Welcome to Art Opening(s), the podcast where there are no gatekeepers, no stupid questions, and art for all. Hosted by Courtney Jordan and Samantha Sanders and sponsored by Network.Money, Money, Money: Your Questions, AnsweredMoney makes the world go round … or at least, money doesn’t hurt — especially if you’re an artist.
This week we bring you a gorgeous colored pencil piece from North Light Books’ most recent art competition book, Strokes of Genius 4: Exploring Line: Linda Lucas Hardy’s Yesterday Morning When I Was Young.Yesterday Morning When I Was YoungLinda Lucas HardyPrismacolor on UArt 800 sanded pastel paper16″ x 25.
5 Tips for Maximizing Land, Sea and Sky That Start with a Bit of QuirkWhen you paint a place, it is so exciting to be able to paint it the way you actually see it — and the way you want others to see it. To embed a mood and personality of your choice into the landscape so it becomes unique to you as the artist?
Because J M W Turner used non-lightfast red pigments, the reds in this painting have faded significantly. We will never know what this famous piece originally looked like. (The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berthto be broken up, 1838, oil on canvas, 36 x 48, 1839.)What is lightfastness?Lightfastness is a quality that refers to the way that paint colors age over time.
SPONSORED BYCall for Artists for the 1st Dafen International Oil Painting BiennaleAny artist, no matter where they are in the development of their career, is likely to be interested in showing their work as much as possible, including at international venues. Such displays and exhibition inclusions raise an artist’s profile.
Put the Water in Watercolor ArtWhy not use a water medium to paint water? It just seems logical! You can get stunning results for painting seascapes with these painting techniques for creating different types of moving water: gentle waves, rolling waves, water crashing on rocks and rolling over wet sand, with Grant Fuller in his video, Painting the Sea in Watercolor.
