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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.
Posted in Abstract, Acrylic, Articles, Artist Interviews & Profiles, Cityscapes, Colored Pencil, Drawing, Flowers, Landscapes, Medium, Mixed Media Medium, Oil, Other Medium, Pastel, Portrait / Figure, Still Life, Subject, The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor
Tagged Colored Pencil, Oil
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Drawing for the Absolute Beginner
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.
Posted in Abstract, Acrylic, Art Demos & Techniques, Articles, Artist Interviews & Profiles, Drawing, Featured Artist Galleries, Inspiration and Creativity, Medium, Mixed Media Medium, Oil, Other Subject, Pastel, Portrait / Figure, Still Life, Subject, The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor
Tagged Acrylic, Art Business
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Top 10 Paintings from The Artist’s Magazine’s 2011 Over 60 Art Competition
Ranging in age from 61 to 83 the winners of our Over 60 Art Competition share their works. Read their stories in the March 2011 issue of The Artist’s Magazine.
Posted in Acrylic, Animals, Articles, Artist Interviews & Profiles, Colored Pencil, Drawing, Landscapes, Medium, Mixed Media Medium, Oil, Other Medium, Other Subject, Pastel, Portrait / Figure, Still Life, Subject, The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor
Tagged Animals, Landscapes
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Everything Must Go!
All hyperbole aside, we really are having the Warehouse Sale of the Season, today through Dec. 23: discounts up to 80%, no coupon necessary.
Posted in Blogs, Composition, Drawing, Holiday Gift Guides, Medium, Mixed Media Subject, Other Medium, Pastel, Shop, Subject, The Pastel Journal Blog
Tagged Drawing, Inspiration and Creativity
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Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
Influential art is seen through a new lens in ‘Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.’
Posted in Blogs, Drawing, Medium, Oil, Other Medium, Other Subject, Pastel, Portrait / Figure, Subject, The Artist's Magazine Blog, Watercolor
Tagged Inspiration and Creativity, Other Subject
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Gift Guide, 5 Gifts for Beginning Artists
Want to encourage the budding artist in your life? Here are some suggestions for gifts to stoke their creative sparks. 1. Keys to Drawing, by Bert Dodson. One of the most popular …
Posted in Acrylic, Drawing, Holiday Gift Guides, Jen's North Light Picks, Other Subject
Tagged Drawing, Other Subject
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Painting Tips | Roses
While “old time is still a-flying,” five artists portray the rose as ephemeral subject and enduring symbol—and make it seem new. The following is a free excerpt from the article “Gather Ye Rosebuds” by Maureen Bloomfield, in the November 2011 issue of The Artist’s Magazine.
Posted in Acrylic, Art Demos & Techniques, Articles, Colored Pencil, Drawing, Flowers, Medium, Mixed Media Medium, Oil, Other Medium, Pastel, Still Life, Subject, The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor
Tagged Flowers, Still Life
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Drawing Lesson | How to Draw an Ellipse
Posted in Art Demos & Techniques, Articles, Drawing, Medium, Still Life, Subject, The Artist’s Magazine
Tagged Drawing, Still Life
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Draw a Street Scene With One-Point Perspective
Around Town In this lesson, Grant Fuller teaches how to draw a Street Scene in One-Point Perspective from Start Sketching and Drawing Now. This will be a one-point perspective drawing from the street level with a single vanishing point. Materials …
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Tagged Cityscapes, Drawing
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