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Reactive vs Proactive Artists

by [email protected] | Aug 3, 2024 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View

I’ve been thinking about what kind of artist I want to be. After 45 years in the business, I think its time. Do I choose to respond to what other artists are doing successfully and turn myself inside out trying to beat them at their own game? Or dare I trod my...

Picture Lights

by [email protected] | Jun 14, 2023 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View

A Circus Barker: See the video on FB. Heres’s the transcript: Folks, ya simply won’t believe how you’ve managed to live without picture lights. The light reflected by an original oil painting into a room is at least 375 times richer and warmer than any...

Shading

by [email protected] | Nov 4, 2022 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational

People think getting the right brush, or coolest color or the perfect medium is going to make them better painters. Painting is primarily an eye thing. A stick with the right value will make a far more meaningful mark than the finest sable brush or expensive pigment....

Form, Character and Likeness

by [email protected] | Dec 19, 2020 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational

Excerpt From “The Power of Positive Painting,” the Upcoming Color Book, by Robert Maniscalco Shedding Light on Values In the beginning, there was light. Long before Thomas Kinkaid turned “painter of light” into a ridiculous slogan, the masters knew of its...

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