Tag Archives: R. D. Burton

How to Paint Reflecting Surfaces

Here at Art Center Information, we have often been asked about the proper way to portray reflections. Reflections are images bouncing off an object and reaching your eyes indirectly such as by bouncing from a shiny surface, mirror, water, or … Continue reading →

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Using External Light With Your Artwork

I sometimes use a sunlamp or flashlight with my artwork after I feel the painting is finished, especially when I use watercolor media where I can lift the paint. What I attempt to accomplish is to see what the difference … Continue reading →

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Reviewing Three Selected Blog Posts

From time to time the writers at Art Center Information prefer to go back and review a few selected blogs written in the past. Here are references to three informative blogs that may help the novice understand certain valuable tips … Continue reading →

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Tip to Capture the Moment

There are those unaware that Pablo Picasso usually started his paintings with carefully executed and realistic drawings. Later he would paint over the drawings as his study of the subject progressed and deepened. This was not unusual for artists of … Continue reading →

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Masking and Washes in Watercolor Painting

In his painting, Woman in the Field, artist Richard D. Burton used masking as well as layering in his wet-on-dry watercolor style painting. He explains his technique here for the viewers of Art Center Information. To prepare the painting and … Continue reading →

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Inspiration for the Wannabe Artist

There are some of us that drew or painted when we were young but got caught up in business and responsibilities, children and such. We left our passion by putting it off until retirement; but the good news … Continue reading →

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“Think Out” Shadows in Advance of Painting

If you paint several parallel but separated one-half inch lines of different colors on a white sheet of paper and place a vertical object nearby and then shine a bright light at an angle so the object casts a shadow … Continue reading →

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Art Center Information’s Weekly Review

In our article on Tuesday, titled: Artists: The Great Communicators, we said: the artist will find out that the more carefully and searchingly they look, the more they find the subject eluding their ability to record it on paper, the … Continue reading →

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Finding The Artist’s Zone

Here I am in my zone. I’ve determined that I will create a graphite drawing and a monochromatic painting of what I will call the Gears of Time. I’m working here on some sketches. I’m trying to capture the age … Continue reading →

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Some of The Agony an Artist Goes Through to a Completed Painting

The hands are all I am trying to get right here. I did not do them quite right, and it makes me Cra-a-a-a-azy! However, I will get it right or else. I have to make “Old Father Time” lean his … Continue reading →

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