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Category Archives: For Artists
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Paint a realistic landscape with colored pencils, beginning with an umber under painting. Continue reading
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Mini Clinic: Drawing Legs & Feet
This month, we’ll take a look at drawing legs and feet, reportedly one of the most difficult parts of equine anatomy to draw. A horse’s feet are nearly as distinctive to each horse as human fingerprints are to each person. … Continue reading
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Mini Clinic: Complementary Under Painting
Today we’ll take a look at using a complementary under painting for colored pencil paintings. With this method, the under painting is created using colors opposite finished colors on the color wheel. For example, blue is opposite orange on the … Continue reading
Mini Clinic on Glazing: Bay Horse
Today, we’ll do a mini clinic on glazing color with the Flemish technique of oil painting. Color glazing is the last step in the Flemish painting technique. Most of the color work is transparent in nature, with the finished dead … Continue reading
Transparent Earth Tones
A staple on my palette are earth tones, what I refer to as ‘horsy colors’. The most obvious place I use them is in the final stages, when I’m glazing color over the painting. Colors like Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber … Continue reading
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The Artist’s Business Plan
There are two basic types of artists. Serious artists and hobby artists. What’s the difference? A business plan. The serious artist is in the business of making and selling their art. He or she enjoys creating art just as much … Continue reading
