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By Ellene Breedlove Davis

Mapping your painting is a habit that reinforces information you already know!

As an artist, you already know that most objects can be reduced broadly into three tone masses, the light (including the high light,) the half tones and shadows. The habit of reducing objects into a simple equation of three tones, as a foundation on which to build a complex painting, should be sought out early.

Try this simple exercise…(you can do this mass drawing with the brush)

1) Select a simple object

2) Place it in a strong light and shade

3) Use artificial light

4) Have the light coming from either the right or left hand, but not from in front

5) Set the light so that the tone of the cast shadow comes about equal to the half tones.

Using charcoal, outline the light and dark masses. Note the shapes of shadows very carefully, taking great care that the shapes are blocked in proportionate to each other. The drawing will be done with a brush full of paint.

Fix the charcoal well by spraying with a spray diffuser.

Using raw umber and white (oil paint), mix up a tone that you think is equal to the half tones of the cast shadow before you.

Extreme care should be taken in matching this tone.

Now scumble this with a big brush, equally over the entire canvas (or whatever you are making your study on.)

If the paint is too stiff to go on thinly, mix it with just a tiny bit of oil. Do not use turpentine.

The technique to scumble is to rub the color into the canvas, working the brush from side to side rapidly, and laying in just the tiniest solid tone that will cover the surface. If this is done properly, and your drawing is well fixed, you will be able to see through the paint.

Practice this technique to help take your paintings to the next level

Ellene Breedlove Davis is an artist of 30+ years, an oils and watercolor teacher for about 15 of those years.

I would be delighted to answer your questions and to read or hear your comments. You will receive an answer within 24 hours or less.

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By C Goldsby

Now art selling online seems to be that much harder then sell other products and I have been wondering for sometime why that is. I have written this article to get my thoughts on the subject out there to the world. Now the main reason it’s hard to sell art is your market is small very small only about 5% (approx.) of the population invest in art, much small then other sectors. For this reason you need to be good at what you do if you are going to make it. I have put this article together to help you through a 12 points to take you from zero to hero online art seller. I plan to right more articles on this topic to give you more info and will try and keep this concise.

1. Define keywords [1-5 hours]

If you are going to sell art on the web then you are going to nee traffic, don’t think that because you have a blog or website that you are going to have people come and see your art. What you need to do it target keywords. These keywords should not have to much competition and should have plenty of traffic. These tools will help you do that Google search and Google trends. I will write and article to explain how to use these tool so watch this space.

2. Write better artwork descriptions [5 minutes]

When selling online over 65% of your traffic will come from search engines, for this reason and because it makes sense you have to have a good title. Ideal is 4-10 words will think of titles try and add your keywords if possible.

3. Be more social [20-40 minutes per site]

Social networking has taken over the internet the last few years so much so that it now right up in the top three reasons for a person to use the internet. For this reason you must take advantage of this and embrace the technology. There are MANY social networking site you can use, and a few ways you can use these. In short you can:- start a page/group/feed on a social networking site, submit URLs, submit RSS and more. I could write a full article on this subject alone and probably will soon. For a place to submit to a number of social sites try: socialmarker.

4. Start a portfolio site on existing art website [1-5 hours work]

The advantage of doing this is you will have quality traffic come your way or at lest getting close to your page. The problem is many of these will charge you, ether for a set up and monthly fee or a fee for each piece of art you sell. I will do a follow up on this and give you a full list of options out there with advantages/disadvantages and cost.

5. Start an art blog/mini blog [1-10 hours work]

This step you might well have done already but if not why not? A blog is a place for you to show, sell and advertise your art all with its own URL. There are a number of blogging platforms out there and I am not going to argue which one is best I have tried them all and they all have the advantage and disadvantage. The most well known ones are Blogger, WordPress and Typepad.

6. Start producing content [1-2 hours per copy]

There is no point having a blog and not having content on it. Clearly you need to have your art but also you need to have copy/text something that interests your readers. Writing copy is in itself an art but don’t get to hung up on that and try and produce the best copy you can. Look around you there is copy on every website, printed document, advert you see look at the techniques they use. So how do I know what to write about I hear you saying. Well there are ways to approach writing content, you can do it on a personal level talking about yourself and what you are up to, you can talk on a commercial level selling your work with words, you can an information source/authority source were by you inform about what other people /artist /blogs /business are up to.

