PAINTING

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The main reason we to art school is to learn to make art that's good enough to sell with some good price and to fulfill life with satisfaction.  You must  believe that with a quality art education, you can make a living as an artist, like med students believe about med school and law students believe about law school. We all know how much money doctors and lawyers make, but we're less clear on how much money artists make, not to mention what they have to do in order to make it.

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These days, a decent art education runs around $100,000. Art schools need lots of $100,000's in order to stay in business. If prospective students had any idea how tough making a living as an artist is, how good they have to be to make those livings, and how hard art is to sell, art schools would get fewer $100,000's than they do now. So art schools don't talk about the survival aspects of being an artist, they offer precious little instruction in how to make enough money to survive, and worst of all, they appear to discourage their graduates from venturing outside the academic realm to learn survival techniques.

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Here's more of what you have to learn in order to become successful as an artist:

► How to talk and write about your art in ways people understand, regardless of how little or how much they know about art.

► How to price your art and answer questions about your prices.

► How to make people appreciate your art and feel like it's worth owning.

► How to respond when people criticize your art.

► How to know when you have enough art and enough of a selection to start showing and selling.

► How to show your art in ways that make it appealing to potential buyers.

► How to document your art in ways that increase its appeal to potential buyers.

► How to make sure that anyone who's interested in your art is able to buy something, regardless of how little or how much they have to spend.

► How to sell your art outside of the gallery system.

► How to sell your art if it's not the kind of art that galleries sell.

► How to find markets for your art outside of the gallery system.

► How to barter or trade your art for goods or services.

► How to present yourself and your art in ways that don't sabotage your opportunities to make sales.

There are as many ways to sell art and become successful as an artist 

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Oil painting for beginners will give you valuable skills in painting in oils-Written by famous artist

Oil painting for beginners will teach you everything you need to know to learn how to paint in oils. 

This online step-by-step guide will teach you new skills in painting and give you the confidence to learn this fun and exciting medium!

It will cover general information on different types of painting such as landscape, portrait, and still life, to learning the elements of putting a painting together and how to do this.

It will cover the basic art materials you will need and give you insider tips on what works best in terms of supplies. 


It will teach you different painting techniques or ways to apply the paint for interesting effects.

I would like to share a few thoughts on my beliefs about creating art.

I believe there is no "one way" to create art. When you create it; it is YOUR way. I don't want to tell you to paint like me, I want to help you to find YOUR WAY to paint.

Learning to be an artist takes a life-time. You never stop learning to get better and the more you do your art; the better it will get. You will see the improvements as time goes by. Just keep some of your older works and look at them again and you will see the obvious improvements and growth you have achieved.

I believe art should have an underlying purpose - not just be a visual candy. Some examples of these are causing an emotional reaction from the viewer. Another under-lying purpose could be giving someone a deja-vu experience. The art should do one of two things either touch the heart or the head. You should get excited about it and feel like you have really accomplished your purpose. "If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start." by Charles Hawthorne

When you lose track of time working on your art you are actually experiencing the "creative" process. I believe you will actually go into a different state of consciousness thereby forgetting about time and the real world. I do this and have heard that many artist have this experience. It has to do with the "right brain" and how you go with your art experience. "Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can re-measure the influences that caused it." by Edgar Payne

It will take time and patience to work your art and at times you may be annoyed or frustrated in the early stages of a painting. Try not to get discouraged as you WILL improve and get better. It will take time. Give yourself a break and don't expect a masterpiece right away. At this time (as always), look at subject as ONLY masses of VALUE, COLOR, EDGES in the proper place in the painting (COMPOSITION) and the appropriate paint quality for this stage of the painting. Learning to paint is a skill that you have to practice in order to get better. Sort of like riding a bicycle. When you first tried to ride a bike you probably fell off a few times but after you kept trying you eventually got the hang of it.

I believe that if you really want to learn to paint; you will and with your efforts you will gain skills and knowledge along the way. Becoming an artist takes motivation and desire to learn and get better at your art. You need to continually practice your art and learn by taking course work and reading about art. I hope my website can give you more knowledge and skills in becoming a better artist.

"A student first paints everything, then paints like the teacher, and finally like themselves." - E. John Robinson

When I paint I don't just paint what I see; I try to interpret what I see as artistically as possible. Here are some of the magical things I can do when I paint; I can make the colors as bright or as dull as I want; I can interpret the tones in sharp contrast or very vaguely, and I can enlarge or reduce the shapes I see. I don't want my painting to look like a photograph - if I did I would simply take a picture with a camera. I want it to look like a painting. I can use the camera to give me a reference of the scene I am painting. When I paint I want to see the brush strokes - to be able to just "indicate" with a few brush strokes what you are seeing as an artist and then let the viewer interpret the image in their way - this is exciting for an artist!

You will learn the what, where, when, how and why of oil painting. For some interesting information on the history of Oil Painting go to Art History As you begin to paint; keep in mind that every-time you do a new painting you will learn and get better! Be sure and bookmark this page to check back on updates and new projects being done. Thank you for visiting and I hope you enjoy oil painting for beginners!
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                             use water color for practise