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A Collection of the Best Tutorials and Art-related Lenses on Squidoo

Squidoo has a great many lenses reviewing and explaining different aspects of art - but the trick is often finding them. So welcome to my still-in-progress lens - always in progress - collecting some of the many wonderful tutorials and reviews of art programs, drawing techniques and products, galleries and everything else artistic here on Squidoo.

I'm currently focusing on image related art - painting, drawing and photography, both digital and traditional. I've read each lens - they're all actually useful and some are amazing; if there's an area with too many I've tried to pick the best. If there's nothing here on a subject then it means I couldn't find a good one or you need to write one.

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Artist Resources, Colour, Composition & Style "How To Draw A..." Tutorials Traditional Art Photography Digital Art Promotion and Marketing Artists on Squidoo

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Contents at a Glance

  1. Artists on Squidoo
  2. Resources For The Artist
  3. Design and Composition
  4. Colour
  5. Drawing and Sketching: How to Draw a...
  6. How to Draw a...
  7. More How To Draw Tutorials
  8. Drawing and Sketching: People and Realism
  9. Drawing and Sketching: Styles, Manga and Cartoons
  10. Drawing Materials: Pencils, Charcoal and Graphite
  11. Traditional Art Products: Pencils, pastels et al.
  12. Paint: Watercolours, Acrylics and Oils
  13. Painting: Canvases and Textures
  14. Colouring Pages
  15. Photography
  16. Are You A Photographer?
  17. Landscape, Sea and Sky Photography
  18. Wildlife Photography
  19. Photography: Stock and Selling Your Photos
  20. Digital Art
  21. Favourite program?
  1. Digital Art Programs: Corel Painter and Gimp
  2. Digital Art Painting Programs: ArtRage
  3. Digital Art Programs:Photoshop
  4. Digital Art Programs: Photoshop
  5. Digital Art: Photoshop Brushes
  6. Digital Art: Graphics Tablets
  7. Art Online: Image processing and Resizing
  8. Digital Art: How To Print Your Images
  9. Best Online Art Site?
  10. Promotion and Marketing for Artists
  11. Forums and Communities
  12. Online Galleries, Shops and Print On Demand Stores
  13. Creativity and Inspiration
  14. Art Collections
  15. Copyright and Art Theft
  16. Squidoo Groups
  17. Add Your Favourite Art Lens!
  18. Comments!
  19. About the Lensmaster

Resources For The Artist

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Design and Composition

Building and Arranging the Elements of Pictures

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Colour

Or Color!

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Creativity and Inspiration

Get ideas

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Art Movements and Styles

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Drawing and Sketching: Styles, Manga and Cartoons

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Manga on Flickr

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It's A Guestbook! And Yet Not The End!

Explore further or comment - how will you decide?


Artist Resources, Colour, Composition & Style
How To Draw A...
Traditional Art
Photography
Digital Art
Promotion and Marketing
Artists on Squidoo



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  • lbrummer Aug 22, 2011 @ 9:50 am | delete
    Nice lens, lots of good information. Thanks.
  • Chinajoy Dec 26, 2010 @ 8:59 am | delete
    Great collection of resources for art tutorials....thanks.
  • tagsforkids Oct 29, 2010 @ 3:25 pm | delete
    A great collection of art, thanks!
  • Kitsune64 Sep 8, 2010 @ 1:06 pm | delete
    This is a fantastic collection of lenses! I look forward to coming back and exploring more each time. Nice job!
  • JaguarJulie May 8, 2010 @ 8:17 am | delete
    Oh ... by the way, I wanted to contact you directly, but I see you have not turned on your contact link ... the traveling squid will be venturing out of Australia and on to New Zealand. You are the only lensmaster currently on the list, can you believe that? to represent New Zealand. Would you please be so kind as to contact me and provide your postal address mailing info? Thank you!
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How To Draw A...

Table of Contents

  1. Drawing and Sketching: How to Draw a...
  2. How to Draw a...
  3. More How To Draw Tutorials
  4. Drawing and Sketching: People and Realism
  5. Doodles and Zentangles
  6. Zentangles on Flickr
  7. Colouring Pages
  8. Use This Guestbook - or Click To Another Page

Drawing and Sketching: How to Draw a...

How to Draw Tutorials

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How to Draw a...

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More How To Draw Tutorials

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Drawing and Sketching: People and Realism

References For Drawing Figures and Portraits

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Doodles and Zentangles

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Zentangles on Flickr

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Colouring Pages

Lens with pictures to download and colour!

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Use This Guestbook - or Click To Another Page

Find what you were after?


