What is it?
Happy Tuesday! This week we're looking at a style of painting in which depth, roundness, changing values, and changing colors are depicted using separate, unblended brushstrokes. If that still doesn't sound very clear, no worries, let's ...
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What is it?
The topic of today's post is a medium that many folks (and certainly anyone who had a childhood art class!) are familiar with: watercolor. One of the very oldest types of paint, watercolor consists of pigments suspended in a water-soluble ...
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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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