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Anatomy of a Painting – Part 1
Anatomy of a painting part 2- Varnishing
Archiving Work Part 1
Archiving Work Part 2
Archiving Work part 3
Artists—How To Travel Light With Paints & Equipment
Changing Mediums for Inspiration
Color Mixing
Color Opportunities in Painting
Color Theory Basics Part I
Color Theory Basics Part II
Color Theory Basics Part III
Color Theory Basics Part IV Color Accents
Composition
Composition-2
Constructive Criticism
Depicting Character
Drawing How to: Materials
Drawing How To: Pencil Masters
Drawing How To: Process
Drawing How To: Working with Purpose
Drawing Through the Form
Edges
Focus
Geometric Planes in Painting
Getting to the Heart of a Subject
Greens in the Landscape
In Search of a Perfect Palette
Learning to See
Learning to See Part 1
Learning to See part 2
Learning To See Part 3
Making a Mark
Mixing Greens part 1
Mixing Greens part 2
Mixing Greens Part 3
Mixing Greens Part 4
Mixing Greens part 5
More on Color Theory
More on Construction in Painting
More on Translation
Organizing the Palette
Painting Autumn Color
Painting Forest Scene Interiors
Painting From Photos Part2: Copying and Copyrights
Painting in Paradise
Painting in the Studio
Painting Moonlight
PAINTING SEASCAPES
Painting Snow
Painting the Cherry Blossoms
Painting the Sky Color in a Landscape
Painting with Electronic Media
Painting with Photos
Paintings as Objects
Perspective and Its Importance
Polychromatic shift
Practice and Process
PRACTICE!
Reflected Light
Seeing Clean Color
Seeing the Big Picture
Shapes and the Importance of Edges
Studio Lighting
Studio Tips for Painting Part 1
Studio Tips for Painting Part 2 Storage
Studio Tips Part 3 Lighting
Studio Tips Part 4 Ergonomics
Studio Tips part 5 Framing
Subject is Secondary
Sunrise and Sunset Lighting
Surface Quality
The Benefit of Proper Tools
The Clarity of Concept
The Drawing from Life Survival Guide
The Elegance of Abstraction
The Importance of Good Habits
The Power of Form
The Quality of Shape
The Strength of Value
The Substance of Art
The Superiority of Simplicity
The Unity of Purpose
The Value of Looking at Only Light and Dark
THE VALUE OF STUDIES
Three Sources of Light in Outdoor Scenes
Translating the Idea
Values
Variety in Painting
Weaving Color & Values
Working from Memory and imagination
Art Books & Reviews
Art Exhibition Judging
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Art History
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Historical Artists
Cabrera Originals & Prints
Imaginative Realism
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Notable Contemporary Artists
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The Business of Art
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Gallery Contracts
Historical Artists A-G
Adolphe William Bouguereau Quotes
Bouguereau Quotes Part 2
Adolphe William Bouguereau 1825-1905
Albert Bierstadt
*Albert Thomas DeRome
*Aldro Thompson Hibbard
*Albert Thomas DeRome
*Aldro Thompson Hibbard
Alfred Munnings
Anders Zorn
Andrew Loomis Quotes on Color
Andrew Loomis Quotes on Drawing and Tone
Andrew Loomis Reprints
Andrew Loomis Quotes on Drawing and Tone
Andrew Loomis Quotes on Color
Anthony Theime
Arthur Streeton
Arthur Wesley Dow 1857 – 1922
Asher B. Durand
Bernie Wrightson October 27 1948 – March 19 2017
Bettina Steinke 1913-1999
Carl Larsson
Carl Rungius
Cecilia Beaux
Charles Harold Davis 1856-1933
Charles Warren Eaton
Chauncey Foster Ryder 1868-1949
Childe Hassam
Daniel Urrabieta Vierge 1851-1904
Dean Cornwell
Dean Cornwell Book – Second Printing
Dean Cornwell Notes Part1
Dean Cornwell Notes Part 2
Dean Cornwell Notes Part 3
Dean Cornwell Paintings for ‘The Man of Galilee 12 Scenes from the Life of Christ’
Dean Cornwell paintings for City of the Great King
Dean Cornwell Vignettes
Dennis Miller Bunker
Donald Teague
Edgar Payne
Edward Redfield
Edward Seago
Edwin Austin Abbey 1852 – 1911
Edwin Austin Abbey The Quest for the Holy Grail Murals1890-1902
Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale
Elizabeth Forbes
Eugene Laloue 1854 -1941
Frank Benson
Frank Frazetta 1928-2010
Frederick Mulhaupt
Frederick Waugh Notes on Marine Painting
Frederick Waugh Notes on Marine Painting Part 2
Granville Redmond
Gari Melchers
George Inness
George Inness Quotes on Art
Giuseppe Abbatti
Gunnar Widforss
Gustav Bauernfeind
Guy Rose
Historical Artists H-Q
Hans Heysen
Harold Von Schmidt
Harriet Randall Lumis
Harry Leith-Ross
Henri Fantin Latour
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Henryk Hector Siemiradzki
Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered
Hugh Bolton Jones
Isaac Levitan
Jane Peterson
Jean Giraud 1938-2012
Jean Leon Gerome
Joaquin Sorolla
John Atkinson Grimshaw
John Carlson
John Joseph Enneking
John Singer Sargent
Jules Bastien Lepage
Julian Alden Weir Still Life Paintings
Kate Elizabeth Bunce
L B Harrison
Lady Elizabeth Butler (ne’e Thompson)
Laurits Tuxen 1853-1927
Mariano Fortuny Marsal
Marion Kavanaugh Wachtel
Martin Rico y Ortega
Mary Cassatt
Mathias J Alten
Maurice Braun
Maynard Dixon
More Dean Cornwell Quotes
More From Munnings Out in the Open
Munnings in Middleburg VA
N C Wyeth
Nicolai Fechin Quotes on Art
Nicolai Fechin Art Quotes part 2
Orson Byron Lowell
Peder Monsted
Peder S. Kroyer
Percy Gray
Peter Helck
Quotes from Harvey Dunn
Harvey Dunn Quotes Part 2(All Images by Harvey Dunn)
Quotes from Harvey Dunn Part 3
Quotes from Harvey Dunn Part 4
Quotes from Harvey Dunn part 5
Historical Artists R-Z
Rene Bull
Richard Parkes Bonington
Rien Poortvliet
Robert Henri
Robert McCall 1919-2010
Sidney Laurence
Sir Frank Brangwyn RA
Stanhope Forbes
Stanley Meltzoff
Theodore Clement Steele
Theodore Kautzky 1896-1953
Theodore Robinson
Thomas Moran
Thomas Worthington Whittredge
Tom Roberts
Tom Thomson
Vasily Vereshchagin
Walter Elmer Schofield
Walter Hunt Everett
Wilhem Kuhnert
Willard Metcalf
William Andrew Loomis
William Bliss Baker
William Forsyth
William McGregor Paxton
William Merritt Chase
William Wendt
Winslow Homer
Yoshida Hiroshi
Zdenek Burian
Historical Artists A-G