Category: Painting
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Practical Painting
This is an unpretentious little how-to artists magazine created by an individual artist (identified only as “Denise”). The site features compact, informative articles on art technique and tool basics such as choosing canvas, colors and brushes. Her “What Paint Colors do I Need” article, for example, is a quick introduction to choosing a split-primary color…
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Bill Mather
Bill Mather does paintings and portraits of women in a variety of media. He also does landscapes in acrylic and oil. The site in includes a number of nice sketches, as well as pieces from figure drawing classes. What I enjoy most, though, are his direct and lively portrait drawings.
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William Whitaker
William Whitaker ia s contemporary American realist who paints mostly portraits and full length figures of women in a refined painterly technique. The paintings are sometimes accompanied by nice detail images. The galleries are somewhat awkwardly arranged but it’s worth clicking around. The Retrospective Galleries are kind of tucked away and they contain 50 works.…
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Erik Tiemens
Paintings and painted sketches of landscapes and cities in a beautiful, loose, painterly style. Browse through the Gallery but don’t miss some of the work tucked away on the home page and News page. My favorites are the gouache and watercolor sketches in the Maine and More Europe sections. Tiemens also happens to be a…
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Nigel in Europe
OK. I’ll say right off that I love travel sketches. These are some nice ones, along with more finished paintings, created by a young artist from California as he made his way across Europe in a VW camper. Includes a journal of his travels, photos and some studio work.