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Tag Archives: water soluble oil paints
Adding Texture To Your Paintings
When considering texture in a painting, there are two types. There is visual texture, and actual texture. Either way, texture is something that has to be pre-planned from the beginning of your painting. It starts with what type of support … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylic paints, acrylics, art, art instruction, color, composition, Impressionists, landscape painting, painting, texture, water soluble oil paints
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A Misty Walk – Painting Fog
Out walking one misty fall day, I decided to try to capture this scene with my camera. I used the warm filter on my camera and captured this lovely scene and decided to try to paint it. As you follow … Continue reading
Nature’s Paintbox
This time of year, Mother Nature gets into the painting act. Here in the Northwest, our deciduous trees are all starting to turn beautiful colors. It truly looks like someone took a paintbrush to them. The rich reds and oranges … Continue reading
The Challenge – What do I See?
The challenge for all painters is how to paint a subject so that it looks three-dimensional on a two-dimensional surface. How do I paint what I see? This is done by painting the object so that you are “fooling the eye” … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylic paints, acrylics, art, art instruction, color, composition, painting, Plein Air Painting, trees, water soluble oil paints
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How to Use Neutrals in Your Paintings
One of the questions I got from yesterday’s blog post was “How do I keep my colors from being so garish?” Garish, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder, but learning how to tone paint colors (this … Continue reading
Painting Workshop
Over Labor Day Weekend, I took a wonderful 3 day workshop from California Plein Air Painter, Charles Waldman. Umpqua Valley Art Association in beautiful Roseburg, Oregon sponsors a plein air paint out each year and has begun offering a pre- or … Continue reading
On Becoming a Colorist
Many of my students have asked me to expand on the theme of how to interpret color and to learn the “colorist” way of painting – especially my landscape painters. So what is a colorist? This term was first applied … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylic paints, acrylics, art, art instruction, beauty, color, color theory, color wheel, Colorist, complementary colors, Fauvism, gouache, Impressionists, landscape painting, oil painting, painting, painting in layers, Plein Air Painting, water soluble oil paints
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Observing Color
Being able to capture a mood or feeling in your painting depends on your knowledge of color and color mixing. One critical element of understanding color is learning to see color as value. What is value? It is how light … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Vacations, Painting
Tagged acrylic paints, acrylics, art, art instruction, beautiful life, beauty, color, color wheel, complementary colors, landscape painting, Pacific Northwest, painting, painting atmosphere, Plein Air Painting, trees, value scale, water soluble oil paints
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Vacation Painting
This is the time of the year when a lot of us try to get away from home for a short while and get out in nature. Family vacations when I was a kid was always something highly anticipated. My … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Vacations, Family, Painting, Uncategorized
Tagged acrylic paints, acrylics, art, art instruction, beautiful life, color, country life, gardens, Impressionists, landscape painting, local artists, Northwest summers, Pacific Northwest, painting, Painting Vacations, Plein Air Painting, Summer, trees, water soluble oil paints
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Composing a Painting
Like good music, paintings are enhanced by good composing. As a conductor guides and directs the orchestra, the artist chooses the content, mood, details (solos), and focus of a painting. Great compositions of either kind don’t just happen by accident. It … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylic paints, acrylics, art, art instruction, art workshops, beautiful life, beauty, color, composition, gouache, Impressionists, landscape painting, local artists, Northwest summers, painting, Plein Air Painting, water soluble oil paints
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