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October 20, 2015 by princigal_admin

What is it? Atmospheric perspective is a visual phenomenon that occurs when we view a landscape. A very simple way of understanding the phenomenon is through the phrase, "fading into the distance." When we view a landscape, the objects in the distance ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: atmospheric perspective, Bethanne Kinsella Cople, blue, Casey Childs, Colin Fraser, Douglas Fryer, Egg Tempera, exhibitions, fine art, JMW Turner, landscape, landscape painting, Leonardo da Vinci, oil painting, optical illusion, Painting, Renaissance, technique, Technique Tuesdays, Yuan Jiang

October 13, 2015 by princigal_admin

What is it? The technique we'll be looking at today is a fun one: broken color. This term refers to a technique where an artist will apply colors to a painting in small strokes, but does not blend them, so that they blend optically rather than ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: broken color, Claude Monet, Colin Fraser, color, color theory, Edgar Degas, Events, exhibitions, figurative painting, fine art, Impressionism, landscapes, live painting demonstration, oil painting, Painting, still life, technique, Technique Tuesdays, Vincent van Gogh

October 6, 2015 by princigal_admin

What is it? Last week, we took a look at oil paints and acrylic paints, but this week's topic is a painting medium that predates both of them--egg tempera. Egg tempera is an ancient type of paint that is made by mixing powdered dry pigments with egg ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: ancient art, Andrew Wyeth, Art, Colin Fraser, Egg Tempera, Egyptian art, Events, exhibitions, figurative painting, fine art, landscape, live painting, michelangelo, Painting, Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli, still life, technique, Technique Tuesdays

July 7, 2015 by princigal_admin

What is it? The concept of positive and negative space is a fairly simple one. The subject of a work of art occupies the positive space, while everything else is considered negative space. Nearly every piece of representational art contains positive ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: balance, Chinese art, Coles Phillips, Colin Fraser, composition, design, Edgar Degas, Francisco Goya, graphic design, Johannes Vermeer, Kevin Fitzgerald, laura E Pritchett, M. C. Escher, Mia Bergeron, negative space, positive space, Rene Magritte, technique, Technique Tuesdays, Valerio D'Ospina, Wang Hui

June 2, 2015 by princigal_admin

What is it? Pointillism is a painting technique that popped up in the late 1800's as an off-shoot of Impressionism. Essentially, pointillism uses small, distinct dots or strokes of different colors in a pattern to form an image. This technique relies ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: art history, blending, Camille Pissarro, Colin Fraser, color, Events, exhibition, fine art, GC Myers, Georges Seurat, Impressionism, landscape, Maximilien Luce, Mia Bergeron, oil painting, Painting, Paul Signac, pointillism, technique, Technique Tuesdays

August 9, 2014 by princigal_admin

We hope you're enjoying this new tradition of Studio Selfie Saturdays as much as we are! It's a treat to see the creativity with which our artists give us a peek of themselves in their work environment and with which they answer the questions in our mini ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: 10 Questions for the Artist, artist, Colin Fraser, Egg Tempera, self portrait, selfie, still life, Studio Selfie Saturday, StudioSelfieSaturday

August 25, 2013 by princigal_admin

There is no greater pleasure than seeing artwork from the gallery come to life in a collector's home. A great painting activates the four walls of a space and can complete a room. The right painting can instantly infuse a room with color and energy, add ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: art in situ, Colin Fraser, collectors, Geoffrey Johnson, Mia Bergeron, Paula Rubino, press

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