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    Human figure drawing, especially life drawing from a model, is one of the most rewarding ways of practicing art because it can enhance your abilities in ways that are both practical and inspirational. It's practical in that creating figure drawings develops skills that will serve you again and again
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  • Paint to Trick the Eye
    The best painters understand that they work to create an illusion. The sleight of hand that comes along with realist painting can be especially compelling when it hides in plain sight—when artists take on subjects that are almost diametrically opposed to the flat surface of their canvases and make
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  • Make Every Brushstroke Powerful
    Have you ever approached a painting as if each stroke would be your last? Practitioners of calligraphy approach their art something like this, and the results are fresh and spontaneous, not overworked. Calligraphy has a long and rich history in Asia, and it has made a powerful impact abroad, with its
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  • Take Your Painting Skills Abroad
    Breakthroughs in our artistic practices often come with a change—of venue, of process, or even from within our own creative mindsets. Workshops offer the opportunity to step outside the studio, and suddenly we can see and evaluate from a completely different vantage point.
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  • Paint Every Figure With the Power of a Portrait
    Painting the people and places one sees every day can be either a mind-numbing trial or an impetus for creativity that just happens to be homeward bound. For New Jersey-based artist Michael de Brito-who has spent the last several years painting family members and friends in familiar surroundings, such
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  • Find Your Unique Approach to an Established Subject Matter
    I've grown to appreciate floral paintings. Of course, flowers are nice to look at, and I recognize the technical skill needed to paint them, but I wasn't always certain of the appeal of the subject matter. The question of how an artist approaches a bouquet of roses or a pot of fuchsias in a unique
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  • Gain Artistic Momentum by Competing and Exhibiting
    Pivotal moments in my life have often-to take a line from Ernest Hemingway-come "gradually, then suddenly." Nothing appears to be on the horizon, but then a few things fall into place, then a few more, and suddenly I'm in a whole new situation. It's often the same for artists who begin
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  • Paint the Human Body in Action
    Alaska-born artist Steven Huston knows that when there's no mammoth sports arena or cheering crowds, an athlete on the field of play can easily turn into an artist's ideal model. Even without motion, an athletic figure still possesses an interesting pose, physical awareness, and conceptual power
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  • Fictitious Portraits Blur Photographic Reality With Artistic Choice
    I’m from a card-playing family, so when it comes to discussions about artists using reference photographs, I always think in terms of watching for a “tell.” Like in poker—where players’ subtle mannerisms can reveal whether they are bluffing—portraits created by closely
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  • Adaptability and Durability are Proven Aspects of Encaustic Painting
    After spending all day sitting at my desk, click-click-clicking away on my computer, I savor getting out and being active, especially if I’m learning a new activity or skill. It’s the difference between reading through the steps of a complicated, unfamiliar process and actually seeing it
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  • Workshops Raise the Bar for Artists
    Robert Johnson strikes the perfect balance between master artist and down-to-earth mentor, supporting his students while pushing them to create the best works that they can. At a recent three-day workshop sponsored by The Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia, Johnson led students through the stages
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  • New eBook Teaches Acrylic Painting in 7 Steps
    Paintings of the sheer peaks of the Alps or serpentine glimmer of the Hudson River showcase the awe-inspiring characteristics of the natural world. But there’s something equally compelling about depictions of interior spaces. Think of how bleak and bereft Edward Hopper’s bedroom scenes are
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  • Art of Fresco Relies on Drawing Ability
    “If the drawing is wrong, the fresco is wrong.” With that, master craftsman and fresco instructor Walter O’Neill began a fresco workshop that I attended a few weeks ago at the Morgan Library & Museum, in New York City. Fresco painting has become somewhat of a lost art over the centuries
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  • When Your Art Goes on the Road
    Gaining exposure and recognition for one’s work starts with putting finished pieces in the public and critical eye. This can mean participating in local community shows or full-fledged exhibitions, entering competitions, and hanging pieces in galleries. It is an exciting prospect, but it can also
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  • How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Painting from Photographs
    I’ve spent way too much time in murky classrooms looking at slides, slides, and more slides. I’m convinced that the entire academic field of art history would grind to a halt without projectors, carousels, and slides. But what is weird about looking at so many images is that I find myself
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  • Make Technology a Useful Tool in Your Creative Process
    One of the best conversations I’ve had about art wasn’t with an artist. It wasn’t with an art historian, curator, or gallery owner, either. It was with a mechanical engineer. We went from discussing his latest design project to the artfulness of historical blueprints to Leonardo’s
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  • Helping Our Pint-Size Artists
    A couple of years ago I wrote an article about an education program that introduced modern art to children in a museum setting. After seeing the artwork, the kids then had the opportunity to make their own pieces. In the workshop, they acted like successful artists—fearless, opinionated, and not
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  • Drawing Skills Can Bring New Life to Your Painting
    I’ve always thought of a painter’s drawings as his or her diary. A finished painting is the confident, public face shown to the world, but drawings read like journal entries, where you can see an artist’s preoccupations, struggles, moments of exploration, and sense of play.
