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The prices of some tubes of paints may make modern-day artists gasp, but often there’s a cheaper alternative, such as a synthetic version of a pigment. Now imagine painting in an era when the most beautiful of all blues was...
A fur map is a useful tool when painting cats to help you paint the fur accurately.
When painting, one decision that must be made at composition stage, is where the light is going to come from as this influences the shadows, contrasts, and colours. So what are the choices?
If you’ve never been to a spot in the world where the colours around you change dramatically with the setting sun, as Gauguin experienced when he went from France to the Pacific Ocean Island of Tahiti, then you may well...
When the weather gets good, why not take you paints outdoors and work on location? This
The adverts for tips painting holidays are very tempting and the destinations can be very exotic. But with so many to choose from, how do you decide which one is most suitable for you? Do you want one that's an...
Even if you haven't painted since grade school, your artistic expression longs to be released, says Judi Morales Gibson, who is the Guest Services Manager for Artista Creative Safaris for Women. In this article Judi gives seven reasons reasons she...
As soon as you start looking closely at colours, you realize that simply reaching for a tube of black paint whenever you need to put in a shadow doesn’t work. The result isn’t subtle enough to capture a realistic shadow....
In a lovely photo feature on BBC News a Tanzanian wood carver called Lugwani shows what goes into making a carving, from the selection of a piece of wood in the bush all the way to taking it to the...
Have you been thinking about making a career of your art and wondered whether you should go back to college to study art? Shaila started a discussion on the Painting Forum on this subject, saying: "I was wondering if ......
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