Artist Resources, Colour, Composition & Style
How To Draw A...
Traditional Art
Photography
Digital Art
Promotion and Marketing
Artists on Squidoo



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Table of Contents

  1. Drawing Materials: Pencils, Charcoal and Graphite
  2. Traditional Art Products: Pencils, pastels et al.
  4. Oil Paintings
  5. Paint: Watercolours, Acrylics and Oils
  6. Watercolour Art
  7. Painting: Canvases, Textures and Framing
  8. Have You Drawn Any Conclusions Yet?

Drawing Materials: Pencils, Charcoal and Graphite

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Traditional Art Products: Pencils, pastels et al.

Using Different Traditional Materials

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Watercolour pencils and oil pastels

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Oil Paintings

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Paint: Watercolours, Acrylics and Oils

Painting Tutorials

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Watercolour Art

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Painting: Canvases, Textures and Framing

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Have You Drawn Any Conclusions Yet?

Or do you need to keep researching?


Artist Resources, Colour, Composition & Style
How To Draw A...
Traditional Art
Photography
Digital Art
Promotion and Marketing
Artists on Squidoo



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Table of Contents

  1. Are You A Photographer?
  2. Sunset Photos
  3. Unusual Photographic Techniques
  4. Photos of Painting With Light
  5. Landscape, Sea and Sky Photography
  6. Landscape Photos
  7. Wildlife Photography
  8. Wildlife Photos
  9. Photography: Stock and Selling Your Photos
  10. Leave Me A Snapshot Impression... or Read On

Photography

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Are You A Photographer?

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Sunset Photos

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Unusual Photographic Techniques

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Photos of Painting With Light

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Landscape, Sea and Sky Photography

Sunsets, Waterfalls and Rolling Hills

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Landscape Photos

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Wildlife Photography

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Wildlife Photos

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Photography: Stock and Selling Your Photos

Stock Photos and

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Leave Me A Snapshot Impression... or Read On


Artist Resources, Colour, Composition & Style
How To Draw A...
Traditional Art
Photography
Digital Art
Promotion and Marketing
Artists on Squidoo



Please check out the tabs along the top for the other pages as well!

  • RocklawnArts Nov 1, 2011 @ 3:50 pm | delete
    Wow, so much info!
  • kennysteve Oct 26, 2011 @ 3:25 am | delete
    wow so much content... so nice to see people still trying to do good things for others.
    i am a newer artist trying to make a go at it.
    http://stoicart-realismart.com/
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Table of Contents

  1. Favourite program?
  2. Debates! Photoshop Versus...
  3. Digital Art - Pictures!
  4. Digital Art: Graphics Tablets
  5. Digital Art Painting Programs: ArtRage
  6. ArtRage Pictures
  7. ArtRage 3
  8. Digital Art Programs: Corel Painter and Paint Shop Pro
  9. Digital Art Programs:Photoshop
  10. Photoshopped
  11. Digital Art Programs: Photoshop
  12. Digital Art: Photoshop Brushes
  13. GIMP
  14. Pictures That Used GIMP
  15. Comment Here or Keep Reading

Digital Art

Digital Painting and Art Programs

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Favourite program?

Alright then - there are a lot of programs out there, some free, some not, some pretty, some easy to use, some functional, some horrendous... but what's the best?



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Debates! Photoshop Versus...

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Digital Art - Pictures!

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Digital Art: Graphics Tablets

Graphics Tablet Reviews and Tips

Of course, that ever-necessay tool for the digital artist...
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Digital Art Painting Programs: ArtRage

ArtRage 2.5 Reviews, Tutorials and Resources

These are all my lenses - because I seem to be the only one writing about ArtRage!





I also am happy to take questions in this forum thread on my DeviantART
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ArtRage Pictures

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ArtRage 3

Tutorials, Questions and Answers about ArtRage 3

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Digital Art Programs: Corel Painter and Paint Shop Pro

Program Reviews

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Digital Art Programs:Photoshop

Getting Started With Photoshop

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Photoshopped

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Digital Art Programs: Photoshop

Photoshop Reviews and Tutorials

Quite a lot on Squidoo about Photoshop - I've picked the best I coud find.
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Digital Art: Photoshop Brushes

Brushes to Download and Paint With

And of course a collection of lenses with either brushes, or links to more.
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GIMP

GIMP is a free program that more or less equals Photoshop in capability - it can be a pain to figure out for newbies though.
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Pictures That Used GIMP

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Comment Here or Keep Reading

Are you feeling creative yet?


