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From the category archives:
Even the most casual snapshot can be a treasure for finding a reference for painting a portrait. If it draws your eye more than once, chances are you sense a story to be told, written, or painted. This stock photo was given to participants in a painting contest at Innographx.com/forum a year ago, with instructions [...]
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Why would anyone come to read my blog Over Coffee? Or any blog for that matter? The question was the first in my blogging class homework assignment, and it has kept me wondering for the past two weeks. Why indeed? Why read my blog? For the same reasons I read those similar to mine, I [...]
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It smells like the beginning of fall — you know, that smell of half-summer, half fall. Oh, I can’t explain it… but it’s nice. It smells like something new is coming… So said my twenty-year-old granddaughter Lyssa, as she opened the door to the morning on the way to her college classes for the day. [...]
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My friend The Purple Owl says: Getting creative ideas is not something you do. It’s something you allow to happen. My best ideas for solutions often come with time; they rarely present themselves immediately. For instance, in Chris Price’s Painter Lab at the Digital Art Academy, the first week’s assignment this fall was to paint [...]
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Seems like August never happened. I know it must have — I had a birthday. At the end of July I collected a blue ribbon and my paintings that didn’t sell from one art show, and hustled them to another town a few miles east of me for a month-long exhibit. In September I moved [...]
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I originally posted this tutorial — portrait of a little boy, painted using Painter X software and a Wacom Tablet — in the doodle threads at Painter Talk, a digital painting forum online. Not because it was a doodle, but because I wanted the company of friends who were in and out of that forum [...]
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