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Here is artist Ben Zoltak preparing a custom stretched canvas painting with gesso.81

How To Prepare A Painting With Gesso

Here is artist Ben Zoltak preparing a custom stretched canvas painting with gesso. You must prepare a canvas or any other painting surface first, before you begin to paint. If you don't an art historian will...

6 comments    painting paint canvas
Here I decided to make Buster's collar pink.74

How To Paint A Picture For Your Wall: Part 2

As the years go by I miss my dogs more and more. They were bulwarks of my youth, providing much joy and understanding that could not always be found in people my age. When I was young I was no social...

9 comments    advice how to dogs
A completed commission from artist/writer Ben Zoltak (all image rights retained by Ben Zoltak, contact for commercial use)87

How To Price Quote An Art Commission

When I meet someone from around the world, someone not from my home country of the USA and I tell them I am an artist they tend to ask a question that my countrymen don't often ask. Namely they ask, what is...

8 comments    business money art
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Raja Ravi Varma's Oil Paintings of Indian Women

Raja Ravi Varma was the famous Indian Oil Painter who lived in the Eighteenth Century. He ws born in Trvancore which is situated in kerala. He started proving his ability to canvas the beauties...

15 comments    pictures photos arts
The Little Dancer by Edgar Degas, Musee D'Orsay, Paris. Photograph by Bruin, coutesy of Flickr and Wiki Commons92

The Little Dancer and Ballet in Art - An impression of light, music and movement

She was just 14 when Degas immortalised her in Bronze. Now she stands posed for all time, her slight and boyish form, poised and ready to dance. And here we are, standing before her on a sunny June day in Paris, wondering who she was, and what her life became...

43 comments    paris ballet sketch
Mark Rothko, "#14," Oil on Canvas, 196077

Review: A Look at Two Abstract Paintings

Mark Rothko, "#14," Oil on Canvas, 1960 For as long as I can remember, among family members (none of which have an art school background), and certain friends, I've had to hide the fact that I not only like...

30 comments    arts design review
Paul Cezanne "Pyramid of Skulls"75

How Artist's See - Create A Great Composition

This information is good for any type of composition including painting, drawing and photography. Though, you will notice it is aimed toward painters, but feel free to apply these rules to whatever type of...

6 comments    advice how to education
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Oil Painting Brushes

As an artist, when I paint in oils, I have to say that I prefer to use the finest brushes. This is nothing to do with snobbery, in fact the majority of artists are often the poorest people you'll come across....

0 comments    oil painting escoda brushes
"The Militia Company of Frans Banning Cocq", by Rembrandt, 1642 (also known as "The Night Watch"77

How to Appreciate Rembrandt's Night Watch

"The Militia Company of Frans Banning Cocq", by Rembrandt, 1642 (also known as "The Night Watch" Two words: In person. If you try to appreciate Rembrandt's painting indirectly, by viewing a photo of it,...

7 comments    art photography painting
The colourful Umbrian Countryside74

Renaissance Paints - How they made pigments

If you look at any masterpieces of the great Renaissance painters, they have a quality that seems linked directly to the landscape. This would have something to do with how their pigments were made . Unlike...

5 comments    painting renaissance watercolour
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