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Be sure to sign up for the Art Center Information newsletter and take a chance to win the beautiful art table coffee book>>> When you are planning a still life, it is similar to doing a preliminary value sketch. In … Continue reading

As an  artist, you want to paint your future masterpiece in an effort to draw interest to your main point of focus.  There are certain things you can do to accomplish this.  One is to surround the center of interest … Continue reading

Here is a full size watercolor study for an acrylic painting I am preparing.  I usually don’t try to be as detailed in my color study as I was here, but I realized the way it was going, it would … Continue reading

Wow!  If a motivational speaker ever heard me say this, he/she would be all over me.  However, I’m talking about art.  No, I’m not negative about art, but very positive.  I’m talking about negative spaces…the spaces that surround a solid. … Continue reading