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Go for the Glow! | Luminescent Acrylic Paints and Tom Bacher

Using luminescent acrylic paints, Tom Bacher paints landscapes and portraits with spectacular lighting effects. He combines different brands of fluorescent and phosphorescent paints to achieve the look he wants for various elements in paintings that change in color and composition over time.
Posted in Acrylic Painting Techniques & Art, Art Articles: Education & Topics, Art Mediums & Drawing, Cityscape Art, Creative Art Ideas Inspiration Tips & More, Landscape Painting: Techniques & Tutorials, Portrait & Figurative Art: How to Draw or Paint People & Figures, Read The Artist's Magazine, Subject, Top Art Techniques & Tips Tagged Acrylic Painting Techniques & Art, Landscape Painting: Techniques & Tutorials Comments Off
Ivanco Talevski Online Gallery

The Macedonia-born, Pennsylvania-based artist Invanco Talevski is Drawing magazine’s New and Notable artist for our spring 2013 issue. Here, enjoy a few more of the sometimes funny, sometimes unnerving, always idiosyncratic works by this fascinating artist. For more information and …
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Learning to See: Step-by-Step Demo with Sarah Lamb

Nothing is hard to paint when you look at every object the same way. Squint—it’s the most important thing you can do to decipher values.
Posted in Art Articles: Education & Topics, Art Mediums & Drawing, Oil Painting Techniques Tips & Instruction, Read The Artist's Magazine, Still Life Painting & Composition: Fruit Vegetables Vases & More, Subject, Top Art Techniques & Tips Tagged Oil Painting Techniques Tips & Instruction, Still Life Painting & Composition: Fruit Vegetables Vases & More Leave a comment
Sandrine Pelissier: Newspaper Collage and Painting Demo

See a painting demo by mixed media artist Sandrine Pelissier, showing how she created her newspaper collage, acrylic & ink piece, Recycling Life, a winner in The Artist’s Magazine’s 2013 All Media Art Competition.
Posted in Acrylic Painting Techniques & Art, Art Articles: Education & Topics, Art Competitions, Art Mediums & Drawing, Artist & Contest Winner Interviews & Profiles, Discover Mixed Media: Collage Sculpture Projects & Techniques, Landscape Painting: Techniques & Tutorials, Mixed Media Art, Techniques, Collage & Artists, Read The Artist's Magazine, Subject Tagged Acrylic Painting Techniques & Art, Landscape Painting: Techniques & Tutorials Comments Off
Our May 2013 Artist of the Month | Paul Chapman and his Acrylic Painting

Congratulations to artist Paul Chapman,a finalist in The Artist’s Magazine’s Annual Art Competition. Read about his acrylic self-portrait, A Quick Brush Up.
Posted in Acrylic Painting Techniques & Art, Art Articles: Education & Topics, Art Mediums & Drawing, Artist & Contest Winner Interviews & Profiles, Portrait & Figurative Art: How to Draw or Paint People & Figures, Read The Artist's Magazine, Subject Tagged Acrylic Painting Techniques & Art Leave a comment
Step-by-Step Demo: A Portrait in Colored Pencil

In this free painting demo, Shawn Falchetti’s demonstrates how to create his portrait painting “Opaline Dreams” with colored pencil and water-soluble crayon.
Posted in Art Articles: Education & Topics, Art Mediums & Drawing, Colored Pencil Art & Techniques, Portrait & Figurative Art: How to Draw or Paint People & Figures, Read The Artist's Magazine, Subject, Top Art Techniques & Tips Tagged Colored Pencil, Creative Art Ideas Inspiration Tips & More Leave a comment
Painting En Plein Air, Part 1 | The Field Sketch

Every serious artist understands the importance of working from life. Whether it’s the still life, portrait or landscape, there’s no reference material that can replace the experience of interpreting subject matter one-on-one. While it’s never easy to progress from painting from photo reference to painting from life, it takes special concentration to do so in the landscape with the ever-changing lighting and conditions. This, along with the overwhelming vastness of the landscape, can stymie even the most technically advanced pastelist.
Posted in Art Articles: Education & Topics, Art Mediums & Drawing, Get Pastel Journal, the Ultimate Resource for Pastel Artists, Landscape Painting: Techniques & Tutorials, Pastel Art Techniques Painting Landscapes & More, Richard McKinley's Pastel Pointers Blog, Subject, Top Art Blogs Tagged Landscape Painting: Techniques & Tutorials, plein air painting Comments Off
Women Painting Women

This past summer, I was lucky enough to visit the National Gallery in London. Scattered throughout are thousands of artworks, and after walking through just a few of the rooms, I began to feel overwhelmed by looking at the portraits–like I was seeing my own fragile humanity reflected back at me. The subjects all looked beautiful, young, and vibrant, but of course, they’ve all been gone for a long time.



