- Free Art Instruction - Portrait Painting Tips & Techniques
by: Ralph Serpe
Date Posted: April 14 2006
Being able to capture the likeness of a human being on canvas, using paint, is certainly a sought after accomplishment for many new painters. It can also be somewhat challenging. This article will cover some of the more basic portrait painting tips & techniques and help lessen some of the confusion many beginners face. With practice, you will soon be painting portraits like the masters.
If at all possible, I highly recommend you paint your portraits using a live model as opposed to a photograph. There is simply no substitution for painting from life.
Painting a successful portrait is all about how you observe the subject. You want to study the subject as a whole. Study the bone structure and try to see shapes and planes. Do not try and paint every little detail exactly as you see it.
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- Tips on How to Buy and Shop for Authentic Canadian Inuit Art (Eskimo Art) Sculptures
by: Clint Leung
Date Posted: April 20 2006
Many visitors to Canada will be exposed to Inuit art (Eskimo art) sculptures while touring the country. These are the magnificent hand made sculptures carved from stone by the Inuit artists living in the northern Arctic regions of Canada. While in some of the major Canadian cities (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec City) or other tourist areas popular with international visitors such as Banff, Inuit sculptures will be seen at various retail shops and displayed at some museums. Since Inuit art has been getting more and more international exposure, people may be seeing this Canadian fine art form at galleries and museums located outside Canada too. As a result, it will be natural for many tourists and art collectors to decide that they would like to purchase Inuit sculptures as nice souvenirs for their homes or as very unique gifts for others.
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- Arts and Crafts: Make Money Doing Something You Love
by: David Kamau
Date Posted: April 14 2006
Are you a crafty person? If not, don't worry as you can learn to be. Arts and Crafts can be both exciting hobbies as well as money-makers. What's better than to earn some money doing something you love?
There are as many variations of crafts as there are crafters, so we obviously can't list them all here. But for starters here are a few to consider:
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- Defining Abstract Art
by: Lynne Taetzsch
Date Posted: April 07 2006
The term "abstract art" is like the term "modern music" in the sense that it is a very broad umbrella sheltering a wide variety of art. But like "abstract math," the general sense of the term is that it is the opposite of the concrete, or "realism." At one end of the continuum is a painting of a violin so perfectly rendered that we feel we could reach into the frame, pick up the instrument, and play it. At the other end is a canvas painted pure white or black all over. There is nothing in it to reach in and touch.
A simple, common definition of "abstract art" is "not realistic." Yet many artists who call their work abstract, actually do have a subject in mind when they paint. They take a figure or landscape and simplify it, exaggerate it, or stylize it in some way. They are not trying to imitate nature, but to use nature as a starting off point. Color, line, and form are more important to them than the details of the actual subject matter. They want to give a sense or feel for the subject rather than an exact replication.
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- Profiting From Pleasure - Art Collecting Tips - A Six-Part Series on Successful Art Collecting - Part 4 - Know The Art Market
by: Carol Chua
Great collectors know the marketplace, and the marketplace knows them. They are plugged into the grapevine and are among the first to find out when a choice work becomes available. They are active in the hunt for quality pieces to add to their collection, so they make it known that they want to be kept informed.
Cultivate Relationships With Good Dealers
Did you know that not all newly-available art is displayed by galleries, whether brick-and-mortar or online? Quite often, the best items are offered and sold to favored customers without any publicity or exposure. The most sought-after pieces often exchange hands privately.
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- Vienna: City Of The Arts
by: Steven Cronin
On the banks of the Danube, Vienna and its population of over 2 million people bask proudly in their cultural heritage. Vienna's love affair with the arts stretches back centuries and helped make it today, Austria's number one tourist attraction.
A romantic imperial city, Vienna bears the hallmarks of a capital steeped in history, beautifully contrasted by its modern infrastructure.
A city of music, Vienna was home to some of history's greatest composers. Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Strauss were all proud to call Vienna their home.
Vienna's musical heritage has been preserved to the present day. The Vienna Boys Choir is ever popular and the Wiener Philharmoniker remains a world class orchestra.
But it's not all about classical music. Vienna boasts a vibrant nightlife that compares with the best, catering for folks of all ages, young and old.
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- Horses in Art
by: Andrea Balch
The History of the horse in art is one that spans thousands of years, and goes back to before the horse was first domesticated. The discoveries of rock paintings at Lascaux and Avignon in France have provided us with an insight , not only in to the very early artists, but also of the physical appearance of the primitive horse. That these paintings have survived at all is unbelievable, but when you consider their date of approximately 20,000 BC, and compare this to the condition they are in, is it quite astonishing.
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