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Lynda Lynn
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Cleaning Oil Painting Brushes
What you’ll need Your brush washing container (the one with artist quality odorless mineral spirits and a screen) You can make one by...
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Handy Dandy Household Painting Tip
Making Wall Touch-Up Markers out of Leftover Paint Good for latex paint. Make markers by freezing some leftover paint in an ice cube tray...
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How to Tell Good Abstract Art
An abstract painting catches your eye and you like it but you think ”I could do that” and back way. Don’t. Enjoy it. It appealed to you...
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Lynda Lynn
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Painting Value Scale – why do you care?
Value is the support of a painting and guides a viewer. Artists use a painting value scale that runs between a darkest dark, black, and...
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Lynda Lynn
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A Golden Day
I’ve been struggling with trying to understand just what it is that motivates me to paint a particular painting. What inspired me? What...
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Lynda Lynn
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Art Supply Junkie – Tip for Using Soft Pastels
This little tip has saved me invaluable time with clean up. Tools needed: Two sheets of newspaper Masking tape Keeping the chalk dust...
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Gelli Plate Print Making with test results
Well this has been an interesting experiment. I plopped the Gellies on to a piece of printer paper so that I could use the edges of the...
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Gelli Making Day 2
When I got up this morning I could hardly wait to check how my Gelli making has turned out. They seemed to be set last night but I...
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Lynda Lynn
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Gelli Plate Making Day 1
A fellow artist talked excitedly about trying monoprinting using Gelli plates. Being the consummate explorer and “art supply junkie” I...
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How to Make a Value Scale
Problems with chiaroscuro? And don’t we all. However I recognize that it is that dark to light range that makes for strength in a...
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