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October 16, 2018 by princigal_admin

Yin and Yang in a Crustacean World

Remember last November, when Cindy Procious and Mia Bergeron had that fantastic two person exhibition with us? One of Cindy's largest paintings in that show was "Yin and Yang in a Crustacean World". Check out these in-progress photos Cindy took to see the ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: animals, Cindy Procious, fine art, in progress, lobsters, oil painting, Painting, seafood, still life, yin and yang

April 18, 2016 by princigal_admin

First of all, we wanted to send a big THANK YOU to everyone, both artists and art lovers, who came out to join us for the opening of our still life invitational, "The Language of Objects" this past Friday evening! We love the variety of folks that this ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: exhibitions, fine art, group exhibition, group show, oil painting, still life, The Language of Objects

October 13, 2015 by princigal_admin

What is it? The technique we'll be looking at today is a fun one: broken color. This term refers to a technique where an artist will apply colors to a painting in small strokes, but does not blend them, so that they blend optically rather than ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: broken color, Claude Monet, Colin Fraser, color, color theory, Edgar Degas, Events, exhibitions, figurative painting, fine art, Impressionism, landscapes, live painting demonstration, oil painting, Painting, still life, technique, Technique Tuesdays, Vincent van Gogh

October 6, 2015 by princigal_admin

What is it? Last week, we took a look at oil paints and acrylic paints, but this week's topic is a painting medium that predates both of them--egg tempera. Egg tempera is an ancient type of paint that is made by mixing powdered dry pigments with egg ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: ancient art, Andrew Wyeth, Art, Colin Fraser, Egg Tempera, Egyptian art, Events, exhibitions, figurative painting, fine art, landscape, live painting, michelangelo, Painting, Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli, still life, technique, Technique Tuesdays

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

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

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 3, 2015 by princigal_admin

What is it? Most everyone would probably be able to guess what exactly is meant by the phrase  "loading the brush" as it relates to painting--you dip the paintbrush in the paint! It's pretty simple. There are all sorts of ways, however, that artists ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: Barbara Flowers, brush, brushstroke, Chagall, Cindy Procious, decorative art, fine art, Jorge Alberto, landscape, landscapes, Larry Preston, Lynn Boggess, Matisse, Munch, oil paint, paint, rosemaling, still life, Still Lifes, technique, Technique Tuesdays

February 10, 2015 by princigal_admin

Welcome back to Technique Tuesday! Today we're taking a look at one of the most basic and essential techniques in art: chiaroscuro. What is it? Chiaroscuro (pronounced "keyARo-scuro") is another art term with its roots in the Italian language. As ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: art history, chiaroscuro, da Vinci, Egyptian art, Larry Preston, light, michelangelo, realism, shading, shadow, still life, technique, Technique Tuesdays

November 15, 2014 by princigal_admin

Happy Saturday! Today's Studio Selfie features Wisconsin still life painter Jacob A. Pfeiffer. Known for his highly realistic and often subtly humorous still life compositions, Jacob's work is currently featured in Principle Gallery's booth at the Boston ...

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Filed Under: Fine Art Tagged With: 10 Questions for the Artist, BIFAS, Boston International Fine Arts Show, Jacob A. Pfeiffer, self portrait, selfie, still life, Studio Selfie Saturday, StudioSelfieSaturday

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