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  • Take Advantage of Our Plein Air Expertise
    Kevin Macpherson is a renowned artist and instructor with 30 years of plein air painting experience. For newcomers, painting en plein air means literally, painting “in the open air,” and is the genre associated with painting outdoors. In 1996, Macpherson challenged himself to what I’d
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  • Free Tips and Techniques for Painting Oil Landscapes
    With landscape artist Chris McHenry's hard-won oil painting tips and techniques, you’ll start to understand how to create a realistic sense of contrast for objects in your paintings, establish depth and focus in a landscape painting with a balance of warm and cool colors, and more. Attending
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  • Taking Advantage of Free Instruction
    I recently joined a gym in my neighborhood, with the hopes of working off some of those extra holiday pounds that seem to wear out their welcome around this time every year. My schedule is pretty busy, so I try to streamline my visits, making a beeline
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  • The Importance of Getting Youth Involved in Art
    Last week I had the opportunity to get together with a handful of art-materials retailers from around the United States and Canada to discuss concerns about reaching the art-making world and to share what artists are purchasing and what materials they
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  • How Do You Improve Your Artwork?
    New Utrecht Avenue 2008, watercolor, 25 x 35. Private collection. I need personal time in the studio to reflect, journal, and work. I experiment, draw, play, and entangle myself in the nitty-gritty of working on my own craft. It is never enough time,
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  • Art Instruction in Our New Video Gallery
    Artists are continually looking for new sources of advice and inspiration, which is probably one of the main reasons you’re receiving this newsletter and visiting the Artist Daily website. A perfect example of artists’ desire to learn can
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  • 6 Tips on Using Color Mixtures
    The articles we publish in American Artist and our quarterly magazines repeat basic advice about one of the most challenging aspects of painting: selecting and mixing colors. Here’s a summary of those recommendations.
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  • How Tradition and Innovation Shape Art Today
    Steve Doherty talks about Weekend with the Masters, and the value of new technologies in the art education process.
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  • Drawing: Use Bread as an Eraser?
    Can you really use bread as an eraser? Find out the answer in this brief blog post about the history of erasing--and check out a new product from a Japanese manufacturer.
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  • Workshop Spring 2009
    The table of contents from the Spring 2009 issue of Workshop magazine.
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  • Drawing: How Are YOU Using Negative Space?
    An artist I interviewed recently, Lisa Dinhofer, said that being a good draftsman isn't enough. She said putting the emphasis on the objects in your scene is risky if it leads to forgetting that the negative space is where your piece is either going
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  • Drawing: Depicting Mother and Child
    This time of year puts the focus on family, and at the center of the family is the special relationship between mother and child. Thanks in part to the powerful patronage of the Roman Catholic Church, there are thousands of drawings of Mary and baby Jesus
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  • Clark Hulings' Path to an Art Career
    One of the greatest things about new American Artist online platform is that it allows for an almost immediate exchange of ideas and opinions between American Artist editors and readers. A perfect example of this is the recent debate that occurred as
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  • What Do You Think … About Filmed Art Instruction?
    Editor-in-Chief Steve Doherty talks about the value of art instruction videos, and asks readers for their recommendations.
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  • BACAA: Classical Training From Contemporary Masters
    The Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier, just outside of San Francisco, began with one woman’s dream to establish a school steeped in the traditions of the European ateliers of the past. Today the atelier is one of the most regarded classical contemporary
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  • Beginner Oil: Recommended Books for a Beginning Artists
    From the thousands of art-instruction books available, we offer a list of those that have proven beneficial to new artists. by Naomi Ekperigin There are many options available for artists wishing to improve their skills. However, the price and time commitment
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