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When you think about it, you probably have a personal symbolism—objects or colors or landscape features that hold special meaning for you. These ideas can develop from our personal experiences, our culture, or books we've read. In the comic book realm, straightforward symbolism is expected...
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Ever wondered where Da Vinci found the time to create all his masterpieces? Alongside his fine art painting he managed to dabble as a scientist, geologist, architect, mathematician, engineer, and anatomist with a bit of aeronautical design thrown in for good measure! So how can we adopt a little bit...
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The winning drawings have been selected in the Shades of Gray competition and this weekend winners were notified via e-mail. We would like to extend a great thanks to everyone who entered their drawings--we received hundreds of strong entries, and it was extremely exciting, but difficult, to choose just...
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I suggested in my previous blog that the difference between an excellent draftsperson versed in anatomy, perspective, elements of drawing and all the other disciplines needed to produce a realistic, believable figure drawing and an artist is that the latter uses the realistic, believable figure drawing...
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I have tried hard the past few years--with mixed success--to avoid answering the question, "How are you doing?" with the response "Really busy." Some blame our cultural "time shortage" on the clock, progress, and our obsession with "now." But the artist's studio...
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How does brush sizing work and where do you start? Have you every ordered some new brushes online, feeling pretty confident they'll be the perfect size for your latest oil on canvas creation? After all you spent all afternoon researching them. Only to then be bitterly disappointed when the painting...
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Uh, I think I may have stumbled into an artist's dream! The Artist's Network Annual Holiday Sweepstakes is going on right now, offering awesome art prizes from the best painting and drawing product makers and service providers around. Rosemary & Co. brushes? Yes! Strathmore surfaces? Yes...
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How to let go of small brush addiction so your paintings can move on to become more gestural If you lost all of your brushes, which one would you miss the most? For me, it's a 12 year old Filbert bristle brush that has lost its shape, has unruly hairs, and is caked in paint. In other words, it's...
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Our best efforts are spent on timeless principles before specific techniques. -- Juliette Aristides, Lessons in Classical Drawing Juliette Aristides, artist and author. I'm Juliette Aristides, an artist, educator, and author based in Seattle, Washington. I have joined on at Artist Daily as a blogger...
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Greetings all! I'm making my way out of a food-induced coma and spending quality time in front of my computer today. If you are on the same page, you will most definitely be interested in knowing about all the great deals that are happening today--Cyber Monday--at the Artist Daily store for our Bargains...
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Figuring out how to draw people is often a matter of breaking the body down into geometric shapes. When it comes to drawing people--specifically faces--you have to think of the sphere and the ovoid. Now, I'm not really a fan of looking at drawings of shapes. Booooooring. Instead, I study this concept...
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Okay, I'll admit that skull reading and phrenology sound a little silly to me. Trying to get a sense of a person from the hollows and grooves on their skull? Not buying it. But I do know that "reading" the skull as an artist is key when it comes to learning how to draw a human head for...
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No need to buy a holiday card from the card shop or grocery store when you are as capable with paint and pencil, collage and design, as all of us at Artist Daily. This year, help us ring in the holiday season by participating in our Move Over Hallmark! Holiday Card Contest . Early Evening, Union Square...
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I spend most of my time, as you well know, glued to my chair and on my computer on Artist Daily or searching artist websites and every art blog and art forum I can find. But that is when I am researching. But when it comes to developing my own artistic practice and learning as a student, I know that...
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Shades of Gray Competition Results to Be Announced Next Month! It Kinda Draws the Eye In by Matt Tucker, 2011, graphite and white charcoal, 7½ x 14. Collection the artist. Finalist in Drawing's 2011 competition. Hello Artist Daily! This is just a quick note to say that judging for the Shades...