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84How to Draw an Egg
I thought I'd kick this off with something a little wicked for those of you that enjoy my art lessons. The topic is so simple it's almost stupid, right? How to draw an egg? Come on, you just make this oval...
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83Inexpensive, versatile oil pastels for sketching and fine art
Oil pastels are an underappreciated fine art medium and a gloriously frugal color sketch medium for pastels or oils or anything you want to do. This article describes both fine art and fun hobby art applications with some tips and techniques and useful links.
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79How to Sketch People I: The Boater
"The Boater" 9B graphite pencil on Moleskine sketchbook, Robert A. Sloan If you've read some of my other art lesson Hubs, you might wonder if I ever draw people. I like doing cats, landscapes, other wildlife...
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81Why start with a big set of colored pencils?
Some colored pencils setsMany art courses and traditional art schools suggest that beginners need to stick with limited palettes. Often art teachers want students to use only monochrome or two-color...
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80How To Make And Woodburn A Garden Sign and Decorate It With Acrylic Paints
Make your custom sign Below is a suggested list of tools and materials you can use to make a garden sign. Keep in mind that in most creative ventures the subject development is not set in concrete. In other...
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78The Complete Guide to Drawing by Giovanni Civardi Reviewed
Complete Guide to Drawing by Giovanni Civardi cover with examples of Civardi's drawings. A Complete Guide to Drawing by Giovanni Civardi, published by Search Press, Ltd., ISBN 978-1-84448-206-1 is actually a...
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76Review: Colored Pencil Painting Bible by Alyona Nickelsen
Colored Pencil Painting Bible by Alyona Nickelsen, scan by Robert Sloan Alyona Nickelsen knows a lot of interesting tricks with Prismacolors. I've been using them since 1972 and I found tips in this book that...
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79Seven Tips for Sumi-E Painting
Docks on Spider Lake, MI - 1 painted in sumi-e ink with Chinese brushes on rice paper by Robert A. Sloan from a photo reference by Helen on WetCanvas.com The art of Sumi-E is Japanese ink painting. My first...
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77How to Create Five Minute Art
Freehand drawing is the basic skill that all other art skills grow from, including colored pencil realism. Recently I ran a Quick Draw contest on eBay. Artists, some of whom had been selling beautiful ACEOs...
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74Basic Elements of Cartooning
Cartooning encompasses many essential elements of successful drawings, but is typically employed in an overly simplified manner. Some of the simplest, most effective drawings we see or make are done by...
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