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How to Make Fascinating Watercolor Paintings

If you are fascinated with watercolor, you can make fascinating watercolor paintings. You need only be passionate. When you are passionate about something your work will come to life. You will make paintings that touch, excite, and fascinate other people, … Continue reading →

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Art is The Job

Art is my job now, and has been since I retired a few years back from over forty-six years with a sales management career in business. I knew all along that when I retired, I would find a way to … Continue reading →

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A Short Review of Hot Topics

From time to time we at Art Center Information like to direct some of our new readers to different articles that have had a good amount of interest and visits from our friends. These articles may have also been missed … Continue reading →

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Transparent Watercolor

“Watercolor has an action all its own, it moves, it crawls, and it fights back.”~John Pike Instead of using the term technique one uses when painting transparent watercolor, it should be considered tricks. It’s hard pressed for one to learn … Continue reading →

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When It’s Finished, It’s finished…But When?

With me, it’s not the technical aspects of how to paint, nor to fix a flawed painting, but when to stop and say it is over…it’s finished. Let’s face it, you can’t keep adding another drop of paint or another … Continue reading →

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The Artist’s Studio

It would be great if all of us could afford the perfect artist’s studio filled with expensive furnishings, and have the luxury or means to create the ideal work area. However, where ever an artist sets up an easel is … Continue reading →

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Why Paint People?

Recently, my grand-daughter, Olivia, sent me a Facebook message mentioning she was ready to get back into her art, now the wedding was over and she was back from her honeymoon. She asked if I had some suggestion of what … Continue reading →

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The Importance of The Impressionists

“Everything painted on the spot has a strength, a power, a vividness that cannot be recaptured in the studio.”~Eugene Boudin There are some great arguments and discussions about the importance of painting in open air rather than in the studio. … Continue reading →

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Simplify Your Subject

When you consider some of the really good artists and their works, you often wonder what they have in common. In many cases, an art critic might point out that it is the ability to simplify their subject. This, of … Continue reading →

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Get Instant Success Using Vivid Colors

Feel free and let go when applying color~R. D. Burton You can bring almost any subject to life when using a wider vibrant range of colors than one would normally expect to see. Artwork that shows the use of a … Continue reading →

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