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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Painting Snowy Evergreens

Tips from the Watercolor Club

http://susieshort.net/watercolor-tips-heavy-snow1.html

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Great Tips

http://finearttips.com/2011/02/how-to-use-good-reference-photos-for-landscape-painting/

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Kelli McGregor on Colour In Your Life

Another video from an Australian TV series. Watch a beautiful painting come to life in real time right in the artist's studio.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Speed Painting - Dog in Pastels - Golden Retriever

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If only it were as easy as it looks.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Dave Behrens on Colour In Your Life

I followed Dave on Twitter and he in turn followed my Tweets. If you have 25 minutes this is a video that Dave did on Australian TV. It is not landscape or abstract but is a very interesting form of art. Hope you enjoy!

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Who said that we didn't work?

Thursday, November 15, 2012

This is a link where you can get free photos of all kinds. Some are better than others, so you have to take the time to look. http://paintmyphoto.ning.com/ They are sent in by casual photographers who send in their favourite things, scenery, still life, clouds, animals etc. and just want their photos with no copyrights to be used fby artist. Enjoy!

I found this link that might be helpful to our group. http://www.finearttips.com/2011/02/how-to-use-good-reference-photos-for-landscape-painting/ It shows how to work from photos.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

How to photograph your artwork. Please click on the address below....

Thanks to Manon for sending this in to us.......

http://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/how-to/marketing-your-art/708/how-to-photograph-your-artwork?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The+Chelsea+Magazine+Company+Ltd&utm_campaign=1751325_ARTISTS+November+2012&dm_i=6NM%2C11JBX%2C51R6ZN%2C37467%2C1

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Tom Thomson's Trees

A catalyst for the formation of the Group of Seven, Tom Thompson died in 1917 at Canoe Lake. We continue to be moved by his oil paintings today.

Writing about Thompson, the younger artist David Milne observed: "Varley and Lismer pines are pretty conventional pines, well done but quite familiar ... you admire their proficiency, that's all. But with Thomson's trees, it's different. You can't be indifferent. These few patches with knotted strings are powerful: there was strong emotion behind their making and they stir the same now."

Milne notes, too, how Thompson transcended the Group's inclination toward decorative patterning - at least as we see it in their larger finished works.

"A great point in Thomson's favour is this, his lack of perfection," Milne writes. "I am wary of craftsmanship. It is nothing in itself, neither emotion nor creation. I rather think it would have been wiser to have taken your 10 most prominent Canadians and sunk them in Canoe Lake - and saved Tom Thomson."

I read the above in the Globe and Mail art section. It makes one wonder if artists need to paint outside - plein air - to capture in their paintings the feelings nature evokes within them. .