Use a soft pencil to make easy, unique prints
To make a unique greeting card or even small frameable gift art, try offset tracing, also known as tracing-paper transfer. With this technique you can make one or…
Tips&Techniques PB dept
Creativity is ageless
When you think of yourself, does the word “creative” come to mind, or do you reserve that word to describe people who “make art”? Creativity is actually what we do…
Tips & Techniques
Shape up a painting
For beginning artists, the most difficult part of a painting or drawing is often the beginning. When you look at a subject, it’s hard to decide what should be…
Suggestions for watercolor beginners
If you’re just getting started with watercolor, you might find that it’s difficult to know how to start a painting, and then how to keep it going. Perhaps you’ve…
Be your own critic
If you are an artist you probably know when you’ve done a good painting. It just “feels right.” But sometimes you feel there’s a problem and you don’t know what…
Personal references for memory jogging
Most artists can’t just pull a picture out of their heads on short notice. Unless they are painting a completely abstract picture, they usually have to have something to…
Selling tips for artists and photographers
Many talented people are thinking of pursuing a professional career as a fine artist or photographer artist, but aren’t sure how to begin putting their work before the public and…