Fine Arts Group
A group for ceramicists, painters, illustrators, sculptors, photographers and other fine art genre. Designed to link to art related lenses, arts specific groups and anything that might be of interest to anyone interested in art.
What is an artist?
Artist (ar'tist) n. 1. a) One who practices an art in which conception and execution are governed by imagination, style and taste. b) a person skilled in one of the fine arts c) a craftsman that executes his art with individual style. 2. Often their work is judged according to the culture and the attitude placed on art at the time. Although they may earn recognition during their lifetime, they are usually not recognized for their accomplishments until after death. 3. Lives a life of unstable economic means. 4. Many theories have been put forth regarding their creativity, the most common one being that it is inherent, although if not developed and tested will remain dormant. a) They seem to create during moods, often intense, mostly lasting only a short while. 5. They have a feeling of brotherhood with each other that is timeless. 6. Thought to be haphazard, having no sense of order, plan or direction, yet are known to be perfectionists when it comes to their own work. a) They make decisions on feeling rather than reason. b) Have problems with concentration. 7. They are stereotyped as mentally unbalanced. One artist cut off his ear in a passion of creativity combined with frustration about his art. It has not been determined whether their creativity has anything to do with this. 8. They are sensitive, aware and alert. 9. They are tolerated by society, which allows them to live in accordance with their own natures.
What this group is about, what it represents and
who is eligible to join.
Fine Arts Group is a lens created to showcase the work of fine artists who choose to express themselves in a visual medium. I love the written word but this group is not about that. It's great if you have tee-shirts and mugs for sale and I wish you the best in your endeavors, but this group is not about that either.Please note, aside from Associations, Competitions, Organizations & Venues only artists are eligible for inclusion in this lens. Third parties, such as agents, fans, galleries or webmasters will not be accepted.
Airbrush
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The Art of H.R. Giger
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This lens offers you a look at H.R. Giger's unique biomechanical art and how he's explored and expanded it throughout his career, including paintings, furniture design, movie designs (Alien, Species) and more. Also take a virtual visit to the Giger b...
Artists Who Blog
A list of artists who blog.Want to know what artists are thinking? Learn about how they go about creating? This list will direct you to an array of artists blogs.
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Worldwide Women Artists Who Blog
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Worldwide Women Artists is an international collective of women artists showing and selling our original art through the worldwide web. As women artists, we give birth to our ideas in a variety of styles and media. We embrace the diversity of each ot...
Associations, Competitions, Organizations & Venues
Support for the working artist
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EBSQ Self Representing Artists : Why we're here & why you should be too!
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EBSQ is an online artist community and portfolio site. Our easy-to-use tools empower artists to create a web presence for their art within minutes, allowing you to connect with other artists and art lovers world wide. Additionally, there are monthly...
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A Competition for Metalsmiths and Jewelers
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I have created this lens to reach as many metalsmiths, jewelers, silversmiths, goldsmiths, metal sculptors and blacksmiths all over the world as possible to tell them about the METAL Inclinations Exhibitions. www.smm-metalinclinations.org METAL Incl...
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Lancaster County Art Association
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The Lancaster County Art Association is located in Strasburg, Pennsylvania at 149 Precision Ave. The LCAA is the oldest arts organization in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1936 in the City of Lancaster. In the late nineties the LCA...
Ceramics
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Tara Robertson Pottery
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A committed stay-at-home mother and potter, Tara Robertson creates her unique artwork in her home studio. Her pottery is all hand-built, with vessels painstakingly formed from long coils or slabs of clay pinched together. A single vessel...
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May the Kiln Goddess Smile Upon You
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Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit. Here you will find a great collection of clay, clay art, and pottery related links, books, and other resources. What ever your clay interest, I am sure you will find some great discoveries. Have fun exploring. H...
Digital
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Savvyology - Poetry Gifts
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Just Pushing Pixels & Playing With Words Welcome to the poetry of Canadian artist and poet B.Y. Penman. This lens provides a glimpse of her poetry and merchandise available through online shopping at Cafepress and Zazzle.
