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May 2, 2017 by princigal_admin

What is it? Well, this week's "technique" isn't a difficult one to understand by any means, but it's still plenty of fun to come across, and well worth a post! All kinds of art can be depicted in a painting-- sculpture, architecture, jewelry, pottery, ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: art gallery, Camille Pissarro, Diego Velazquez, event, exhibition, fine art, Geoffrey Johnson, interior, Johanses Vermeer, oil painting, Painting, Rembrandt, Rene Magritte, technique, technique tuesday, WIlliam Merritt chase

February 14, 2017 by princigal_admin

What is it? Welcome back to Technique Tuesdays! After high demand, we decided to revive the blog series with new discussions on techniques, genres, and art history. With that said, we would love for our readers to participate in this series, as well. If ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: Art, draw, drawing, durer, Events, exhibitions, fine art, Local Art local Eats, Rembrandt, Robert Liberace, silver, silverpoint, sketch, Susan O'Niell, technique, technique tuesday

October 27, 2015 by princigal_admin

What is it? Simply put, a nocturne is a painting of a night scene. James Abbott McNeill Whistler was the first to apply the term to paintings (it is originally a descriptor of a piece of music whose composition is evocative of nighttime) and in art ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: Edward Robert Hughes, Events, exhibitions, fine art, James Abbott McNiell Whistler, landscape, landscapes, live painting, night painting, night scene, nocturne, oil painting, Painting, Rembrandt, technique, Technique Tuesdays, Vincent van Gogh

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

June 30, 2015 by princigal_admin

What is it? This week's Technique Tuesday subject is not a new concept for anyone (particularly in today's "selfie" filled world!). But not only is the self-portrait is an important exercise for an artist to undertake, it is also significant to view as ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: Adrian Piper, Albrecht Durer, BP Portrait Award, drawing, Events, exhibitions, Felicia Forte, fine art, Frida Kahlo, IGOR, Katsushika Hokusai, Mia Bergeron, Michael DeVore, Pablo Picasso, Painting, Rembrandt, self portrait, technique, Technique Tuesdays, Teresa Oaxaca, Terry Strickland, Vincent van Gogh, Zinaida Serebriakova

April 21, 2015 by princigal_admin

Remember the Technique Tuesday post where we took a look at chiaroscuro? Today's post is going to take a look at a very cool technique, closely related to chiaroscuro: tenebrism. What is it? Tenebrism, like chiaroscuro, is all about the use of ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: Abraham Mignon, Baroque, Brian Martin, Caravaggio, contrast, dark, Events, exhibition, fine art, Greg Gandy, Jeremy Mann, light, oil painting, Painting, Rembrandt, Richard Murdock, still life, technique, Technique Tuesdays, Valerio D'Ospina, value

March 10, 2015 by princigal_admin

What is it? Today's featured technique is the dry brush technique. Like last week's technique, the multi-loaded brush, this technique deals with the way that the artist loads their brush before applying it to the canvas. With the dry brush technique, ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: Chinese art, dry brush, exhibitions, Kevin Fitzgerald, landscape, landscapes, Manet, oil paint, paint, Painting, Rembrandt, Song Dynasty, technique, Technique Tuesdays, watercolor

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