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September 8, 2015 by princigal_admin

Today's Technique Tuesday post is going to take a look at an aspect of art creation that many art appreciators easily forget--the surface under the paint! Here we have pictured just a few examples of the many different types of surfaces fine ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: acrylic painting, aluminum, Andre Derain, board, canvas, Claude Monet, copper, Events, exhibitions, fine art, IGOR, International Guild of Realism, Joan Miro, linen, masonite, oil painting, Painting, panel, Rembrandt, surfaces, technique, Technique Tuesdays

September 1, 2015 by princigal_admin

What is it? Painting in miniature is more than just painting a small work. The word "miniature" originally came from a Latin term for the red pigment that was used in the creation of illuminated manuscripts. Because the decoration and illustration in ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: Art, Book of Kells, Egyptian art, exhibitions, IGOR, illuminated manuscripts, Indian art, International Guild of Realism, miniature, Painting, Persian art, watercolor, wildlife painting

August 29, 2015 by princigal_admin

Principle Gallery wishes a huge CONGRATULATIONS to each of the IGOR 10th Annual Juried Exhibition award winners, as well as all the brilliant and talented artists whose work made it into this exhibition! And also, thank you so much to everyone who came ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: Art, art gallery, awards, exhibitions, figurative, fine art, IGOR, International Guild of Realism, landscape, oil painting, realism, still life

August 4, 2015 by princigal_admin

What is it? The topic of today's post is a medium that many folks (and certainly anyone who had a childhood art class!) are familiar with: watercolor. One of the very oldest types of paint, watercolor consists of pigments suspended in a water-soluble ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: Albrecht Durer, cityscapes, Events, exhibitions, Iain Stewart, International Guild of Realism, J. M. W. Turner, Jamie Wyeth, John Singer Sargent, Painting, Paul Cezanne, technique, Technique Tuesdays, Vincent van Gogh, watercolor

July 28, 2015 by princigal_admin

What is it? If you read last week's Technique Tuesday post about Realism, you already got a sneak peek at the fun that is trompe-l'oeil! A French term which translates to "deceive the eye," trompe-l'oeil is a technique that creates an optical illusion ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: International Guild of Realism, Jorge Alberto, optical illusion, realism, technique, Technique Tuesdays, trompe l'oeil

July 21, 2015 by princigal_admin

Realism....Hyperrealism....Trompe l'oeil....There are many terms we use in the art world to describe the style in which something is painted, and even for those of us who work in the field, it can get a little confusing at times.  The nuances of these ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: abstract, Art, contemporary realism, fine art, hyperrealism, Impressionism, International Guild of Realism, linear, non-objective art, objective art, painterly, Photorealism, realism, style, technique, Technique Tuesdays, trompe l'oeil

June 23, 2015 by princigal_admin

Welcome back to Technique Tuesday! Here's the last part of that series looking at what artists use for reference (we've already looked at painting from photographs and from the imagination). Today's post will be a bit different, as it's a guest post ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: Elizabeth Floyd, Events, exhibitions, fine art, flowers, IGOR, International Guild of Realism, irises, oil painting, Painting, painting from life, still life, technique, Technique Tuesdays

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