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RedwinePhotoArt
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Explore the new Frontiers of the Digital Art world through the Colorful and Expressive work of PhotoArtist RUBY REDWINE. http://www.redwinephotoart.citymax.com
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Meaning of Red Roses
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Words or pictures have never fully encompassed the sheer beauty and grandeur of the red rose. The red rose is undeniably the most beautiful among all the roses, full blooded and rich. The incredibly beautiful Cleopatra used the red rose to carpet her...
Educational Links
- Art History Videos
- Art videos of Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt van Rijn, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Edouard Manet, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollack, Norman Rockwell, Franz Marc, Edvard Munch, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Georges Seurat, Odilon Redon and more. A work in progress.
- Sell More Art Online
Fantasy
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Fantasy Women Art by Anima
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Welcome to my lens where I feature a few of my fantasy art paintings of beautiful women. Be sure to vote for your favourite or sign my guestbook. Thanks for visiting!
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Fantasy Art Insights From A Fantasy Artist
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This lens is all about Fantasy Art and also How to draw fantasy art - a rough artists guide, and with some of my own fantasy art showing throughout I wanted to create a lens to celebrate the fantasy art genre because of it's inspi...
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Drawing Dark Demonic Art
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Are you a creative person?, I am and I love to design dark, demonic designs, and draw horror related fantasy art stuff, and with links to how to draw a demon and other demon products that inspire you or help me and you build what I am trying to creat...
Functional Art
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Artist Woodturning & Wood Lathe Work
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Welcome to TimberSong, the place to find beautiful hand turned wood bowls, plates and items for the home. These gifts of fine art or rustic bowls would be perfect to sell in rustic log cabin home stores. Great low prices direct from the artist! Mad...
General Fine Arts Lenses
Lenses about art in general.
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Oil Paintings
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Welcome to my Oil Paintings lens! This page helps you get started on painting your very first oil painting, as well as enlighten you about the basics of oil paints and the most popular method of painting today.
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Pre-Raphaelite Art: Legends, Lore, and Ladies
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THE LEGENDS - of King Arthur and the knights, of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Ophelia, of fairies, nymphs and magical beings. THE LORE - of Zeus and Apollo, Venus and Aphrodite, of all the richness of Greek mythology, from the heights of Mt. Olympus to...
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Artists in Residence (AiR)
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Artists in Residence (AiR) is the video library of the arts. AiR takes viewers into the studios of award-winning artists as they create their work and discuss the joys and challenges of pursuing a career in the arts. Visit AiR on the web at http://ww...
Illustrators
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Need a fun Gift for someone?
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Are you sick of staring at white walls all the time? Why not consider a Gicleè Print signed and numbered by Roberto Parada? Roberto Parada is a magazine illustrator who has worked for the likes of TIME, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Sports Illus...
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The road to god knows... by Von Allan
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The road to god knows... is the story of Marie, a teenage girl coming to grips with her Mom’s schizophrenia. There’s no handbook, no guide to help her deal with what life throws at her. As a result, she’s struggling to grow up fast;...
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Fine Art Prints and ACEOs From Bird Bones Gallery
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I am making this page to promote my Fine Art Prints and ACEOs which can be purchased at various sites on the internet, sites to which you will find links if you scroll down this page. I work mostly with pencil, conte crayon, charcoal, pastel, prisma...
Mixed-Media and Multi-Media Artists
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Mixed Media Paintings & Collage- the art of Paulette Insall
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My art is about the search for connection...to self, to like minded spirits, to family, and to God. I think the reason that most of my work depicts a sole woman is because these are the stories of my own personal search and the emotions they invoke w...
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The Art of Bernard Williams
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This lens will provide information about the artist and his work. Bernard currently lives and works in New York and Chicago. Bernard can be reached by email at bernardartist@aol.com.
