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Contextualising Your Work: Many an artwork and artist has been separated from their peer group merely on the basis upon which they contextualise their work. In some cases two artists… [114 views in Dec]
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Wrong Hand Drawing: There is a tendency early on in the development of an artist to develop a restrictive style based partly upon the desire to copy more accomplished artists. This can… [44 views in Dec]
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What is Drawing?: Drawing has a number of primary functions that differ according to the intended outcome. Primarily, drawing is seen to be any form of marking a surface with a view to… [40 views in Dec]
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Landscape Painting for Beginners: The landscape has for centuries been a gauge not only of how man perceives the natural world around him visually but also of mankind’s impact upon… [36 views in Dec]
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Realist Painting and Drawing: A realist work of art is one in which real things, people or events are depicted as if they are real. The aim with realist drawing or painting is to… [32 views in Dec]
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Using Line for Drawing and Painting: Line is probably the element of drawing most familiar to people from an early age and is the building block for the development of drawing… [28 views in Dec]
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