge #11 Sunflower

There's a new Painting Photos Challenge, this time featuring a a sunflower. Will you stick to the format of the photo or use a squarer canvas? Will you contain the flower within...

Painting Tip of the Week: Storing Masking Fluid

This week's painting tip is from Linda Minkowski and is about storing masking fluid so it doesn't dry out in the bottle. Find out what the 'secret' is here... See Also: • What is...

Art Materials on a Budget

It's all too easy to spend too much money on art materials. There's something so seductive about the potential of yet another blank canvas or pad of paper. Something so irresistible about...

Seeing the Henry Moore Exhibition at Tate Britain

British sculptor Henry Moore reduced figures to curves and shapes, an essence of a figure rather than representation. (He worked with other subjects too, but it's his figures I like the most.)...

Shiny! Iridescent! Watercolor!

See Also: • Gifts Ideas for Artists • Before You Buy Watercolor Supplies • Buy Direct: Iridescent Watercolor Medium Photo © 2010 Marion Boddy-Evans. Licensed to About.com, Inc Shiny! Iridescent! Watercolor! originally appeared on ...

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