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Category Archives: From the Easel
Scumbling An Acrylic Painting Technique
Creating art with acrylic paint requires several specialized techniques for applying the paint in order to make the painting look realistic and believable. The technique that I want to talk about today is called scumbling. Continue reading
5 Ways to Improve Your Art
The old addage that “Practice makes perfect” is one of the most misleading pieces of advice that anyone can be given. In golf, practicing the wrong way to swing a golf club will only improve your ability to do it the wrong way. You must learn the correct way to chord a guitar, to swing a golf club, and to paint. Then continually practice the correct way and your skills will improve. Continue reading
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Tagged abilities, colors, improve, practice, stroke, support, tools
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What Do You Want to Know
What would you like to read about at North Forty Wildlife Art’s Blog? Continue reading
Editing Your Photographed Artwork in Photoshop
If you want to photographs your own artwork, Photoshop has a vast array of tools that will help you get the best image possible of your artwork. This article covers the two most used tools, the Levels Adjustment Layer and the Curves Adjustment Layer. Continue reading
How to Photograph Your Artwork
With an extensive background in photography and the necessary equipment, I photograph my own artwork so I can control all aspects of the process. Here are 5 things I do to ensure high quality images of my paintings. Continue reading
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Tagged aperature, digital reproduction, exposure, f-stop, histogram, how to photographs your artwork, Nikon D200 SLR, photoshop, tripod, website
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How to Clean Paint Brushes
One of the most import tools in an artist’s tool box, in my opinion, is a good set of quality brushes. No craftsman can produce quality work with inferior grade tools. Continue reading
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Tagged acrylic, bristles, ferrule, how to clean paint brushes, oil
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Acrylic Color Palette
Artists are like songwrites in a sense. If you listen to much music, the songs that most songwriters produce sound very similar from song to song. The words are different, and the melody is different, but the style and the mood of the songs are frequently very similar. Continue reading
Painting Trees
Carrying on with the same theme of the background, I mixed ultramarine blue, burnt umber, and a small amount of titanium white which gave me a dark cool tone for my distant trees.
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Tagged atmospheric perspective, Color, cool tones, highlights, trees
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Painting for Fun
As artists, we sometimes feel as though every work that we produce must meet certain standards. We place pressures on ourselves to create a masterpiece in every painting we start. Continue reading
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Tagged clouds, Color, composition, ivory black, L shaped composition, painting for fun, titanium white, ultramarine blue
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Waterfowl… Why I Love to Paint Them
When I first started trying to learn to paint, I was blown away by the works of such waterfowl masters as David Maass, Phillip Crowe, Maynard Reece, Jim Hautman, Ken Carlson and Larry Chandler just to name a few! Continue reading
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Tagged Color, duck stamps, fog, habitat, painting waterfowl, reflection, sunrise, water, waterfowl, waterfowl masters
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