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Learn how value, hue and tone can add to negative painting techniques for vibrant watercolor and acrylic paintings. Learn more about Linda Kemp's Negative Painting Techniques: Simplifying Color 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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Art Articles: Education & Topics
June 2013 Artist of the Month | Amy Roy

Congratulations to artist Amy Roy who was a finalist in The Artist’s Magazine’s 29th Annual Art Competition. Roy’s oil painting The Adoptive Parent caught our attention right away. Read on to learn more about her inspiration and techniques.
Posted in Animal Art: Drawing & Painting Birds Horses Dogs & More, Art Articles: Education & Topics, Art Competitions, Art Mediums & Drawing, Artist & Contest Winner Interviews & Profiles, Oil Painting Techniques Tips & Instruction, Read The Artist's Magazine, Subject Tagged Animal Art: Drawing & Painting Birds Horses Dogs & More, Art Contests & Competitions Leave a comment
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda? Just Do It
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Water-Soluble Colored Pencil Demo | Gary Greene

Gary Greene shares his step-by-step wet-on-dry technique for creating Flower Power (water-soluble colored pencils and wax-based colored pencil on paper, 17¾x24), as seen in the August 2013 issue of Watercolor Artist.
Posted in Art Articles: Education & Topics, Art Mediums & Drawing, Creative Art Ideas Inspiration Tips & More, Get Watercolor Artist: The Ultimate Resource for Watercolor Painting, Painting Flowers: Floral Art, Still Life Painting & Composition: Fruit Vegetables Vases & More, Subject, Tips and Tools, Top Art Techniques & Tips, Watercolor Art: How to Techniques Painting & Landscapes Tagged Painting Flowers: Floral Art Comments Off
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Progression of Heavenly Hues: A Pastel Step-by-Step Demo

In this excerpt from Stan Sperlak’s feature article “Into the Night” from The Artist’s Magazine (June 2013), Sperlak demonstrates how to complete a sunset landscape from start to finish. Scroll down to read this step-by-step demo, and learn how to portray with pastel the ethereal qualities of night.
Posted in Art Articles: Education & Topics, Art Mediums & Drawing, Landscape Painting: Techniques & Tutorials, Pastel Art Techniques Painting Landscapes & More, Read The Artist's Magazine, Subject, Top Art Techniques & Tips Tagged Landscape Painting: Techniques & Tutorials, Pastel Art Techniques Painting Landscapes & More Comments Off
Where I Get My Vintage Illustration Fix

In my heart, I belong to Cincinnati. This town is known for loyalists, and even though I typically buck against the current, this is one instance in my life where I proudly flow along with it in content tranquility. That is why I always feel slightly guilty when I skip over all the cute little jars of buttons near the registers of all the cute little stores in Cincinnati. I do this because I know about a well-kept secret tucked on the second floor of a shop.
Watercolor Painting Techniques from Soon Warren

Soon Warren has three new watercolor painting videos out that you’re going to love! Learn how to paint cherries in a glass bowl, koi fish in a rippling pond, and get great tips and techniques for creating great watercolor paintings. …
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Art That Makes You Think (Twice)

When I opened the pages of Strokes of Genius 4, The Best of Drawing: Line and saw ‘Splash’ by Ljubica Fa-Hardi, it appeared that perhaps face paint or Kool-Aid had splashed the subject–this little girl with a squinched face, but…
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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





