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83How to Paint a Gift Portrait
Masai Man by Robert A. Sloan I'm a serious artist. I've been doing art ever since I was a little kid, when my family looked at my drawings and decided I was the next Picasso. (They didn't get it that I was...
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82How to Fill a Sketchbook In One Month
Blue Lake Scene, 8 1/2" x 11" in Ultramarine Deep Dark Shade Pan Pastel by Robert A. Sloan Because at the end of the month you will be a much better artist. Your drawings and sketches will be more lifelike, your shading smoother, your lines more...
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80How 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 orange glass paperweight and around two...
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77Best Gifts for Painters and Artists Part 2 - charcoal, conte and oil paint
What are the best gifts for painters and artists? At Les Trois Chenes Bed and Breakfast near Rochechouart, Limousin, France, we run painting holidays and art courses so we know just what an artist would love to receive for that special gift. Christmas, birthday, wedding anniversary or just to say 'I Love You'. Help is at hand for choosing a creative gift.
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76Drawing from Life Made Easier: A Lesson from Seurat
One of the wonderful things about drawing from life, or drawing from direct observation, is that you don't have to draw from a photo! But (you may ask) isn't drawing from a photo easier? The camera, we think, records with unerring accuracy. In...
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75Tower of Power: Will the Funk Ever End?
This article summarizes the musical background of R&B group Tower of Power. The author emphasizes the contributions of numerous musicians and singers since the band's inception in 1968.
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73Soft Pastels
Pastels are a popular artistic medium, and come in many different forms, from the hand-made artist-quality sets to the humble school chalk. Pastel art involves trapping the pigmented dust in textured paper,...
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73Travel, Uruguay,an exeptional country, small in size but a giant in beauty and wonder!!
Uruguay,an exeptional country, small in size but a giant in beauty and wonder.
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74Richeson Semi-Hard Pastels Product Review
A Winter Fantasy, 5" x 7" in Richeson semi-hard pastels on Fresh Grey Colourfix sanded pastel card, by Robert A. Sloan Richeson, a well established art supply manufacturer, recently came out with three new...
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71Solfeggio Lessons & Songwriting (part one)
Adrienn Antal “AdryA” One would ask who “AdryA” is. The true answer circles by a beautiful story after her birth in Budapest, Hungary by Lajos Antal and Éva (Dévényi) Antal. It was then that...
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