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Pat Gilmore | Artist of the Month
Posted in Acrylic, Animals, Articles, Artist Interviews & Profiles, Inspiration and Creativity, Medium, Subject, The Artist’s Magazine
Tagged Acrylic, Animals
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Marla Thirsk: Artist of the Month
Piecing together images from the past and current sentiments is essential for this artist’s creative process.
Posted in Acrylic, Articles, Artist Interviews & Profiles, Inspiration and Creativity, Medium, The Artist’s Magazine
Tagged Acrylic
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Amplify Visual Impact with Contrasting Elements
In some drawings, ordinary objects seem to take on distinctive roles, thereby bringing a work to life. The secret behind this transformation and resulting dynamism may be just a simple matter of contrasting elements. There are many types of contrast and juxtaposition you can use to make your work more engaging. In this article we’ll explore five of them.
Posted in Art Demos & Techniques, Articles, Medium, Other Medium, The Artist’s Magazine
Tagged Composition, Drawing
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Draw a House Using Two-Point Perspective
Learn the basics of two-point perspective by constructing a simple house together step by step. We’ll imagine the house is on a little hill and we’re viewing it from somewhere down the hill; that is, our eye level is below the house. The structure is turned so that it’s in two-point perspective—we can see two sides of it. Everything about this house is symmetrical except for the chimney located at one end rather than in the center.
Posted in Art Demos & Techniques, Articles, Drawing, Landscapes, Subject, The Artist’s Magazine
Tagged Drawing, Landscapes
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Robert K. Carsten | Representational Still Life Demo
Robert K. Carsten’s version of still life encompasses paper bags and bottle caps, where the emphasis is on the spent rather than the fresh, on the man-made rather than the natural. “When I first started this series, I didn’t think of these pictures as still lifes,” he says. “Only after I realized they were still lifes did I think the series was about finding—not deliberately arranging, but painting found objects sometimes in accidental arrangements.” Carsten received his training at the Art Students League in New York City, the Rhode Island School of Design and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Carrara, Italy. Scavenging through recycling plants for the perfect found still life is a compelling adventure for Carsten, “Visually, it’s like going to a toy store.”
Posted in Art Demos & Techniques, Articles, Composition, Medium, Pastel, Still Life, Subject, The Artist’s Magazine
Tagged Pastel, Still Life
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Lisa Grossman: River Demonstration in Oil
“Prairies lack the obvious grandeur of mountain ranges, red-rock canyons or the ocean,” says Lisa Grossman, who was featured in The Artist’s Magazine. “It’s a more subtle beauty that comes to some slowly, but it’s undeniably powerful.” Grossman was inspired by the tallgrass prairie of the Flint Hills. The contrast between the dense, rugged topography of the Connoquenessing Watershed she had left behind and the prairie’s low horizon and wide-open spaces inspired in her an exhilarating sensation of freedom.
Posted in Art Demos & Techniques, Articles, Landscapes, Medium, Oil, Seascapes, Subject, The Artist’s Magazine
Tagged Oil, Seascapes
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Understand The Art of Licensing
Many of us believe art is as essential as the air we breathe— that it’s food for the soul, heart and mind; yet, in this present recession, the usually flourishing art market is suffering, just as are other segments of the economy, making it necessary for most artists to be more creative than ever about marketing and selling their work.
Achieve Smooth Color Transitions In Your Painting
Painting objects that have more than one color can be difficult, especially when you’re depicting gradations to show dimension. The task gets even more difficult when the objects, such as petals or drapery folds, are broken up with splashes of light and shadow. You can find yourself with an area where four or more colors come together, all needing to be blended seamlessly.
Posted in Art Demos & Techniques, Articles, Flowers, Medium, Oil, Subject, The Artist’s Magazine
Tagged Flowers, Oil
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Five Tips to Achieve Spatial Depth In Your Drawings
The two kinds of perspective that artists use are linear and atmospheric (or aerial). Linear perspective uses lines and vanishing points to determine how much an object’s apparent size changes with distance. Atmospheric perspective deals with how the appearance of an object is affected by the space or atmosphere between it and the viewer. Leonardo da Vinci noticed this latter phenomenon and dubbed it “the perspective of disappearance.”
Posted in Art Demos & Techniques, Articles, Drawing, Medium, The Artist’s Magazine
Tagged Drawing, Landscapes
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Keith Adams: Artist of the Month
Using simple strokes, this artist makes his work appealing by leaving evidence of the painter’s hand.
Posted in Articles, Artist Interviews & Profiles, Medium, Oil, The Artist’s Magazine
Tagged Oil, Portrait and Figure
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