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.
Airbrush
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The Art of H.R. Giger
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This lens will take 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.
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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Art Competitions: An Artist's Resource
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One way to get your art career established is by entering competitions. Even if you don't win, submitting your best work to carefully chosen art competitions will get your work in front of people who truly love art ~ and may garner a sale or commissi...
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EBSQ Self Representing Artists :: Who we are, why we're here, and why you should be too!
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EBSQ is an online art association whose members represent their own work to the public. Our mission is to foster an active community of independent artists, and to provide tools and services to bring our members greater exposure in the art market. EB...
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Worldwide Women Artists
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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 ea...
Ceramics
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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...
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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...
Digital
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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...
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Janeen Wassink, Digital Artist
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I'm probably the only Christian, vegetarian, vintage dress collecting, tarantula loving, taxidermist's daughter you'll ever meet. Definitely the only one who can honestly say she has lived in a van down by the river! I am also good at laughing easily...
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.
Fantasy
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Fantasy Art And Design
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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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Art by Sarah Pittman
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I'm a fairy and fantasy artist based in Cheshire in the UK, i work mainly with coloured pencils, although i can also be found using watercolours, watercolour pencils, acrylics, inks, and marker pens. Although i occassionally cover other topics and the...
General Fine Arts Lenses
Lenses about art in general.
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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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LINE art and design.
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I'm Cherdpong Sikkhajareon. I create my work under name LINE art and design, paint marker artist and designer. I also love taking photos. My blog's publishing my recently artworks, this is my blog here, And this is my collections of paintmarking in...
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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.
Illustrators
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Roger Dean
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Roger Dean is a British illustrator and architect best known for the distinctive album cover designs he created for rock bands such as YES, Uriah Heep and Asia. After creating some of the most-popular fantasy art of the 70s and 80s, spread inte...
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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;...
Mixed-Media and Multi-Media Artists
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Mixed Media Paintings
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Rip it up and paint is the stress free technique I use to create original watercolor/ mixed media paintings.
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Nicola Anthony - Sharing my artwork, my passion, my inspirations...
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I have an eye for detail. I see the potential in the small things, which I collect and sculpt into something complex, intricate and fascinating. For me the measure of an artwork is the amount of time it engages you for, and I aim to make work which i...
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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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The Art of Madelaine
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Welcome to the fine art and miniature paintings painted by me, Madelaine Fedorowich. I love painting many different things, but my main passion right now miniatures of birds and small still lifes. I typically use oils and watercolour...
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welcome to my art studio
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Welcome to my Art Studio. Where I usually produce a painting a day or more. I love hearing from other artists, and art lovers. I am a professional mid-career artist and have painted California city and landscape for many years. I have...
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Buffalo, New York Artist: Linda Munschauer Introduces Acrylic and Watercolor Paintings at 2006 Allentown Art Festival.
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Welcome to Lilly Gherkin's World Hi there! Let me introduce myself. You may call me Linda. I am twenty-seven years old. I go to college. I am "somewhat" of a proffesional student. And a full-time new mom. LILLY GHERKIN is a caric...
...Animal Art
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Dog Art
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Hello! Welcome to my dog art lens! I love to paint animals and I especially love to paint dogs. Pure breed dog or mutts - each one is cute and looks beautiful to me. I turned some of my dog paintings into designs and I would like to sh...
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Horse art of Donna Ridgway
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Color and reality, serenity and light. Those are elements I like to include in my paintings. Let's talk about color. I like lots of it and complementary schemes are my favorites. Most of the time, I like my horses to look real...
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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.
...Landscapes
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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...
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Jennifer Young's Lens on Landscape Painting
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I am a painter from Virginia. I am passionate about landscape painting, and this lens is about creating landscape paintings both in the studio and en plein air. My primary medium is oil paint, and I am happy to share tips about oil painting...
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My Rivertown Landscapes
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Here are some of my paintings which reflect my fascination and love for the Hudson River and it's lore and history.
...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 two lots, so dawn in early summer is magical at my hou...
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Sunflower Paintings by Sundell
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I just love painting glorious summer sunflowers in rich butterscotch yellows and golds. I grow a lot of these flowers in my gardens for the goldfinches every year so I usually have plenty of sunflowers to paint. Last year was difficult because for t...
Photography
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Ohio Artist / Photographer Eva Barkman's Digital Art Studio
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I love to create! I'm a mixed media artist and photographer and what better way to create than to combined the two and get something new and different. With digital art, there are really many possibilities! Of course...
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Nature Photography
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The sounds of birds chirping in the woods, the laughing brook, and the rustling of leaves from a soft April breeze fills my soul with warmth and reduces time to a meaningless set of digits on a cell phone buried deep in my pack. No photograph c...
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Migulski Art Gallery
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Visit my Art Gallery Photo Gallery Illustration Gallery Painting Gallery Graphic Design Gallery
Portraiture
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Chicago artist champions women and women's issues
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Faces intrigue me. If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then what is the face? Perhaps faces are the windows to the world -- a connection to humanity. -- Andrea Harris (self-portrait) When you first view the portaits in Chicago artist A...
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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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Celebrity Portrait Drawings
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This lens includes an introduction & YouTube link to a video portfolio.
Printmaking
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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...
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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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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...
Scratchboard Art
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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...
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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...
Sculptors
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Alaskan Native Fine Art
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With this lens I will strive to show how, as an Alaskan Native artist. I share my culture through my art, and how other Native artists do the same. The early part of my youth was spent in Alaska. It was there, and through my Yupik family, that I lea...
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Sculpture Video Showcase
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As a sculptor, I find viewing sculpture videos inspiring and motivating. Here, I'll showcase sculpture videos that display either beautiful sculptures or the creation of pieces of art. They may be educational, inspiring or just plain creative. I'll a...
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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 been recently exploring sculpting using polmyer clays like Fimo, PuppenFimo, Kato, Prosculpt, and also Aves Apoxie, which has been SO amazing for me! I can't wait to try Paverpol and...
Body Art
Art you can wear
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Artistic Clothing, Original and Custom
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my clothing are original and an extension for my love of art...check out my myspace website for more on my artwork[http://myspace.com/karina_with_a_k] i hope you love my artwork as much as i do <3
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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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Setting Dichroic Glass in Art Clay Silver, Precious Metal Clay, ACS, PMC, Metal Clay
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I love the shimmer & sparkle of fused dichroic glass. I also love the cool sheen of pure silver. When the two are combined, it's truly a match made in heaven. The color and sparkle of the glass adds dramatic impact to the silver. The silver...
Tips & Tutorials
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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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How to overcome creative blocks
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For those of us that have an artistic calling, it's not always easy to reconcile the need to make a living with a creative life. I have struggled with this issue for several years now, having spent the last 10+ years of my life working in various mar...
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Designing for greeting cards
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Greeting cards are big, big, business, despite the coming of ecards. If you have ever hand drawn a card for your friends or family, you are in effect a card designer. However making money or better still a living, illustrating greeting cards can be a...
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Acrylic Painting Instructions, Lessons & Resources
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Welcome to my lens on acrylic painting. Here you will find free acrylic painting lessons and tips as well as great resources for beginners. Enjoy your stay and be sure to check back often.

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