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Columbine, 4" x 6" watercolor on cold press watercolor paper by Robert A. Sloan. The finished painting for this step by step demonstration.83

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...

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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...

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Portrait of Sascha, 3" x 4" 9B graphite pencil on Moleskine journal paper by Robert A. Sloan77

How to Sketch People II: Child's Face

Portrait of Sascha, 3" x 4" 9B graphite pencil on Moleskine journal paper by Robert A. Sloan This is the third time I've drawn Sascha from this photo reference. I took it on a sunny afternoon while we lived...

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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.82

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...

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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.80

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...

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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...

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Apples in Blue Silk by Robert A. Sloan using Erengi Art Aspirer oil pastels on watercolor paper primed with Colourfix clear sanded pastel primer.78

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.

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Silver pillbox with red glass gem in Derwent Graphitint tinted graphite pencils by Robert A. Sloan85

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...

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8" x 10" Oil Pastel on Art Spectrum Colourfix, by Robert A. Sloan82

How to Create a Painterly Style

8" x 10" Oil Pastel on Art Spectrum Colourfix, by Robert A. Sloan Here's the definition of "Painterly" as of the American Heritage dictionary: 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter; artistic. ...

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Christmas Decorations: How To Make Mini-Christmas Trees

Make your own Christmas decoration by following these simple, fun, and easy-to-do steps. Empty tissue paper roll Green and white thin cartolinas Brown art paper Small pieces of red artpaper ...

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