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ACEO Lilacs in Prismacolor Premier on white Stonehenge paper by Robert A. Sloan90

Prismacolor Realism, Colored Pencil Painting

ACEO Lilacs in Prismacolor Premier on white Stonehenge paper by Robert A. Sloan  ACEO Lilacs was a twenty hour production, not counting the time it took to take the photo reference and wait till the lilac...

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22 of 100 articles for my HubChallenge! Doing the big one!87

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...

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I fine tuned my artwork to a point that I got incredibly fast at painting84

The Lost Art of Painting on Windows

When I was a little girl I remember being fascinated by those artistic paintings on windows that seemed to appear overnight around Christmas time - one day there were only panes of glass then the next day...

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A good old Shropshire dairy's glass milk bottle, better than plastic to paint with black and white gouache.  80

Art, primary painting skills revealed.

Why all great painters draw? Look, look and look more. The basic ingredients for both drawing and painting are the same, both skills are firmly based in making marks that are representations of the...

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Apples in Blue Silk by Robert A. Sloan using Erengi Art Aspirer oil pastels on watercolor paper primed with Colourfix clear sanded pastel primer.79

Inexpensive, versatile oil pastels for sketching and fine art

Oil pastels are an underappreciated fine art medium and a gloriously frugal color sketch medium for pastels or oils or anything you want to do. This article describes both fine art and fun hobby art applications with some tips and techniques and useful links.

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Making Money With Art

Making money by selling artwork is one helluva fun. Have you been in this familiar situation? You're among a group of friends and the conversation turns to art. You feel out of place because some of your...

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A Review on Nipples, Penises, Pubic Hair or Art

CensorshipToday’s world is unique. In that it is an era grappled in the most serious form of controversial ironies and hypocritical censorship. We live in a world were foreplay and adult intercourse...

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Columbine, 4" x 6" watercolor on cold press watercolor paper by Robert A. Sloan. The finished painting for this step by step demonstration.77

How to Paint from Negative Space in Watercolor

Columbine, 4" x 6" watercolor on cold press watercolor paper by Robert A. Sloan. The finished painting for this step by step demonstration. This step by step demonstration can be done using my colors and...

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How Artists See - Value Scales to Shapes of an Apple

There are a couple of fundamental things that artists must learn in order for their drawings and paintings to look good.  Value Scale and Seeing Shapes are two very important fundamental skills to practice...

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8" x 10" Oil Pastel on Art Spectrum Colourfix, by Robert A. Sloan74

How to Create a Painterly Style

8" x 10" Oil Pastel on Art Spectrum Colourfix, by Robert A. Sloan Here's the definition of "Painterly" as of the American Heritage dictionary: 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter; artistic. ...

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