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Oil Painting: Solvents and Resins
A look at the properties of the various solvents and resins used in oil painting.

Top 10 Tips for Oil Painting
Top 10 oil painting tips for professional results with oil paints.

Top 10 Tips for Painting Dogs
Top 10 tips for painting dogs

Painting Project: Create Your Own Christmas Cards
A painting project challing you to make your own Christmas cards.

What Makes a Painting Good or Bad?
What makes a painting good or bad, acceptable as fine art or not? Here are various opinions from artists.

Making Giclee or Art Prints
If you made art prints or Giclee prints from your paintings, you could sell them time and again. But is it worth it and what does making Gilcee prints involve?

Free Stencils Collection
A collection of free stencils to print and cut out. New stencils are added regularly. Subjects include animals, flowers, food, nature, sea, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Easter, and Halloween.

Painting Project: Water Drops
A painting project focusing on painting realistic water drops.

How To Design a Web Site for Your Art Yourself
How to Design Your Own Web Site For Your Art

10 Tips for Loosening Up
10 tips for loosening up the way you paint.

Art Styles, Schools, and Movements
You will come across the terms style, school, and movement endlessly in art. What exactly do these terms mean?

Six Things To Decide Before Starting to Paint
Planning a Painting: Decisions to Make Before Putting Brush to Paint

How To Accurately Measure the Angles in Objects in a Painting
How To Accurately Measure the Angles in Objects in a Painting

How Chocolate Can be Good For Your Painting
How to improve your painting through your love for chocolate.

Symbols Dictionary: Flowers and Plants
Symbols dictionary - flowers and plants. Add hidden meaning to your paintings by using specific flowers to symbolise love, jealous, and more.

How to Write an Artist's Statement
Tips on writing an artist's statement for a painting.

Palettes of the Masters -- Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh's adventurous use of colour changed the direction of art history. Just what colours did he have in his palette?

The Accidental Discovery of Prussian Blue
How the colourmaker Diesbach accidentally discovered Prussian blue when he was trying to make a red

Signing a Painting
Signing a Painting -- Where, How and Why to Add a Signature to a Painting When You've Finished It

Painting Critique Checklist
A checklist of things to consider when looking critically a painting.

Symbols Dictionary: Death
Symbols dictionary - death and mourning. Add hidden meaning to your paintings by using specific symbols.

 
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