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 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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EBSQ Self Representing Artists :: Who we are, why we're here, and why you should be too!
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EBSQ is a creative space that provides art marketing tools and serves as a hub for the self rep and indie artist community. Join our artists, photographers, and crafters here at the place to see and be seen since 2000.
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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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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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The Stamp Store
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My mother is Digital Artist who creates a wide variety of products including Greeting Cards, Stamps, T-Shirts and Posters. So take a look around and see what she has to offer.
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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.
Fantasy
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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...
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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...
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.
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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Women Artists I Admire
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The title says it all. But there's more to this lens than admiration. Various modules are here to hopefully encourage, enlighten and educate the reader. Thanks for stopping by. If you would like your lens or site to be included here, please con...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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Bold Big & Beautiful Art
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This lens is about my art and anything that entices me that is art related. I am hoping this will drive more traffic to my original art shop. I am a stay at home mom of three and attempting to make a successful business off the art that I...
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Sylvia Outlaw original art and more
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My heart and soul goes into each and every painting. I have been asked by many, "What is your style?" I can only reply, "My own unique style." I do not copy the old style, modern or old masters. I paint what I see in my dreams or w...
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Colorful, original art by Hollie Leffel
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This lens if full of colorful artwork and a splash of poetry. Mostly mine, but if you scroll down you can find some great artwork through ebay. :) have fun
...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
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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.
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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...
...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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Greg Long Artist
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Greg Long, Artist. A link to the works and workings of Greg Long an Irish Artist in a Global World. Greg follows in a tradition of Ireland's cultural heritage. Greg's art has been exported, exhibited and collected throughout europe, in...
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Sankaty Head Sunset, Nantucket Lighthouse Oil Painting
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Sankaty Head is in an area of Nantucket on the east end of the island known as Siasconset. High atop this huge bluff lies Sankaty Head Lighthouse, a 150 year old light station. "Sankaty Head Sunrise" reflects how the famous Nantucket lighthouse looks...
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An Australian artist living in Japan
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An introduction to my work and a short biography. Read my blog: http://dukaduka.blogspot.com
...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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Cleveland Photography
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CLEVELAND AS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF TERRI'S CAMERA! Cleveland has a lot of neat things. We have the Terminal Tower and Guitarmania, what a neat combination. (They look good together) We have The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a great Science Museu...
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Joe Nekrasz Stock and Fine Art Photography
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A site dedicated to showing stock and fine art photography. All images can be licensed or purchased as fine art prints. Please visit the images below or http://www.nekraszphoto.com for more info. Keep checking back as I'm constantly adding new work...
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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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...
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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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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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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 fine 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...
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sculpture
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Art is why I get up in the morning, and my definition ends there. Etsy Buy Handmade joshuaparker
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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.
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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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...
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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
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Small Format Art (SFA) - Create it - Collect it !!!
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I love creating and collecting small format art - so I thought it would be fun to have a lens to help others learn about creating and collecting SFA. Small Format Art is considered to be any type of art under the size of 14" in any direction. It...
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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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Watercolor Painting For Beginners
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You have found the best resource on Squidoo for all of your beginner watercolor painting needs including watercolor painting supplies, free watercolor painting lessons, watercolor painting books, watercolor painting videos and more. Click here for mor...
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Plein air painting
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What the heck is plein air painting you ask? Well plein air is a French term and it basically means in the open air. Its a method of painting, or drawing on site. Many master artists of yesteryear did it to study. Since they didn't have photography...