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Paulette's Art
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Welcome to my Art Lens The reason for celebrating is I have two shows this month. I live smack dab in the middle of centarl California's wine counrty and this month there is a Zinfandel Festival. I will be showing my art at Pipestone Winery Saturday Ma...
Painters
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Watercolor Artist Paul Jackson
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A prolific and profound artist, Paul Jackson is one of America's greatest contemporary watercolorists. In all catagories, landscapes and cityscapes, portraits, architectural, still life and the just plain wonderous, Paul puts genuine spirit and lif...
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Torrie Smiley
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I am originally from West Texas, now residing and painting in the foothills of North Carolina. I am primarily a self taught artist who paints using oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pastel. I paint because I have to....I sell my work through online...
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Art By Linda
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An Idaho artist, who is inspired by the beauty of nature and wildlife. I started with pencil drawings as a young girl. Horses were always my favorite subjects, I loved the wildness and freedom of their beauty. I could sit and watch them for hours on...
...Animal Art
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Animal and Wildlife Art
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My love for animals seen through my artwork and many other great artist representing our great world of animals. My work consists of Acrylic paintings used on canvas ( looks like an oil painting) and also as a wash ( looks like a watercolor).&nbs...
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Wildlife Art
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Wildlife is my passion. I love animals, being out in nature, and painting wildlife. My favorite wildlife subjects are deer and elk but I also paint other large mammals and the occasional bird. My subjects, besides deer, have included the wolf, fox, l...
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Horse Art
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Horse Artists everywhere are constantly working to develop their craft. Please take a moment to check out some of the excellent artists profiled here.
...Historical
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Civil War Paintings
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I recently met some wonderful people who share a passion for Civil War Reenactment. I was delighted when they invited me to their wedding at Fort Stevens on the Oregon coast. They invited me to bring my paints and my camera. Unfortunately I couldn't...
...Landscapes
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Wildlife Art, Portraits and Landscapes by Angela Drysdale
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Having lived and travelled in many different African countries, I was induced to open a door to the continent by way of my art. The journey took me on an amazing safari across desert, through jungle and over open savannah, where I captured my passion...
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Original Art - Paintings, Collage, Pastels, etc.
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I've been creating most of my life, from drawing clowns with my mother's oil pastels when I was a child, to acrylic paintings and drawings when I was in school, to creating anything and everything every chance I get.. creating is to live, to find ano...
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Landscape Paintings by L. Diane Johnson
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Painting the land, sea or sky is my vocation, profession, passion and has been for over 30 years. The open landscape is the place for me and I have been there now, mostly on location for eons. Come travel with me through the eyes of painting God's ea...
...Florals
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Poppy Paintings by Sundell
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The poppy is one of the flowers I most love to paint and you will find a growing assortment of poppy paintings here as I continue adding them to this lens. I grow these beauties covering most of our two lots, so dawn in early summer is magical at my...
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Sunflower Paintings by Sundell
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I thoroughly delight in painting glorious summer sunflowers in rich butterscotch yellows and golds. I grow many of these flowers in my gardens for the goldfinches every year so I usually have plenty of sunflowers to paint. The summer of 2007 proved...
... Sumi-e
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Casey Shannon Studio Sumi-e Art
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"Your Treasure House is in yourself, it contains all you need" - Hui Hai 8th Century - my main goal and purpose for designing this lens, is to share with you contemporary Sumi-e art and my story, share Sumi-e techniques and resources, and hopefully o...
Photography
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Contemporary Fine Art Nature Photography in Black and White
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Through my photography I hope to inspire others to slow down and appreciate the beauty that is all around us and to help to preserve our natural and wild places. Please visit my full portfolio to view additional photographs and art work po...
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Photography By Terri Harper
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I am an artist and my main vehicle of expression is through the medium of photography. My camera is my paintbrush. I photograph anything and everything that catches my eye. I work very intuitively and many times see things in a very unique way. Often...
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Zoey Heath:The weekly experimentations of a unconventional photographer
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To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated. Jean-Luc Godard
Portraiture
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Celebrity Portrait Drawings
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This lens includes an introduction & YouTube link to a video portfolio.
