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How to draw with chalk pastels

If you're looking to add a new medium to your drawing toolbox, why not try chalk pastels? Here is a guide to get you started using this awesome medium!

4 comments    art painting learn
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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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Sping/Summer 2012 Fashion Clothing Trends: Top 10!

The season's top 10 trends that will have anyone looking like a fashion forward DIVA!

0 comments    travel fashion style
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Painting with Pan Pastels

22 of 100 articles for my HubChallenge! Doing the big one! Pastelists using soft pastels have long had to concern themselves with breathing dust that contains toxic pigments. Some of the best colors available are also pretty dangerous for long term...

7 comments    hubchallenge painting pastels
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Dressing to compliment your body

When it comes to clothes, finding something you like and trying it on, to discover that it doesn't look any good on you...Well it can be heartbreaking sometimes, and can take a massive blow to your self-esteem. You can avoid this by identifying what...

2 comments    advice how to fashion
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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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How To Draw Using Pastels

 On a recent trip to the beach I found a scallop shell half buried in the sand.  something about the simplicity of the image made me want to draw it, so I took a quick snapshot for reference later.  The only problem, was how to draw the sand, in...

17 comments    how to sand shell
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Oil Painting Lessons- Paint the Self Portrait

You are your best model. You are always on time and always accessible when you are ready to paint. You don't have to dress up for yourself and you are not responsible for sharing your painting practice with anyone else. These are some of the reasons...

22 comments    how to painting paint
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Kid's Art Project - Free-Fall Foreshortening

Foreshortening is one of the most challenging things to learn as an artist.  This project makes learning immediate, fun and easy!  One thing I teach my adult drawing students is that when a finger is...

0 comments    drawing hub challenge draw body
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How To Make A Sea Shell Painting

if you like to spend your vacations at the ocean, chances are you have collected a few seashells, driftwood, etc. If so, you may want an easy, attractive way to display them, while updating your decor at the...

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