Year: 2010

Video Tutorials

VIDEO: How to Paint Eyes

In the following video, Craig Nelson demonstrates his own step-by-step methods for painting eyes, starting with the whites of the eyes in shadow, then moving on to the lash line, eyebrows, and folds of the upper eyelids before ever putting any color in the iris.

Selling Art Online

Why Boundless Gallery Closed Down

Today is a sad day for the online art community, as a well-known internet art gallery is shutting its doors for good. BoundlessGallery.com, a website which has been connecting buyers and sellers of fine art since 2003, now displays a simple home page with this message:

This Week: 2/28 through 3/6

Monday in Selling Art Online – Big news, folks. . . In a truly sad turn of events, BoundlessGallery.com, a...

4 Ways to Jump Start Your Art Career!

Are you an artistic person who loved to draw as a kid, or took art classes in college, but was discouraged from pursuing art at as a serious profession? Maybe you’re a struggling artist frustrated with working a “real” job, or a busy parent with no time to create.

Art Marketing Tips

How To Set Up StatCounter On an Art Blog

Knowing who visits your art blog and what they do once they’re ON your blog can be extremely beneficial. A good hit counter will not only tell you how many visitors you have, but where they go once they arrive.

Acrylic Paintings

Michelle Hinz: Charming Tactile Paintings

All too often, paintings are only visual. . . Michelle Hinz takes a different route by making hers as tactile...

General Art Advice

10 Steps to Start a Successful Art Business

My personal philosophy for building a long term, successful career as an artist combines three things: a little business planning, a whole lot of marketing, and most importantly, the ability to create work that resonates with people

Video Tutorials

VIDEO: How to Create Sharp Lines and Fine Details in Watercolor Using a Magic Eraser

In today's video tutorial, John Salminen shares a great little trick for creating sharp, crisp details in watercolors. All you need is a roll of regular masking tape and a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser

This Week: 2/21 through 2/27

Monday in Video Tutorials – John Salminen demonstrates how to use a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser to lift watercolor paint...

The Reflective Statement: Your Path to Artistic Enlightenment!

It’s extremely important to be self-aware as an artist. We should always be thinking about our processes, our decisions, our...

Artist Interviews

Interview With Manuela Valenti, Professional Oil Painter

Abstract and still life oil painter, Manuela Valenti, has been selling her art since the age of seven. Having come by her artistic talents naturally, Valenti’s mother saw an opportunity to nurture her daughter’s talent and took full advantage of it.

Acrylic Paintings

Timur Tsaku: The Art of Visual Mystery

We all enjoy a good mystery, don’t we? Well, if today’s featured artist, Timur Tsaku, were a writer he would probably write mysteries. . . instead, as a painter, he puts a feeling of mystery into his artwork

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