7. Submit your RSS feed and blog [10-30 minutes per submission]

There is many hundreds even thousands of directories out there which you can advertise on, but for now I want to focus on blog directories and RSS submitting. Blog directories only list blogs which makes them ideal for artist as many already have a blog. RSS feed submission is much like blog submission and can often be done in the same directories as blog submission. The advantage of RSS submission is you often don’t have to sign up for an account to submit saving you time. But don’t read that as a call to tell you to rush blog submissions. You are better of making sure all the information is submitted correctly and that all is in order rather than submitting some half a**ed job that you would be embarrassed of if you saw it latter; besides this submission will lead directly to you.

8. Create an email newsletter for art lovers [1-2 hours]

Once you have a web presence you need to start to communicate with your potential customers, one way to do that is to use a newsletters, this can then be send via email, RSS, or social networks to get it to your reader.

9. Advertise your art website (in print) [time and money]

When people are online they can very easier forget about the real world, but hello we all live in the real world so don’t forget us. There are a number of printed mediums you can use and a number of ways to get that advert out there to potential customers. Be it cards, fliers, brochures, magazine adds, posts etc. Your budget should be the only thing constraining you here. Don’t forget to add your blog adds.

10. Team up with other artists [dependent]

When you are starting out on your own it can be and will be a lot of work to get yourself out there. One way to make life easier is to team up with other artist. There are a number of ways you can do this, you can share a website/blog you can link to each others blog forming a community. you can give your community an identity and all help to sell it. Many hands make light work.

11. Stick to it for at least 6 months [200-600 hours]

Don’t think you are going to put a weeks work in and all will be fine, be realistic there are a number of artist out there and the web is a competitive place. You are going to have to work hard and stick to it for 6 months. Although the web moves every fast establishing a blog will take minimum of 6 months before you have the traffic you require.

12. Wanting more

So you have a blog and have traffic but you want more! So you have money now and don’t mind sending a little get you more traffic the most obvious options that come to mind are adwords, Affiliate program, paid links, advertising. Again I could write allot on this section and I am sure that are allot of companies out there that would like to get there name mentioned here.

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So you are an artist… what now? There are millions of people who know how to draw, paint, sculpt… How do you set yourself apart from them? Hmmm… Good question. Do you want to make money from your creations but have no idea where to start? Yep, I know the feeling. By the way, thank you for stopping my my site and checking out what I have to offer. Before you get cynical or start thinking negative thoughts like “Oh boy, here we go, another site selling something…” Take a second to read what I have to say. Sometimes it only takes a couple of words to change someone’s life. This could change yours in the same way. Do yourself a favor and read on for a bit. You have nothing to lose.

I want to show you how to effectively sell your art online. Yes, you too can be a paid artist. There are some artists making a killing online. You can be one of them! Sell art online? YES! There’s nothing like that first online sale of your art work. So many artists sit at home and ask themselves: “Where do I make money selling my art work?” There are artists who already know the answer to that. Smart and savvy artists are selling art online and making good money. You can too! Sure you can go ahead and jump right in with no knowledge of the environment, but that could be your worst mistake. Why not go at it armed with the knowledge of what successful artists are doing? Read on and you too can follow the footsteps of the artists out there who are making it as full-time, paid artists.

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By Anna Meenaghan

Canvas art presents itself here, there and far and wide now, but any way you in fact regard it, it is continually fascinating. You simply want to take a look at some of the works actually being produced on it to realise that.

They time and again are remarkable, mind blowing in truth. Such great works seem to be able to explode from a blank canvas, varying so greatly in what they give out. With some canvas art creating a sensation of intense warmth, others might be spine chilling, or else in certain scenarios you just encounter a sensation of calming seclusion.

One more contemporary style is using canvas art along with actual photographs, whereby you can now have these straightforwardly printed on to a canvas. These at the moment happen to be rather fashionable and can be somewhat a personalized piece to let somebody have or obtain.

More remarkable for me nevertheless in all probability, is  which uses bits and pieces other than paint, although in some instances, also too are incorporating these with the paint itself, to make up the completed composition.

If we basically explore the numerous assorted types of paint to be had in your area art stockists, there is so much for us to choose from. To be precise besides the acrylics, poster paint, oils, gouache, acquarels, water colours etc.

It doesn’t truly have to end there, you in addition have the collection of assorted effects which can be used too, which are used to create the different textures we observe on present day art. Sand, stone, flakes, crackle paint, to refer to merely a few.

These can only be stimulating, and a bonus too, for creative artists to dabble and experiment with, to bring about stunning effects for their art. Aside from this, artists often use any number of items to realize their final picture. In this fashion they are so ingenious, using things like metal, cardboard, synthetic, ridged paper, tissue, fur, whatsoever it takes to bring about their canvas art to life!

