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Perfect Your Pastel Landscape Painting

Premium Pastel Landscape Palette | pastel landscape painting

The Pastel Landscape Premium Palette offers tutorials by today’s top pastel artists and art materials to help you perfect your pastel landscape painting. For the month of May, get $10 off. Full Article

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Inspire Your Art with the June Issue of Pastel Journal!

Pastel Journal June 2012 issue | pastel art magazine

The June 2012 issue of Pastel Journal features landscape painters’ secrets for capturing dramatic effects of light in pastel; a must-read step-by-step demo for painting light and shadow; a master pastel artist’s tips for taking a painterly approach to rendering buildings in a landscape; and a treasure trove of jewel-toned impressionist landscapes. Full Article

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Artist’s Network eBooks | An Art Instruction Digital Library

Artists Network eBooks | art instruction

Learn about the newly launched Artist’s Network eBooks, an online ebook reader that offers a full digital art instruction library of more than 100 (and growing) art books from North Light Books. Full Article

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Google Art Project Adds 134 Museums

Fans of the Google Art Project will want to revisit the site: 134 new art museum partnerships brings the total of art works in the virtual collection to more than 30,000, with Street View images for 46 museums, and more on the way, says Google. Full Article

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Gallery | Christine Cozic’s Hyperrealistic Watercolor Botanicals

Castor Bean and Ginger (watercolor on paper) by Christine Cozic | watercolor

In her richly detailed watercolor botanicals, Louisiana artist Christine Cozic takes viewers up close to encourage a more intimate look at nature’s bounty. Full Article

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Spring Savings

SpringSavings

Whether you’re eager to watch the new video workshops featuring Liz Haywood-Sullivan or get your hands on the gorgeous coffee table book, Art Journey America: Landscapes, or reader-favorite Pastel Pointers by Richard McKinley, there’s a pastel bargain waiting to be claimed. Full Article

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Savor Spring with Huge Sales on Watercolor Books, DVDs and Downloads

watercolor books, DVDs and downloads | sale

Whether you paint trees, flowers or water, you’re in luck: The most popular watercolor books, DVDs and downloads in our online shop are 40% off through March 30! Full Article

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Watercolor Artist Magazine Creativity Workshop Winner

Party Papers and Red Circles (watercolor on paper, 22x30) by Carol Z. Brody | watercolor

View the winning work from Watercolor Artist’s latest Creativity Workshop challenge, and learn how to get involved in the next one and paint your way to a prize. Full Article

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March Closeout Sales on Your Favorite (Pastel) Magazines

Pastel Journal magazine CD archive | Pastel Journal

We’ve got some amazing sales going on in our online shop: back issues of Pastel Journal magazines and great instructional North Light books at 50-80% off. Full Article

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March Closeout Sales on Your Favorite Watercolor Magazines and Books

Watercolor Artist magazine CD archive | Watercolor Artist

We’ve got some amazing sales going on in our online shop: back issues of Watercolor Artist magazines, great instructional watercolor DVDs and North Light books—at 50-80% off. Full Article

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