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How 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...

28 comments    fun how art
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Best 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.

6 comments    christmas gifts birthday gifts
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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 orange glass paperweight and around two...

13 comments    how to arts how to draw
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Tower 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.

13 comments    music arts rock and roll
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Travel, 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.

3 comments    life business vacation
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How 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...

3 comments    shopping arts art
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The Moth (1)

A Luna Moth struggles to get closer to a candle in the window.

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Solfeggio 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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There was a Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim(2)

Najalla, a Muslim girl from Iran but whose family had ties in India. She was in our Biology for science major’s class also, in addition to her brother Anwar.

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Drawing 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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