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Tag Archives: Acrylic Paint
How Many Creative Options Do You Need?
This is a hard lesson to learn for many artists, myself included. Here it is, though: adding more creative options only causes you to reach a point of diminishing returns quite rapidly. Beyond that point, having more creative options available … Continue reading
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Tagged Acrylic Paint, Aesthetics, Anarchy, Arrangement, Art, Artist, Artists, arts, Authenticity, Beauty, Colours, Composition, Confidence, Creativity, Curiosity, Distraction, Emotions, Entertainment, Failure, Flow, Focus, Freedom, Honesty, Ideas, Imagination, Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, Invention, Joy, Learning, Magic, Music, Music Producer, Music Production, Musician, Musicians, Originality, Paint, Painters, Painting, Play, Procrastination, Quality, Reality, Recording, Software, Song Writing, Songwriting, Struggle, Success, Technique, Technology, Time
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Coming Back To Life
Time goes by fast. This year marks ten years of painting, for me. Before then, I didn’t paint at all, but since then, I have painted reasonably consistently, despite the ups and downs that life has thrown at me. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Acrylic Paint, Art, Artists, Colours, Despair, Destruction, Learning, Paint, Painters, Painting
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Going Through the Motions
Sometimes you show up to do your art and you’re just not into it. Your heart doesn’t sing while you create and you don’t particularly like the results you produce. Is it worth going through the motions? I think it … Continue reading
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Tagged Acrylic Paint, Art, Artists, Comfort, Grief, Joy, Kaizen, Mourning, Sadness, Showing Up, Small Steps
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Painting With X-Rays
Imagine that you have to do a painting of a model, from life, but the only light sources available to you, in the studio, are some radio isotopes (strontium 90 and caesium 137, for example) and a left over black … Continue reading
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Tagged Acrylic Paint, Art, Artists, Daniel Smith, Duochrome, Jaune Brilliant, Lapis Sunlight, Life Model, Light, Painters, Painting, Portrait, Radio Isotopes, Skeleton, Technique, Thought Experiment, Tone Reversal, Ultraviolet Light, X-Rays
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12 Bad Reponses to Artistic Rejection
Rejection sucks. It hurts. It really hurts a lot. When you take the risk of presenting something you made, which you took pride in and which is an expression of your best efforts and the best thing you were capable … Continue reading
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Tagged Acrylic Paint, Aesthetics, Art, Artists, Courage, Failure, Fear, Hurt, Injustice, Rejection, Shame, Unhappiness
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100 Things That Make Me Smile
Have you ever caught yourself smiling, without at first being aware that you were? That happened to me recently, so I thought it might be a good idea to note what it was that made me smile, in spite of … Continue reading
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Tagged Acrylic Paint, Appreciation, Authenticity, Connection, Contentment, Cooking, Creativity, Culinary Arts, Family, Friends, Grace, Gratitude, Growth, Happiness, Humanity, Humour, Imagination, Innovation, Inspiration, Jokes, Laughter, Music, Musician, Nature, Oil Paint, Painting, Peace, Pleasure, Reading, Smile, Smiles, Smiling, Songwriting, Success, Writing
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Texture
For me, one of the most exciting aspects of works by Monet or Van Gogh is the texture of their paintings. You can see the brush strokes, the palette knife marks and the velocity of every painterly gesture, etched permanently … Continue reading
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Tagged Acrylic Medium, Acrylic Paint, Aesthetics, Art, Artists, arts, Beauty, brush strokes, Confidence, Creativity, Impasto, Learning, Monet, Oil Paint, Oil Painting, Open Time, Paint, Painters, Painting, palette knife, Palette Knives, Passion, Stand Oil, Structure Gel, Technique, Texture, Van Gogh
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Which Apple Is The Juiciest?
I had a nice, juicy apple for my lunch today. It was bought from a supermarket and it had the word “juicy” written on the bag. And it was a juicy apple, but not actually the sweetest apple I have … Continue reading
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Tagged Acrylic Paint, Art, Artists, arts, Colours, Confidence, Creativity, Experimentation, Humanity, Ideas, Integrity, Knowledge, Learning, Money, Paint, Painters, Painting, Play, Recommendations, Reputation, Success, Technique, Trust
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A Change in Direction
This week, I painted something that was a little different and which got a good reaction from my friends and family. The difference was that I covered the canvas in black paint, with some acrylic medium mixed and painted with … Continue reading
Creative Ideas for Starving Artists 