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The Color Black | Artists’ Pigments for Black Paint
Learn about the various artists’ pigments used to create the color black. Don’t hesitate to paint with black to achieve the richest, darkest values in your paintings. Choose from this list of black paint pigments provided by artist Koo Schadler.
Posted in Acrylic, Art Demos & Techniques, Art Materials & Tools, Articles, Color Mixing, Colored Pencil, Drawing, Medium, Mixed Media Medium, Oil, Other Medium, Pastel, Portrait / Figure, The Artist’s Magazine, Tips and Tools, Watercolor
Tagged art demos & techniques, Color Mixing, Portrait and Figure
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Fine Art Slideshow of The Artist’s Magazine, May 2012 issue
Presenting a slideshow of the May 2012 issue of The Artist’s Magazine, featuring the work of David Hettinger, McCrystle Wood, Sheldon Tapley, Garry Kaye, Jeannie McGuire and more.
Posted in Abstract, Acrylic, Animals, Articles, Blogs, Colored Pencil, Drawing, Flowers, Inspiration and Creativity, Medium, Mixed Media Medium, Mixed Media Subject, Oil, Other Medium, Pastel, Portrait / Figure, Still Life, Subject, The Artist’s Magazine, The Artist's Magazine Blog, Watercolor
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Doggies Galore | Dog Paintings by Leslie Shiels, Sally Muir and Dana Hawk
More portraits of man’s and woman’s best friend—by June 2012 featured artists, Leslie Shiels, Sally Muir, and Dana Hawk.
Posted in Acrylic, Animals, Articles, Medium, Oil, Subject, The Artist’s Magazine
Tagged Animals, Oil
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Photoshop | A Tool for Artist Garry Kaye
Artist Garry Kaye, who uses Photoshop to help him create large beyond-photorealistic, detailed landscapes in acrylic, says his challenge with Apple Tree (acrylic, 36×48) was to create depth when using predominant greens. “I attempted to do this,” he says, “by using warm greens in the foreground, offset by colors leaning to the cooler side for the background.”
Posted in Acrylic, Art Demos & Techniques, Art Materials & Tools, Articles, Landscapes / Seascapes / Cityscapes, Medium, Subject, The Artist’s Magazine
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Controlling the Light in an Urban Studio
Sheldon Tapley paints from natural light in his studio in the downtown area of Danville, Kentucky. Learn how he manages to control the light and adapt to an urban space.
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Mixed Media Artist Maya Brym | Building Layers for Collage
Using collage techniques to structure paintings layered with acrylic and oil, Maya Brym creates still lifes as spatial experiences that shift between two and three dimensions. The following is an excerpt from the feature article “Natural Synthesis” by Judith Fairly in the April 2012 issue of The Artist’s Magazine.
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Top 10 Winning Paintings From the 2012 Over 60 Art Competition
Congratulations to the winners of our Over 60 Art Competition. These artists and painters are joyfully obsessed now that they’re free to devote themselves to making art.
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The Artist’s Magazine April 2012 Online Table of Contents
The other side of Tom Root’s imagination; Marvin Mattelson’s commissioned portraits; acrylic artist Patti Brady’s studio; free lesson in intuitive abstraction and more.
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Acrylic Artist Competition
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