Artist's Palette

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Using my selected photograph as reference, I do some small thumbnail sketches to work out a composition and decide on a focal area. I then prepare the canvas with a red underpainting (warm red and a touch of raw umber). In this case I have used acryl

ImagineFX

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LOCATION: Poland MEDIA: Oil paint WEB: www.agnieszkawencka.pl “When creating a picture I initially follow some generalised impressions, but the majority is created in the course of the painting process,” reveals Agnieszka. “An innocent face and a cal

Southwest Art

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WOMEN ARTISTS of the West heads to Mary Williams Fine Arts in Boulder, CO, this month for its 49th annual national juried exhibition. In a nod to the venue’s Rocky Mountain environs, the group has named its latest show Mountain Aire, but the title—wi

Southwest Art

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IN A LITTLE less than a decade, Elsa Sroka’s fanciful bovine paintings have captured the hearts and imaginations of a throng of admirers across the country. Eschewing traditional portrayals of cows, Sroka places her subjects in all sorts of whimsical

ArtAsiaPacific

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DEATH AND DREAMS Best known for his psychedelic collages channeling 1960s pop culture, Japanese artist and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo has dedicated himself to a new medium since renouncing commercial work in the 1980s. The pieces the octogenaria

Creative Artist

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As a teenager I loved painting and did a lot of it. I was encouraged by others and earned money from it. Selling artwork supported my teenage fashion habit and this was naturally a great motivator. I even won art prizes and had my work displayed in P

Southwest Art

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FOR ARTIST Patrick Lee, painting is an ongoing journey into new territory, with times of clarity and moments of uncertainty; in effect, it’s a continual process of growth and discovery. He calls it conscious incompetence. “That’s a perfect place to b

Southwest Art

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IN THE MIDDLE of September, I spent a long weekend high up in the Colorado mountains. After a scorching summer of record-setting heat, we’d just had an equally record-setting freak snowstorm, and that meant the mornings were downright cold up at 10,0

Watercolor Artist

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Hillkurtz finds teaching workshops especially enriching and rewarding. “I love teaching what I’ve discovered about painting and sketching,” he says. “My goal is to help make my students better painters. I want them to take what I’m teaching and make

Artist's Back to Basics

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Faye McBryde Art in one form or another has always been a part of my life. During my school years in Melbourne I loved doing projects that involved a lot of drawing and maps. I think most of my marks came from the ability to have good looking books a

Artist Profile

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IN 1996, YOU COMPLETED A BACHELOR OF FINE ART from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Would you have ever dreamed that twenty four years later, your painting, Michael Buxton Portrait (2012) would be hanging on the walls of the gallery next

The Paris Review

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Leonora Carrington’s work unfurls like a dream, both familiar and not. As in her sui generis short stories, mysterious human-animal hybrids populate the fantastical landscapes of her paintings, speaking in riddles, partaking in oblique ceremonies, ea

Artists Magazine

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• Know what you hope to learn from copying a masterwork. The goal isn’t to make a forgery but to reverse-engineer the master’s thought process. It’s not as much about the painting as it is about understanding the artist’s approach. • Avoid copying t

Artist's Back to Basics

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with Scott Mcdougall I’ve travelled extensively, pursuing subject matter to capture and translate onto canvas. I’ve covered thousands of kilometres on foot and have slogged my way through the Barrios of Spain, the medinas of Morocco and across the pr

Artists Magazine

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there was a time when I thought art was simply about putting paint on canvas or like surfaces. Art schools taught little more than that, and all the great masters were painters. Who was I to argue? I got my start in painting with watercolor, quite en

Southwest Art

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BRIMMING WITH sumptuous texture and color, the acrylic paintings of wildlife artist Vickie McMillan-Hayes appear realistic from afar. Up close, however, viewers see impasto and even areas of abstraction in her impressionistic portrayals of flora and

Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

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With ferocious determination, Catron Wallace pounces on a canvas. Timidity doesn’t enter her thinking. Her body’s movement is revealed in lines that rise like airy ribbons above layers of acrylic paint. This self-taught painter imbues her art with th

Art & Antiques

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ON JANUARY 9, Jerald Melberg Gallery opens “Katherine Boxall: Intelligent Abstraction.” This is the Charlotte, N.C.-based gallery’s first solo presentation of Boxall’s work. The paintings in the show, all recent, are large in scale, and incorporate a

Home

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Luka du Plessis of Despatch writes According to my parents, this painting is an original work by A.L. Grace. Frame excluded, it measures 500 x 360mm but other than that I have no information on it. Is it valuable? Kayleen Wrigley of Walker Scott Ar

Coast

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• Take a look at Lisa’s paintings at lisamcdonaldart.com. Prices for original wave oil paintings, 75cm x 75cm, from £950. The paintings are mounted on professional grade canvas and don’t need a frame, and each one comes complete with a little poem by

NPR

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W. Maxwell Prince's bloody, silly and deeply likeable new graphic novel imagines a world where works of art are real spaces you can step into — with real problems that can cause hundreds of deaths.

Artist's Palette

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• Due to work commitments my painting opportunities are limited … so I am a great believer in not wasting too much time. If I see a nice rig that I think would look good on canvas, I will take several photographs of it. I make sure I get a few close-

The Saturday Evening Post

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Page 57: The Saturday Evening Post, cover (Bucking Bronco), 1903, oil on canvas on hardboard, 27 ½ x 19 ½ in. Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles Page 58: Rounding Up, 1905, oil on canvas, 38 x 26 in. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody,

Artists & Illustrators

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WHERE DID YOU STUDY? I completed my foundation at Falmouth then went on to study a BA in illustration at Brighton. Although I was often frustrated to not have the studio space I needed to paint, I was taught skills such as presentation and professio

Southwest Art

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VISITORS TO CYNTHIA Duff’s solo show, taking place this month at Raitman Art Galleries in Vail, CO, can expect to see a plethora of Colorado vistas and wildlife portraits. While this new collection of work—about 20 paintings in total—isn’t out of the

DESIGNLINES

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In his Toronto studio, Brian Rideout is busy painting history. His American Collection series of oil paintings depicts the residences of the highly privileged – and the famous artworks sequestered within. “I was interested in documenting art collecti

PleinAir Magazine

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This painting was the spring installment of a four-season commission Horne made for the owner of this property. He generally spends about 30 hours on a painting of this size. “I knew I wanted an afternoon scene with backlighting, but I didn't see tha

Grand Designs Australia

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When you step inside Lara Scolari’s luminous Balmain studio, you won’t find her sitting demurely behind an easel, a dainty paintbrush in hand. No. Not in this studio. In this studio the hands, the arms, the whole body are the brushes. “The brush beco

Southwest Art

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WHEN ADDREN DOSS signed up for a mechanical drawing class in high school, she boldly set a precedent. “This was in 1966, and they didn’t allow girls to take that class,” says Doss, for whom the school decided to make an exception—and fortunately so,

Artist's Drawing and Inspiration

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To whom it may concern I am an emerging artist based in Botanic Ridge Victoria. I primarily work in coloured pencil and would love to be considered for inclusion in the Woodlands Gallery. I have attached four examples of my work for your information.