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845 Tips for Using Derwent Graphitints Pencils
Eggplant on the Vine by Robert A. Sloan, from a photo reference in the Reference Image Library on WetCanvas.com The ancient UK company Derwent, which used to be called Rexel Cumberland and has been around for...
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82Pochade Boxes - Your Portable Art Studio
Pochade box DIY: Pochade is French for Quick Sketch - if you make one of these handy boxes you will be able to sketch on location in your choice of media - from watercolor to pastel to oil paint!
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79How to Paint En Plein Air (Outdoors)
I didn't paint this En Plein Air. But if I lived near the ocean, I would have. "Waves on Rocks" by Robert A. Sloan  Especially if you are the kind of person who gets bored with exercise for its own sake,...
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79Painting with Derwent Aquatone Watercolor Pencils
Still rolling on my 100 Hubs Challenge... can I catch up for the three days I missed by starting late? Â Derwent is a very wicked British pencil company, formerly called Rexel Cumberland, which has plotted...
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72Daily Painting or Drawing
Nothing improves your art the way practice does. If you draw the same thing a dozen times, you will know that subject the way you know the face of a loved one. Maybe better if you're not a portrait artist. ...
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63Painting Outside and in the Street
I have a portable easel which contains a drawer to hold paints and brushes. I paint in oil on canvas. Oil paints really are considerably better than acryllics, giving far richer colours, and allowing much...
51A Series of Women Artists: Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) paintedprimarily her family and immediate environment. She was also one of the first to join the Impressionists. Both Morisot and her sister Edma were encouraged by family to paint...
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70Five Tips for Street Artists
Clouds -- a pastel painting on sanded Wallis pastel paper by Robert A. Sloan. For doing street art, you need to set up with decent art supplies. Most of this section is geared toward using pastels on paper,...
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59California Plein Air Art
California Plein Air art is a visual therapy to me. Viewing a piece of this impressionistic art produces physiological benefits that are conducive to stress reduction. What is Plein Air art?- Just stroll...
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