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By admin on Jan 2, 2012 | In Techniques, Video | Send feedback »
I like watching video's like this if for no other reason than to see techniques other artists use to produce quick art.
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By admin on Aug 11, 2010 | In Working Clean, Pastels | Send feedback »
Pastel Artists.ca To protect your lungs, never blow at accumulated pastel dust. Take the work outside or hold it over a newspaper and tap the back to get rid of excess pigment. Wearing a mask helps protect again…
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By admin on Aug 3, 2010 | In Techniques, Pastels | Send feedback »
Pastel Artists.ca Working on a dark paper allows me to easily judge mid-tone values and true colours. I use the pastels in a variety of ways — scribbling, crosshatching, scumbling and feathering. Variety adds interest an…
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By admin on Jul 22, 2010 | In General Pointers, Pastels | 1 feedback »
Papers and Substrates
All pastelists have their favourite papers. Of course, an acid-free paper is a must to preserve the image and the stability of the pigment on the surface. As artists we owe that to our customers.…
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By admin on Jul 7, 2010 | In Working Clean, Pastels | Send feedback »
Working Clean Use push pins to attach baby wipes or a damp paper towel, kept in a small plastic bag, to the side of your easel. Reach in to clean your working hand or glove and the bag keeps the wipes from drying out…
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By admin on Jun 29, 2010 | In Techniques, Video, Clay | Send feedback »
The 2nd of the bowl videos.
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By admin on Jun 28, 2010 | In Techniques, Video, Clay | Send feedback »
This does not have to do with figure study but we are always looking for good tutorials.
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By admin on Jun 16, 2010 | In Techniques, Pastels | Send feedback »
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The use of fixatives on pastel paintings is a much-debated point among pastelists. Some artists feel that fixatives darken and dull the colors in the painting and therefore will not use them. Others fe…
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By admin on Jun 15, 2010 | In Techniques, Pastels | Send feedback »
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To achieve the airy and light appearance of a watercolour with pastel is fairly easy. Using white paper only, stroke with the broad side of your pastel stick across your paper (break it in half…
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By admin on Jun 11, 2010 | In General Pointers | Send feedback »
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First, you must decide whether to ship the work framed or unframed. This will help determine what type of packaging to use. The best way to reduce the cost of shipping is to select wrapping material wh…
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By admin on Jun 7, 2010 | In Display, Techniques | Send feedback »
Slides: Keep them organized by year in transparent slide pages in a looseleaf binder, labelled with pencil. If those pages are no longer available, hang onto your little boxes and have them well-labelled. Label the slides with a permanent marker, not t…
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By admin on Mar 31, 2010 | In Techniques | 1 feedback »
Sculpting Realistic Skin Texture:
Step One: Before you begin There is a reason that a smooth piece of clay is considered a step. Here is where you must choose which direction your skin texture will take. I'd like to point out that there is nothin…
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By admin on Mar 30, 2010 | In Techniques | Send feedback »
First, let’s start off with one of my sculptures. Now, this is obviously a Jack O’ Lantern design, but hopefully, there’s some other "layers" of emotion going on. Remember the movie "Shadow of the Vampire"? In it, Willem Dafoe…
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By admin on Mar 25, 2010 | In Techniques | Send feedback »
The Lure of Velour
It was love at first sight! Seeing and feeling the lush colours available in suede matboard were a sensuous experienceindeed. Putting the first strokes on it with extra soft pastels had me hooked!Yet pastel is not a medium I came to…
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By admin on Mar 24, 2010 | In General Pointers | Send feedback »
There is no "hard and soft" rule when it comes to pastels. So why do we misleadingly refer to them all as 'soft' pastels when it's so obvious that some are harder than others?
The one real difference is softer brands use less binder and t…
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