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Original Modern Portrait Pop Art
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For more examples, please visit : http://www.shauno.ca Paintings that are currently available can be found at : http://shauno.etsy.com
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Pencil portraits drawn from photos
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I create pencil portraits based on photos my clients send me. Please feel free to browse the links to the different types of portraits I create, and let me know if I can help you with any questions! My Art Website
Printmaking
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Printmaking - all about techniques, tools, and artists
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I am a printmaker. You will find a lot of artists who are printmakers, and who are passionate about printmaking, and educating the wide world about printmaking arts. I am one of those artists. You will find on this lens information...
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Stamps, Ink & Paper - All About Rubber Stamping
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This lens is a collection of a little bit about everything you need to know to get started with the fine art of rubber stamping! Here you will find different tips, tricks and techniques to get your going. Just add stamps, ink and paper! Enjoy--and ha...
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m.Lee Fine Art
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I am a fine art printmaker living in Boston, Massachusetts with my husband and too many pets. My studio is in my home where I create each piece by hand. While I was in college I spent a lot of time experimenting with different artistic mediums. I dis...
Scratchboard Art
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Scratchboard Art
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Welcome to the Squidoo Lens for my website: DMD Scratchboard Gallery. You can find information about myself, Denise M. DesLauriers, as well as my scratchboard artwork. There is also access to my blog and other places online to view and purc...
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scraperboard/scratchboard
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Scraperboard is a wonderful medium to create very unique and stunning pictures. The original scraperboard is made from cardboard coated in white china clay with a thin layer of black indian ink on the top. The indian ink can be scraped away to reveal...
Sculptors
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Faerydae's Art
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This lens is dedicated to my artwork - in all it's forms! I've just started making ACEOs and ATCs and having a BLAST with that! They are a LOT of fun! I've also been sculpting using polmyer clays like Fimo, PuppenFimo, Kato, Prosculpt, and al...
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Ron Mueck
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Mueck's sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images.
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Bear Art: Beauty And The Beast
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Here you'll find Bear Art -- sculptures, photography, paintings, drawings, carvings -- all of Bears in all their glory. Also tips on naming sculptures, using photos as inspirations, and much more. I love bears. I devote so much time and energy into...
Body Art
Art you can wear
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Impulse of Delight Artisan Designer Jewellery, Handcrafted Designer Bags, Hand Dyed Silk Scarves, Hair Clips & Brooches
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I am an independent artisan jeweller and textile artist, living in the mountain resort town of Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. As a Whistler artist, my work is inspired by the natural beauty around me - richly saturated colours and curvaceo...
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Glass House Jewelry
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When did you first become interested in glass? I have always loved glass ever since I was young. The way is shimmers and catches the light. I have always had a love of the water as well. They have similar reflective properties. One of my favorite thi...
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Dichroic Fused Glass Jewelry
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Fused glass jewelry is created by taking layers of glass and fusing them together in a kiln. In the modules below I will describe the process in greater detail.
Tips & Tutorials, Schools & Workshops
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Creating Digital Landscapes
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You don't need to spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours learning expensive graphics software to create a realistic 3D digital landscape. My first attempt at creating a 3d image was with a program called Bryce. With this, I crea...
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The Art Market Lens - www.artmarketblog.com
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Art Market Analysis and Art Investment Advice with Nicholas Forrest from Art Market Blog http://www.artmarketblog.com
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Drawing techniques: using carbon, charcoal, and graphite.
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Hello and Welcome...I would first like to encourage you to visit my website and studio blog at Marsha Robinett Fine Art, where you will find dramatic fine art pencil drawings. I use predominately carbon pencil with accents of charcoal and graph...
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Plein Air Painting on Paros: Our Greek Island
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All that Greece has to offer combined with expert instruction. Workshops in oil and watercolour in the sun and atmosphere of a Greek isle--at affordable prices.


