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Selling Your Paintings Through a Gallery
You may have a collection of artwork at home that you treasure, but like everyone, you will eventually want to sell a masterpiece or two. Perhaps the easiest way to do this is through a gallery.
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Landscape Painting
Another genre of painting is the landscape. This genre of painting deals especially with our environment and our natural surroundings. The artist may even try to be very vivid with his farm painting that he may even put a huge crap of the cow or the pellet sized craps of the goats. But obviously he won’t do that because it will make the picture stink.
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The Basics of Color Harmony
Paintings can leap at us, out of canvass and full of life, or can surround us with a grim blanket of mourning because of the color scheme wielded by the artist. This is why one of things that art students analyze in the masterpieces of great artists is the color scheme used to achieve color harmony.
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Preserving The Value Of Oil Paintings
Paintings have always been in great demand in auction houses and if you’re lucky enough to acquire or inherit a invaluable work of art, we are sure that you’d like to preserve its value so that you may still sell it for a considerable price later on or be able to appreciate and share its beauty for a longer time.
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Painting Nude Portraits
First, lets us differentiate a nude painting from a life study.  A life study focuses on how human beings hold themselves.  It trains the eye of the painter to distinguish aspects of color, lights, and shadows.  And it provides opportunities for the painter’s hand to attempt various brush strokes.
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Painting Life Studies
A life study is one of the experiences that every oil painter wanted to have.  Unfortunately, models for such painting sessions are not easy to find.  And the professional models are hired by elite art groups who can afford them.  To join this particular activity of a group, you will have to sign up for expensive special classes.
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Oils Used in Painting
Traditionally, oils are used by painters to hold pigments together and produce a consistency that can be effectively used on canvass.  Some painters use commercial paints from tubes and these also produce satisfactory results, even though the artist cannot be sure of the paints’ composition.  There is a possibility that the paint would fade and the painting’s overall effect would not be as powerful as when it was newly-created.
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