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Beautiful But Deadly 3 - TV and Movie Actresses Who Could Hurt You

I do a fairly popular female MMA blog, and one day I was kinda at a loss for news and I started looking around at female martial arts stars on TV and in the movies. Of course I figured a lot of them had no...

8 comments    hubchallenge martial arts karate
Cape Cod Poppies, drawn in Derwent AquaTone woodless watercolor pencils on paper, dry, by Robert A. Sloan. Photo reference from WetCanvas.com August Colored Pencils Challenge posted by draymond for the August 2009 Colored Pencil Challenge.79

How to Draw Rocks in Colored Pencils

Cape Cod Poppies, drawn in Derwent AquaTone woodless watercolor pencils on paper, dry, by Robert A. Sloan. Photo reference from WetCanvas.com August Colored Pencils Challenge posted by draymond for the August...

11 comments    how to fun shadows
Siamese cat profile, 9B graphite pencil (super soft) on paper by Robert A. Sloan. The finished demo drawing. Model is Aristophenes MRC Sloan, the cat who owns the author.85

How to Draw a Siamese Cat Profile

Siamese cat profile, 9B graphite pencil (super soft) on paper by Robert A. Sloan. The finished demo drawing. Model is Aristophenes MRC Sloan, the cat who owns the author. When you draw a cat from life, as I...

6 comments    how to cat how to draw
Cumulus clouds in Derwent AquaTone watercolor pencils on cold press/Not surface watercolor paper, 4" x 6", Robert A. Sloan, photo reference by oldrockchick on WetCanvas.com82

How to Draw Cumulus Clouds

Cumulus clouds in Derwent AquaTone watercolor pencils on cold press/Not surface watercolor paper, 4" x 6", Robert A. Sloan, photo reference by oldrockchick on WetCanvas.com Cumulus clouds are the puffy white...

2 comments    how to fun arts
Columbine, 4" x 6" watercolor on cold press watercolor paper by Robert A. Sloan. The finished painting for this step by step demonstration.82

How to Paint from Negative Space in Watercolor

Columbine, 4" x 6" watercolor on cold press watercolor paper by Robert A. Sloan. The finished painting for this step by step demonstration. This step by step demonstration can be done using my colors and...

10 comments    how to tutorial watercolor
Apples in Blue Silk by Robert A. Sloan using Erengi Art Aspirer oil pastels on watercolor paper primed with Colourfix clear sanded pastel primer.81

Inexpensive, 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.

8 comments    arts painting drawing
Glass and Birds Page in my Moleskine watercolor journal by Robert A. Sloan78

How to Draw Shading with Hatching and Crosshatching

Glass and Birds Page in my Moleskine watercolor journal by Robert A. Sloan In my Glass and Birds Page, above, I used hatching and crosshatching with fine point colored pens to create values and shapes in an...

9 comments    how to arts how to draw
Silver pillbox with red glass gem in Derwent Graphitint tinted graphite pencils by Robert A. Sloan82

How 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...

13 comments    how to fun arts
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Keep Music Education in Our Schools

Over the past 10 years or so, many school programs have been cut to reduce budgets and save money. Those hardest hit are physical education, art and music classes. The tragedy of these curriculum adjustments...

32 comments    education children music
"The Boater" 9B graphite pencil on Moleskine sketchbook, Robert A. Sloan77

How 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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