Artist Resources, Colour, Composition & Style
How To Draw A...
Traditional Art
Photography
Digital Art
Promotion and Marketing
Artists on Squidoo



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Promotion and Marketing

Table of Contents

  1. Watercolour Art
  2. Art Online: Image processing and Resizing
  3. How To Print, Frame and Display Your Images
  4. Best Online Art Site?
  5. Promotion and Marketing for Artists
  6. Forums and Communities
  7. Online Galleries, Shops and Print On Demand Stores
  8. Copyright and Art Theft
  9. Comment or Keep Reading

Art Online: Image processing and Resizing

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How To Print, Frame and Display Your Images

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Best Online Art Site?

Where's the best place to upload your art?

RedBubble, DeviantART, Flickr, Photobucket, Artician, Elfwood, PaperDemon, RedGage...
Just a handful of the many sites where one can upload one's artwork - not even touching on the Print on Demand sites such as Zazzle and CafePress!

It's hard enough to keep up with one site, let alone try and stay active on all of them, so which is your favourite? Mine is DeviantART - sure, I don't earn much, but it's easy to use and talk to people, you get a lot of exposure if you're reasonably active (and the potential audience is larger) - and while you don't necessarily get a large amount of useful feedback, you get a lot.

Which is the better art site/community/gallery?

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DeviantART

MiaBellezza says:

Indubitably DeviantArt is the best online art site! I admire Deviant artists from afar, in an amorous ogling kind of way LOL, and hope to someday join the community, once I find the time. Never heard of Imagekind, Artician, PaperDemon, RedBubble but will check them all it out. Flynn are you Canadian, eh? I am.

Dreamzanstuff says:

It's got to be deviant art I suppose. I heven't come across a more popular one anyway.

dancerene says:

I have only used DeviantArt, so, I can't compare and say that it's the best. But I love it because I find many many many many (hope it's not too spammy?) talented artists there.

The people there are generally friendly and gentle with their feedback.

NOT DeviantART!

mysticmama says:

I use both Deviant Art & Imagekind...I like imagekind a little better for ease of use.

 

Promotion and Marketing for Artists

Getting Noticed. Getting Paid!

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Forums and Communities

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Online Galleries, Shops and Print On Demand Stores

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Copyright and Art Theft

Lenses about copyright, your rights, and keeping track of your artwork

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Comment or Keep Reading


Artist Resources, Colour, Composition & Style
How To Draw A...
Traditional Art
Photography
Digital Art
Promotion and Marketing
Artists on Squidoo



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Squidoo Artists

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  1. Artists on Squidoo
  2. Squidoo Graphics
  3. Squid Pictures
  4. Squidoo Groups
  5. Art Collections and Artist's Pages
  8. Add Your Favourite Art Lens!
  9. Comments!
  10. About the Lensmaster

Artists on Squidoo

Lensmasters with Art Lenses

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.


Jules Feiffer





This cycles through randomly, so come back and find someone new!


Most of these people have written lenses included elsewhere on this page, all have lenses showing off their artwork.

Squidoo Graphics

Finding art to put ON your lenses!

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Squid Pictures

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Squidoo Groups

Find art groups on Squidoo

I do not guarantee these will
a) work
b) continue after the changeover
c) be worth joining

But Groups are such a mess right now that I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt.
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Art Collections and Artist's Pages

Lenses Showcasing Some Wonderful Art

The pages are collections of art worth checking out!
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More Artist Lenses

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Add Your Favourite Art Lens!

Help me find more resources.

Feel free to add your favourites here, and if I like them, I'll add them to the main lens!

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The Horse Gift Mural-Le Cadeau Du Cheval

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Horse and Animal Miniature Art by Delia

I have been painting miniature paintings for over more...1 point

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Odilon Redon

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Russian woodcuts of Star Wars and Harry Potter in Old Church Slavonic? Lubki!

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The paintings of Jane Filer

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Michel Nedjar and his Purim Puppets

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The paintings of Mark Chandler

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Zentangle and Cat's Cradle

You don't have to be a trained artist to be an &qu more...0 points

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Greekgeek's 3D Computer Art

Amateur Bryce 3D Art by a hobbyist.0 points

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Fine Art Photography: Birds on Bright Water

I'm an artist, albeit an artist with a camera.One more...0 points

Comments!

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  • RocklawnArts Nov 1, 2011 @ 3:53 pm | delete
    Great resource, thank you!
  • JoyfulPamela Feb 25, 2010 @ 2:06 pm | delete
    Wow ~ this is a tremendous resources for anyone interested in art! Thank you for sharing these fantastic lenses. :D
  • WildFacesGallery Feb 6, 2010 @ 8:19 pm | delete
    Thanks so much for adding my latest. :)
  • Levitah Feb 1, 2010 @ 8:52 pm | delete
    Awesome work!
    Marking this as a favorite for sure, I'll be back!
  • Heather426 Feb 1, 2010 @ 6:49 pm | delete
    fantastic lens!
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