Thus now and then it is a couple of things used, other times the art shaped can be more of a collage. Collages moreover, are regularly mounted on top of canvas and with these you find felt, buttons, wool, string, fabrics etc. are attached to make up the canvas art.

There again another form of canvas art that we have are wall hangings in Hessian fabric, canvas, or calico. Designs on these can be hand painted, rubber stamped on, screen printed or even stitched or embroidered on.

These often come with woolen tassels decoration at the foot of them, or even dangling beads. In other cases the threads to the canvas have been pulled away at the edgings to give a kind of ragged and fringed effect to the completed canvas art.

Canvas art can what’s more be applied in related ways to cushions, bedhead covers, and for various other valuable purposes. I can simply state we are fortunate to receive so much diversity at our fingertips in the present day!

If you liked this guide then you can discover many more at the authors online interactive art community. In fact, Anna Meenaghan provides not just articles there but anything art related from abstract paintings all the way through to realism and also a place where artists & art enthusiasts alike have a meeting point.

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By Tia Marks

Why original art? Why not a poster? There are many reasons. The space that you live in and work in is important to you and those who visit you. You can improve the look and feel of those spaces with real, original artworks.

Many people buy a copy of a poster - which nowadays may be called a “litho”, or an “art litho”, etc. Many people even believe they will save some money decorating their homes, condos, offices with posters. The people who buy these posters are buying a copy of a copy of a well-known popular work. The original work was usually created years ago by a now well-known artist.

These posters are appreciated both for the image and as a sort of logo that represents a body of work, period, or school that the buyer sees as a personal favorite. While there is nothing wrong with this per se, it is certainly not as much a personal statement as the buying of an original work.

Posters and giclee’s (a textured copy of a poster on canvas) also offer less ambience and presence than original works of art. Certainly some copies are better than others - but the copy always loses many of the properties of the original work.

Very few can afford a Van Gogh, Monet, or Renoir unless they buy a poster copy of those works. There is a difference between listening to music on the radio or a CD and being present during a performance by living musicians. This difference is the same for visual art. After you have seen some Van Goghs and Monets you know it’s different than looking at copies. An original artwork appears to have more intensity, it has textural properties and it has a physical presence among other things that a poster cannot attain.

Frame shops can put a poster into a decorator moulding, add a matte, etc. - which is becoming very expensive - to display the poster. It is now a well-displayed poster, for which you have spent $50-500 to display.

There are many so-called “limited edition fine art prints - signed by the artist and numbered” that are sold under the pretense that they will probably appreciate in value. You have only to check Ebay and garage sales to see that at least 99.9% of these are next to worthless. These “fine art prints” are originally priced anywhere from $50-1000. These are possibly the worst investment ever sold.

Buying orignal artworks need not be expensive. The artists of today are turning out a vast array of beautiful pieces in every medium. These works of art do not have to be purchased through the highest priced galleries either.

Many artists represent themselves or sell through reasonably priced galleries. There are also art auctions, charity art exhibits, art festivals, and many local artist groups that have creative, journeyman artists offering amazing values.

The prices of original artworks can be very negotiable. This depends of the artist, dealer or broker to whom you are talking. Many of my friends make it a point to buy directly from artists that they can talk with, possibly befriend. Others get direction from publications or a particular art dealer that they trust.

Display of original works costs about the same as for posters, possibly less is the frame is part of the purchase or the canvas is gallery wrapped so that there is no need for a frame.

Countless artists that I have spoken to have original works available that they will sell for $30-1000. Most people I speak with are able to find excellent values for an average of $400 per piece. And, there is a real possibility that these originals will appreciate in value. But I am writing about this in a different article.

So, you can do the math, is a poster in a frame (with little chance of appreciation) a better value than an original. Be a real art buyer! Shop for beautiful, well-executed, original works by serious, living artists with whom you can negotiate good prices.

Tia Marks

Tia Marks is the Executive-Editor of Contemporary Art Gallery - The Online Magazine for Trends in the Visual Arts. CAG specializes in abstract painting, artist interviews, exhibitions, sculpture, collage, ceramics, prints, jewelry, essays, and art world announcements.

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I basically need a list of artists that have drawn or painted any autumn landscapes. Also paintings of fallen leaves or individual autumn trees would be helpful.

By the way I only want the names of well known artists such as the likes of Monet, Constable, Van Gogh etc Basically artists that are not alive today.

I’ve also asked some other art related questions, look at my profile and my questions to find them, your help answering any of them would be great.

Thomas kinkade paints everything,,but he is still alive.

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