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Still-life paintings don't have to be boring. Here's how an award-winning painter completes one using everyday objects, step by step.

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Want to learn how to paint the perfect watercolor landscape? This crash course on landscape composition and design helps build a solid practice of getting the initial look right for any landscape painting.

Phi Divine Proportion and the Golden Spiral Pleasing shapes, interesting coincidences, existential ramifications, and some mathematics reality... using this unique set of mathematical concepts can create an innate linear balance when used formally for composing your artwork. This is one of those weird places where science interacts with visual aesthetics, philosophy, and the meaning of life. Maybe. : Phi = 1.618033988749895... The Golden Number, prounounced "fi" as in "fly." In the Golden Rectangle with A as the height and B as the width, the ratio reveals itself: A is to B as B is to the sum of A and...

Andrew Wyeth's reputation has centered around watercolors and egg tempera paintings such as "Christina's World". Painted in 1948 and later purchased by the Museum of Modern Art, this is one of the most recognized paintings in American art. Egg Tempera Techniques - by Michael Bergt Egg tempera is a fast drying medium that is fluid by nature and must be applied thinly in semi-opaque and transparent layers. The binding qualities of the egg does not allow for impasto painting. Because of tempera's fluid, fast drying property, it is best suited for a more linear style rather than the thick, brushy...

Summer is all about fun, color, and carefree activities. Here's one great way to chill and get some painting practice - painting colorful watercolor popsicles!

American Watercolor Master Dong Kingman left the world a legacy of visual happiness. His unique role in the development of American art through the medium of watercolor over the past half-century involved a thorough intertwining of Eastern and Western artistic sensibilities that inspired peers on both coasts to look through new eyes. His colorful, ofttimes whimsical, paintings fused studied elements of realism, cubism, abstract, surrealism, and impressionism into joyous displays of imagination uniquely constructed on the fly, all based on en plein air paintings and sketches made on location all around the world.   Blue Moon (1942) Watercolor © Dong...