Category: Techniques
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 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 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 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 22, 2010 | In Techniques | Send feedback »
Techniques:
Do you lust for the airy and light appearance of a watercolour, but in pastel? You can achieve this effect very easily. Using white paper only, stroke with the broad side of your pastel stick across your paper (…
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