Category Archives: Art preparation

Tips to Finding Freedom in Your Realistic Paintings

If you are a realist painter working freely, with no drawing, without preparing, and having only a slight idea of what composition you are after has a downside to it. What should you add or remove to make the image … Continue reading →

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Artist Preparing for a Painting

I’m sure most all artists do strange things in an effort to capture some idea for a drawing or painting. Here is artist, R. D. Burton preparing a pose for a painting of father time. In the right hand will … Continue reading →

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Five Tips That Help Artist Make Preparatory Drawings

In the distant past, drawings were primarily used as studies for later paintings. They were not the end itself but a means to an end. We know this by studying the many planned painting sketches of any of the masters … Continue reading →

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I’m Musing Up My Next Masterpiece

Be sure to sign up for the Art Center Information newsletter and enter the drawing to win a free coffee table art book.>>> Did I say that I’m musing up my next masterpiece? What does that mean? If you are … Continue reading →

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Select The Medium Of Your Choice

When preparing a painting, the artist should select a medium they have mastered. A medium is personal, but a good artist can master almost any of them if they work at it long enough. I found the following film both … Continue reading →

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Remember The Finished Painting Will Always Belong To You

No matter what you see in nature. No matter what scene you sketch or photograph. Remember, from the moment you start placing pigment to canvas, board, paper, or whatever surface you use, the finished painting belongs to no one but … Continue reading →

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Artist, R.D.Burton’s, Lady in the Field

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 →

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Painting the “Old Woodie”

The picture represents step number two of a future painting I have planned. I posted my steps that I use to finish a painting in my second blog, November 17th, entitled: Seven Steps To A Finished Painting. If you … Continue reading →

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CONCENTRATE ON THE NEGATIVE!

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 →

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SEVEN STEPS TO A MASTERPIECE

Every artists develops their own techniques to a finished painting. I’ve developed mine, which was a painstaking work in progress. I found that I like to know all the problems I will encounter long before paint ever touches canvass. There … Continue reading →

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