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New Video This Week!How to Paint: The Grisaille Method with Jon deMartin
Learn watercolor techniques for up-close depth and dimension in your flower paintings. Learn more about How to Paint: The Grisaille Method with Jon deMartin here.Get instant online access to this video, and many other art workshop videos, at ArtistsNetwork.TV—now available for viewing on your iPad too!
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Holiday Gift List | Gift Ideas for Artists
‘Tis the Season again. The leftovers from the Thanksgiving feast have been devoured and now it’s time to focus on the holiday gift list. Selecting a perfect gift for a loved one or cherished friend is never easy, but the artists in our lives can prove to be especially difficult. If you find yourself in a quandary as to what to get for that special pastel artist in your life, I have a few suggestions that may make it easier.
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Top Ten How to Draw Manga Art Supplies
If you haven’t checked out our sister site, IMPACT-books.com, lately, you might want to head over and see what’s up. We’ve been sharing some great how to draw and paint demonstrations on everything from fantasy art and science fiction to …
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Which French Easel is Right For You?
Pastel Frequent Flyers | Tips for Navigating Air Travel with Art Supplies
I’m frequently required to travel by air. As any pastelist knows, who has had to go through the strict TSA inspection routine at an airport with a pastel palette, it can be a stressful ordeal. Our palette is our means of creation. It’s filled with delicate, expensive sticks of pigment that often take days to select and organize. Handing it over to others—people who may not share our concern—is gut wrenching. Having gone through the inspection process repeatedly and culling tips from other pastel frequent flyers, I have a few tips to share that may make your airport experiences go a little more smoothly.
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Studio Tools | Keeping Things Clean With a Messy Medium
If cleanliness is next to godliness, then pastelists definitely spend a lot of their time in hell. While it’s true that our wet-media brothers and sisters can be messy when they paint, it’s the pastelist that has to contend with fine pigment dust that has a way of contaminating everything within proximity …
Learning to Paint with Watercolor for Beginners
Hake Brush: Making Your Own Mark
Learn about this unique paint brush in this art tip from Birgit O’Connor, who shares what a Hake is, how to use it and how to make it last longer for your paintings!
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How to Choose the Best Frame to Present and Protect Your Artwork
Learn more about the fine art of framing your artworks in this exclusive article that explains it all: When to frame? Which frame? Glass options and more.
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Plein Air Painting in Pastel | Plein Air Painters Tell You What You Need to Know
Plein air painting adds a dimension to painting the landscape that some artists find irresistible. Painting outdoors provides a deeper understanding of the various qualities of light and atmosphere. Whether you paint finished paintings or color studies for studio paintings (or something in between), plein air painting will bolster your observation skills and enliven your work. If you’re taking up plein air painting for the first time, there is a lot to sort out—from packing your bags to picking a painting spot. Here we’ve collected tips from pastel painters who are plein air devotees.
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