Tip on Pencil Portrait Drawing – The Problem of Seeing

By Remi Engels

For untrained artists the problem of seeing lies in the conflict that exists between the actual visual reality of an object and the way the brain attempts to represent our perception of this reality on the drawing paper. This attempt always involves the tendency to draw our symbolic preconception instead of the actual reality.

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You Asked – Recipes for Mixing Acrylic Paints?

Today’s questions comes from Pierre:

“Hi, I’m looking for a site or a person that have recipes to mix acrylic paints.

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Interview with Artist Helen Harris

Helen Harris PaintingAbout Helen

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Pastel Portrait Drawing Demonstration

ABOUT THE ARTIST

George Max is a Geologist, Fine Artist and Professional Translator from central Guatemala in Middle America. He was born in 1968 in a small town called of Cobán, 200 km north of Guatemala City. He traveled to the USA (Colorado State) in 1989 to study English under a one year scholarship program. He started getting acquainted with art since his first year in College in 1988. As an autodidact, he started his labor of art in 1992 making oil paintings on canvas. Nevertheless, it was until late 2004 when he began to produce formal artwork (oil paintings mainly) for exhibition and sale to date.

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Artist Spotlite – Sana Almimar

Artist Name: Sana Almimar

Location: Iraq  Baghdad

Title: Shanasheel

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Artist Spotlite – Brenda Scott

Artist Name: Brenda Scott

Location: Victoria, BC CANADA

Title: Favorite Chair

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You Asked – Still Life with a Copper Pot…

Today’s question comes from Edna, and she asks:

“I am doing a Still Life with a Copper Pot in the painting using the medium Acrylic.  Some time ago I painted a Copper dish in Pastel and it came out well. For the life of me I just can’t seem to get the same result with Acrylic’s. Any help would be very much appreciated.”

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“Secret Cove” – Step By Step Oil Painting Lesson By Mike Callahan

About Mike

Mike CallahanNationally recognized, award winning artist Mike Callahan is a fourth generation Nevada native who counts himself privileged to grow up in what he believes to be one of the most beautiful places on earth, the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains near Reno, Nevada where he still lives today. While he has been painting since childhood, he has only been painting in earnest for about the last 5 or 6 years.

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