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Kim Flora Art Exhibition
Artist Kim Flora, who works with encaustic, is exhibiting works in “Winter Solace,” at the YWCA in Cincinnati, Ohio, through March 15, 2012. Joining her is Trina Feldhake, who creates ceramic baskets.
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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
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Mixed Media Art by Devorah Sperber
Devorah Sperber is an artist, although she doesn’t use oil, pastel, watercolor or any other traditional medium. Read about her unusual method of recreating famous artworks.
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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.
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Painting Composition Principle: Will Barnet and Symmetry
Whether working in the realist or abstract idiom, Will Barnet seeks balance; a shape is countered by another shape in a reflexive manner that is never formulaic because Barnet always complicates or alters the shape that answers the other. Thus, his pictures evince a symmetry that’s never static.
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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.’
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Scratchboard and Watercolor Illustration Demo by Beth Krommes
With scratchboard and watercolor, Beth Krommes creates award-winning illustrations that evoke vintage wood carvings. The following is a free excerpt from the article “Scratching the Surface” by Louise B. Hafesh in the November 2011 issue of The Artist’s Magazine.
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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.
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