Features
The Landscape Quick-Fix Guide
The path to a stunning landscape is beset with many potential pitfalls. A master painter teaches you how to recognize and
avoid these common mistakes.
By Foster Caddell
Spontaneous Tendencies
For Wolf Kahn, the only rule of painting is to stay in the moment. Learn how a sense of play can add excitement to your work.
By Marty Munson
Mentor Moments
Stuck in a rut? An experienced adviser can challenge you to do more. Here's what Kevin Macpherson and his colleagues have learned about the value of a painting mentor.
By Steve Smith
Found in Translation
Give your work an added dimension with symbolic objects that offer more than meets the eye.
By Cathy Hegman
The Nature of the Beast
Personalities come in all shapes and sizes—even the four-legged variety. These secrets will help you capture more than mere likeness in a pet portrait.
By Debbie Claussen
Special Section: Double Vision
Reach a new audience with giclée reproductions. From tips to finding a printer to how to price your editions, this A-to-Z guide will put you in the know.
By Steve Smith
Columns
Brushing Up
Balance opaque and transparent layers and you'll create potent images that sparkle with life.
By Butch Krieger
Business
Put your work into the spotlight by mastering the art of self-
promotion.
By Susan Abbott
Drawing Board
Do your drawings need more life? Forget about rendering individual elements and concentrate on a simple arrangement of straight and curved lines.
By Robert Barrett
Art Clinic
To accurately capture a sunlit scene, reflection and shadow must be carefully rendered. See how to do it.
By Tina Tammaro
Master Class
Gilbert Stuart shows us how to paint a portrait that will stand the test of time.
By Brett Busang
Departments
- Dialogue
- The Artist's Life: An artist paints a home on the range; the Munch museum tightens security; a painting class turns an artist on her head; and more.
- Competition Spotlight: 2004 Art Competition Finalist Yiqian Shu.
- Ask the Experts: How to know if you're ready for a gallery; and a safe way to mount a canvas to a panel.
- Art News
- Materials Handbook: An inside look at creating hand-primed canvases, and an artist puts a set of watercolors to the test.
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