Let’s say you’ve decided to start a card business and you’ve been working on designs for six weeks. Your friends love them. Your mom loves them. Your coworkers love them. You think they’ll be hot sellers
Year: 2010
Have you ever been at a party and someone said, “I didn’t know you were an artist. What do you do?” Or someone at the park says, “I love art. I have a lot hanging in my home. What is yours like?”
First off, Happy Valentine’s Day! To celebrate, we’ve got a special gift for you over at foliotwist.com. :) Monday in...
If you’re an established artist and you feel pretty comfortable with your medium, its probably only a matter of time until you’ve had some inquiries about teaching an art class or art workshop
Once your art blog up and running, it’s important to keep visitors interested and coming back. One great way to do that is add Feedburner's RSS Email Subscription option to your blog. Here's how to do it
If you like food (and who doesn’t?) then stick around for a mouth-watering peek at Mary Ellen Johnson’s delectable oil paintings. Her larger than life images truly expose the “finer details” of eating.
One common misconception about artists is that we are able to envision things perfectly in our imagination. People assume that we instinctively know what patterns and textures go together, or can come up with effective colour combinations off the top of our heads.
When you want to draw an object with realistic volume, or mass, it helps to be able to “see” the underlying shapes that make up that object. These aren’t complicated geometric patterns - basically, you’re just looking for shapes like circles
Monday in Video Tutorials – Tomorrow, David Kitler demonstrates how seeing the basic shapes within objects (like circles, triangles, and...
Tina L. Scott has been selling photographs since 1999. Aside from taking the everyday portrait, she also turns photographs of her clients into stunning photo collages. Here are some of the questions I asked about her business, pricing, and art.
Believe it or not, watercolour painting can be “extreme” under certain circumstances - for me, extreme watercolour painting must be done on location, in a foreign country, in a place that you can only reach by taxi
Helene Havard is a photographer and digital artist who attempts to portray meaningful images beyond what her camera alone can capture. She specializes in shooting still photography on movie sets and streets, and enjoys the craft of photo manipulation.