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81How 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...
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74How 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...
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87How 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...
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77Raja 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...
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92The 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...
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77Review: 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...
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75How 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...
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74Oil 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....
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77How 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,...
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74Renaissance 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...
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