What is it?
This week's Technique Tuesday subject is not a new concept for anyone (particularly in today's "selfie" filled world!). But not only is the self-portrait is an important exercise for an artist to undertake, it is also significant to view as ...
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Welcome back to Technique Tuesday! Here's the last part of that series looking at what artists use for reference (we've already looked at painting from photographs and from the imagination). Today's post will be a bit different, as it's a guest post ...
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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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What is it?
A pentimento (the plural is "pentimenti") is an alteration in an artwork that becomes apparent by the marks and traces left behind from the artist's original strokes. Although it is derived from the (you guessed it!) Italian word meaning ...
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Welcome back to Technique Tuesday! Today's post is going to look at a technique that we all saw in action at Friday night's fantastic live painting demo with Teresa Oaxaca. If you missed it, be sure to keep an eye out for when we upload the photos and ...
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What is it?
If you've ever amused yourself by holding up your thumb and noticing how someone across the room appears to be tiny and thumb-sized next to it, you're well on your way to understanding the sight-size method of painting and sculpting. ...
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What is it?
Continuing our mini-series on different reference methods artists use, today we'll be looking at painting from the imagination. Nearly everyone who has ever had an interest in art had at some point created an artwork from imagination or ...
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Happy Tuesday! Today's post is part one of a mini-series of posts looking at the different methods artists use for reference when they're working on a painting. Essentially, there are 5 ways an artist might paint:
1. From life (this applies to both ...
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Remember the Technique Tuesday post where we took a look at chiaroscuro? Today's post is going to take a look at a very cool technique, closely related to chiaroscuro: tenebrism.
What is it?
Tenebrism, like chiaroscuro, is all about the use of ...
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What is it?
Today's Technique Tuesday takes a look "behind the scenes" at a handy artist's tool known as the mahl stick (sometimes spelled mahlstick or maulstick). A mahl stick typically looks something like this:
This kind of mahl stick is held in ...
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