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Packaging a Painting for Shipping
How to pack a painting on canvas for safe cross-country shipping. See full post »
Display Your Art for Sale on Facebook
Do you have a Facebook Page, an Etsy account, and/or artwork for sale at Fine Art America? If so, you can very easily display your work from your Etsy Shop and your Fine Art America portfolio directly on your Facebook Page. This can be great for your collectors and fans, because in one place, they can quickly see what's available in both of your online shops and for what price, then link directly from your Facebook Page to the item of their choice in either shop. See full post »
How to Paint with Encaustics
The process of painting in encaustic entails heating up the paint - which is a combination of refined beeswax, resin and pigment - until the paint mixture melts, then quickly brushing the strokes of paint onto a surface before the wax hardens -- which takes no time at all.* Usually, I can get only 1-3 strokes onto my surface before the wax solidifies. So, it's dip and stroke, dip and stroke, over and over and over until you've covered a portion of the surface, at least. See full post »
Thoughts Three Years After Art School
It's been 3 years since I left art school. I've been painting and drawing nightly for awhile -- it's amazing how I'm starting to really 'get' some of the things I heard in art school, but somehow didn't make it all the way through from my ears and eyes to my brain to my hands and brushes.
It was such an immersive and exciting experience to be in art school in Chicago... See full post »
How to Build a Stretcher (Strainer)
Some detailed instructions on how to build a strainer: Select wood with good, straight endgrain, straight (not bowed), few knots, no critical knots. Cut all pieces to length (2x4's & 1x6's) on miter saw. Set table saw to 15 degrees - rip 2x4's in half (??"), rip both halves of each piece of wood.
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