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Daily tips for painters
Make Your Paintings Sing: Add Near Music
Portrait of Moerai Matuanui,by Kehinde Wiley In workshops F,G, and H in the Virtual Art Academy Apprentice Program we go into some detail on how to create Near Music in your painting. This is an approach to using...
The 1 Critical Reason Your Art Is In A Rut – How To Improve Your Painting Skills
Introduction If your painting is stuck in a rut here are some suggestions for you to get out of it and start seeing your paintings improve. How To Improve Your Painting Skills If your painting is stuck in a rut, it is...
Using Thick Oil Paint to Enhance Light Areas
Cat. No. 1126 Snow Falls in Pianello – 23cm x 30.5cm – Oil on Board When using oils, paint your darks using thin oil paint and your lights using thick oil paint (referred to as “impasto”). This enhances the...
Less Is More: Suggesting Details Makes Your Painting Stronger
Suggestion is much more powerful than detailed rendering. More sophisticated paintings suggest detail without actually rendering it. This increases the viewer’s involvement and interest in the painting by making viewers...
How To Paint Water So It Doesn’t Look Like A Wall
When you are painting a body of water there is one thing that most beginners miss. The end result is a lake or ocean that just doesn’t look right. It looks more like a vertical wall than a flat body of water. The...
5 Reasons Why You Need to Varnish Your Oil Painting
This article talks about how to varnish an oil painting and why you should do it. Why do you varnish oil paintings? If you want to protect your paintings it is a good idea to varnish them. Varnish protects the painting...
How to keep your oil paints from drying out
Want some valuable tips on how to save money on paint? and how to cut down on all that weight you have to carry when painting plein air? Then read this article … When I go out plein air painting, I don’t...
A Guide to Painting Competitions
This is a guide to the best competitions to give you a kick start in your painting career. Why Enter A Painting Competition? One of the best ways of getting you, and your work, noticed is to enter a painting competition...
The 7 Habits of Successful Artists
An interesting presentation given by Andrew Price called: “The 7 habits of highly effective artists”. The subject, inspired by the popular book of Steven Covey: “The 7 habits of highly effective people”, shows how...