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Artist Tip #21 – How I created children’s paper scrap packs for Christmas gifts

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Last night I assembled three paper scrap packs for my nieces; ages three, six and eight.
If you are like me you have many many paper scraps, oops prints and papers that are too small to use. I cut down a larger sheet of cardboard with teddy bears printed on it which now doubles as the [...]

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Artist Tip #20 – How to Draw a Miniature in 5 EASY Steps

How to Draw a Miniature in 5 EASY Steps

Cut a piece of paper no larger than half the size of the palm of your hand
Grab your smallest tipped paintbrush, nibbed pen or sharpen that pencil tip to a very fine point
Make sure your eyes are never further than 8 inches away from that piece of [...]

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Artist Tip #19 – Fighting for the right to be an artist

After writing the last tip I was left feeling empty, emotionless and bland.
This week I feel optimistic, content and hopeful that the hard work I am doing will pay off. And it is. Through continuing to improve one’s skills and continual learning and perhaps a bit of luck one can become successful in the Art [...]

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Artist Tip #18 – Are you feeling it?

Seems these last few weeks that feeling has been there as quickly as it goes. I left my journal at a friend of friends house and have yet to retrieve it. She said the night earlier she would run it up and punched my phone number into her phone as I exited the cab. Never [...]

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Artist Tip #17 – Did you mix enough of that color?

Did you mix enough of that color?
As the years progress I’ve learned only one thing when mixing custom colour in any medium regardless of project size and that is this, to always mix more paint than you think you will need. ALWAYS!
Last Week’s Tip – Why on earth did you buy that?
Next Week’s Tip – [...]

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Artist Tip #16 – Why on earth did you buy that?

Have you ever stuffed your cart so full of art supplies, paid for them, lugged them 1000 clicks across an international border only to be strip searched for stolen erasers!

OK, I did buy a few bags full of paper, pens and other artist sundries while visiting New York City in the Spring of 1994 [...]

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Artists Tip #15 – The truth behind the struggle

The truth behind the struggle
You hear people speak of the struggling artist. It’s almost a romantic notion to have that said to you or about you if you are in fact an artist. I hate that notion. You never hear of a struggling physician or a struggling carpenter. Only artist’s seem worthy of such a [...]

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Artist Tip #14 – Don’t color outside of that line!

Don’t color outside of that line!
Seriously, just color outside of it to see what happens.
Next Week’s Tip – The truth behind the struggle
Last Weeks Tip
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Artists Tip #13 – Would you glue or tape it?

Would you glue or tape it?
Why tape it when you can glue it. Choose colorless, acid free and archival glues for your collage and art pieces.
Scotch tape is good for wrapping gifts. Masking tape adheres the edges of watercolor paper to a board when painting to keep it flat. Double sided, lined with aluminum, PH [...]

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Artists Tip #12 – How to dry paint faster

For Nyssa who has been patiently waiting one week for this tip.
How to dry paint faster
When you needed it yesterday, use a hairdryer or LESS water.
I have tested this with watercolor and acrylic mediums on both paper and wood panel. If you don’t want your paint to dry to fast in fear of cracks especially [...]

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Artist Tip #11 – Why you should never put your art supplies away

Why you should never put your art supplies away
If you put them away they will not be there when you need them. What good are art supplies when they are shoved in drawers or packed in boxes in a room you’ll never go into to create in?
Leave them out, open and in an area where [...]

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Artist Tip #10 – Why you should comment on art blogs

Why you should comment on art blogs
Because we need you
as much
as
you
need
us.
Next Week’s Tip – Why you should never put your art supplies away
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Artist Tip #9 – Where to find the best art supplies – a top five list

Where to find the best art supplies – a top five list
1. DickBlick – one of the largest retailers of art supplies online I am learning. I have yet to buy from them but will be soon as I can’t find what I need locally.
2. Your local flea market – great for found art objects, [...]

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Artist tip #8 – How to get good at drawing one thing

How to get good at drawing one thing
You take that one thing and draw it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and [...]

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Artist Tip #7 – What do you do with that dormant artwork piled in your closet?

So What do you do with that dormant artwork piled in your closet?
Here is a list of 10 possibilities
1. Give it away as a gift
2. Sell it on Etsy
3. Auction it off on Ebay
4. Cut it up and use it for collage purposes
5. Re-work it using that new paint!
6. …and finish that piece from 1982!
7. [...]

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Artist Tips will Return Next Wednesday

…as I was sniffing solvent based markers this week and didn’t quite figure out what to do with all that artwork in my closet.
Stay tuned.

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Artist Tip #6 – Why you should save your used Christmas wrapping paper

Artist Tip #6 – Why you should save your used Christmas wrapping paper
The obvious reason is to re-use the larger pieces next year when wrapping your 2008 Christmas gifts. And rather than throwing the smaller pieces out with the trash, consider them for creative collage purposes or as fire starter in your wood stove, furnace [...]

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Artist Tip #5 – How to Package Aunt Wilma’s Christmas Gift

Artist Tip #5 – How to Package Aunt Wilma’s Christmas Gift
Remember that eyeball you tore out? I bet you saved it! Go now and get your Aunt Wilma caricature with red rose collage and wrap it in red paper. Tie this with green ribbon. Next punch a hole through that saved eyeball. Using a little [...]

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Artist Tip #4 – How to make aunt Wilma happy now that you’ve made her mad

Artists Tip #4 – How to make aunt Wilma happy now that you’ve made her mad
Now that Aunt Wilma is flaming angry because you caricatured her face and ripped out one of her eyeballs paste a pretty paper red rose in place of the missing wrinkled third eyeball that you previously created from one unsightly [...]

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Artists Tip #3 – How to hide that unsightly pen line

Artists Tip #3 – How to hide that unsightly pen line
When you’ve drawn a line and it’s bad because you smudged it, drew the line too long, too short, gave aunt Wilma an extra eyeball or twitched from being startled from your rhythm by said aunt Wilma simply give her another eyeball. In other words [...]

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