Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists

The Queen's Secret. Ann Baldwin, II" x 5" (27.9 x 12.7 cm), acrylic. ink, Caran d'Ache wax-oil crayons on 200 lb. (91 kg) Indian ...

Mediums and Glues There is an exciting array of acrylic mediums available today. They vary in viscosity from the very fluid (reg ...

All acrylic mediums are adhesive and can be used to glue collage. The heavier the collage item, the thicker the me- dium should ...

How to Compose How can you create an arrangement of paint, collage, and drawing that looks good? Alternately, how do you avoid y ...

Professional photographers know just what to include in the frame and what to leave out. They look through the viewfinder and mo ...

FOLLOWING AND BREAKING RULES Traditional art teachers often instill in their students certain tried and tested rules: Never put ...

OPPOSITE: Big John, Ann Baldwin, 12" x 16" (30.5 x 40, 6 cm), acrylic, collage on paper. Private collection. The big guy is a st ...

Where to Begin? A blank canvas or sheet of paper can be scary to some art- ists. If you're one of them, try starting a painting ...

The curve of the gauze leads the eye up to the strip of corrugated cardboard. Focal Point or Not? Let's begin with the dangerous ...

lR I CREATIVE PAI N T WORKSHOP ABOVE: The X marAs a traditional focal point, but the repeated circles encourage horizontal and v ...

How T O COMPOSE I 29 ...

Simple or Busy? Some artists feel comfortable putting a lot of "stuff" into their paintings; others prefer the uncluttered appro ...

Asymmetry exists when one side of a painting does not mirror the design of the other. It does not necessarily mean the piece is ...

Horizontals, Verticals, and Diagonals Verticals suggest strength and stability. Strong manmade objects we see regularly are tele ...

Il~~i~chreast brest How Do You Know When a Painting is Finished? This is a hard one to answer, because only the artist really kn ...

your painting's history, so don't allow it to cloud your judgment. Through X-rays we now know that some of the greatest painting ...

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Approaches to Abstract Design Small children playing with paint do so with little regard for how their paintings will turn out. ...

What is Abstract Painting? Abstract adjective labstraktl 1 theoretical rather than physical or concrete. 2 (of art) achieving it ...

Where to Begin? Getting started on an abstract painting can seem hard at first. After all, you're not simply going to reproduce ...