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Fine Art

Acrylic Painting Instruction Video

This is a great little video on painting with acrylics that I found on YouTube. As an artist who started using acrylics with no instruction, I wish more of this was available when I started. I wouldn’t have been nearly as lost.



Avoid the Problem of Overworking

For those of you unfamiliar with Utrecht, they are one of the best places to get art supplies. On top of that they have a great blog on art and design how-to. I found the fantastic post earlier today and wanted to share it with all of you artists and designers that may [...]



Fine Art Instruction: Oil Painting

Painting is one of the oldest forms of fine art known; and oil painting is one of the earliest forms and mediums used. Here is a great 7+ minute video showing some techniques in oil painting. Enjoy!



Wip It and Wip it Good!

What is a WIP you may ask (and, no, it is not misspelled)? For those non-savvy art lovers a WIP is a Work In Progress. Today I am going to share one of my own WIP’s with you. It is using a process of a grid system to begin work from. I find that using [...]



DC Healing Arts Gallery Grand Opening, May 9th

First-of-its-Kind Facility Launches in Heart of the U Street Revival - Programs Open to the Public (PRWeb Apr 7, 2008)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb834634.htm



Exhibition "The Question is Known: (W)here is Latin American/Latino Art?" at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (San Francisco), April 18 - May 24, 2008

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) presents “The Question is Known: (W)here is Latin American/Latino Art?” in the MCCLA gallery, 2868 Mission St, San Francisco, April 18-May 24, 2008. Opening reception Friday, April 18, 7-10pm ($5). “The Question is Known” includes works by 30 Latino/Latin American artists as well as non-Latinos. Curator Anthony Torres [...]



Washington, D.C. In All It’s Splendor

More UnfocusedBrain.com.  Great DC images
These are some of the first photos I have ever released under Creative Commons Licenses

 
 
 
 
 



Useful Tool: Glue pens.

From UnfocusedBrain.com:
Some time ago I went on a glue buying freak-out. I needed glue for a particular project and realized that we were really understocked in general. So I went over to the office supply store and bought about 4 different kinds. They all have their uses but the one I keep finding new [...]



San Francisco SPCA Condemns Animal Killings in San Francisco Art Institute Exhibition

San Francisco SPCA President Jan McHugh-Smith today condemned the content of a current exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute, describing it as barbaric and depraved. The exhibit, “Don’t Trust Me,” is the work of Paris-based Adel Abdessemed, and includes videos of six animals - a pig, goat, doe, ox, horse and sheep - being [...]



K2 Fabrication Wins Silver Award for Best Museum Environment from Event Design Magazine

Custom Exhibits, Portable Tradeshow Displays and Custom Office/Museum Environments by award winning K2 Fabrication (PRWeb Mar 12, 2008)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb730694.htm