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    7 YouTube Art Channels that EVERY Artist will Enjoy

    Mixed-media birds by Kellie Day

    How to Paint Simple Mixed-media Birds

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    Unleash your Creativity (Draw Anywhere!) with CLEAR Dry Erase Paint

    Need a Better Way to Take Photos of Your Art? Try a Pop-up Photography Studio!

    Introducing the Highly-Customizable Artist Cargo Sketchbook Organizer!

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Year: 2010

Weekly Preview

This Week: 10/24 through 10/30

Monday in Video Tutorials – Tomorrow I’ll be posting a quick little video clip on painting fur, by watercolor painter...
Art Marketing Tips

Marketing Your Art Takes Time (The Rule of Seven Explains Why)

Most artists realize they need more exposure for their art if they want more sales. So they begin to promote...
Artist Interviews

Interview With Stephanie Corfee, Freelance Artist and Designer

Stephanie Corfee had a successful career creating “dry” yet beautiful designs for banks, builders and restaurants; but despite it being a living, she always longed to do more with her art
Oil Paintings

Diane Hoeptner: Poetic Floral Paintings

Poetry is the art of rhythmical composition - written or spoken - which explores beautiful, imaginative, and elevated thoughts. I think this also describes the lovely floral oil paintings of Diane Hoeptner.
Motivation

How to Tap into Your Creative Genius

Let me ask you a question. What put you on the path of creating? I’d bet that once upon a time you created something of significance. It might have been a drawing, painting, a photograph or some handmade jewelry. Whatever it was, it was good!
Video Tutorials

VIDEO: How to Paint Flowers with Watercolors (Wet-into-wet Technique)

In today’s video, watercolor painter Barbara Nechis demonstrates how to paint flowers using a wet-into-wet method. As you’ll see in the clip below, she starts by thoroughly (yet carefully) re-wetting her paper
Weekly Preview

This Week: 10/17 through 10/23

Monday in Video Tutorials – Tomorrow, Barbara Nechis will demonstrate some of the ways you can use watercolors (and lots...
GIMP Help

How to Use GIMP to Remove Camera Lens Distortion From Your Images

Taking good pictures of your artwork can be quite challenging. Even if you've gotten a handle on basic photography techniques, you can't always avoid things like lens distortion. Here's how to fix lens distortion in just a few minutes using GIMP
Art Marketing Tips

How to Create a Blogging Schedule that Works for You

It takes a lot of work to attract visitors to your art blog, but only a few weeks of not posting to lose them forever. That's why if you’re hoping to use your blog to increase your art sales or make connections, it’s important that you keep a regular posting schedule
Oil Paintings

Robin Mitchell: Committed to Art

There are many people that enjoy creating, but we all do it at different levels of commitment. Robin Mitchell is one artist truly devoted to creating beautiful oil paintings - on a daily basis
Motivation

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Artists

I believe that there are seven habits, or traits, which artists need in order to become highly effective and successful. Let's start with the most important one: being passionate about your art
Video Tutorials

VIDEO: How to Paint a Distant Figure

Painting a distant figure inside of a landscape (or any scene) is an entirely different task than painting a portrait. Not only is the person much smaller, making it harder to add details, but the focus of the painting
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