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Tip for making yellow deeper with burnt and raw umber from the book The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting

This tip from The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting for making yellow deeper by using a mixture of burnt and raw umber may the coolest tip I've read all week! I think we all tend to think about making our colors darker with black but making yellow deeper with burnt and raw umber really makes sense.

Like this color mixing tip and want more? Then grab yourself a copy of:

 

The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting

By

Paula Guhin

and

Geri Greenman

This book is a comprehensive how-to book about all aspects of creative painting. It serves as a reference and technique guide for painting with all types of craft and fine arts paints, including acrylics, oils, tempera, watercolor, and pastels. The organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and 600 full-color photos for clear understanding. Galleries of artwork by a wide range of artists offer the reader examples of what can be done with each of the painting categories and inspiration to pursue the hobby for themselves.

Geri Greenman, a high school art teacher for thirty years, was honored with the Outstanding Achievement Award by her colleagues. She was a finalist for the Delores Kohl (International) Outstanding Service in the Field of Education award, a nominee for the Golden Apple, and listed in the Who's Who among America's Teachers. Geri has been writing for Arts and Activities magazine for 24 years, a contributing editor for 10 years, with 100 articles published.

Paula Guhin is a former educator, visual artist, photographer, and the author of the ever-popular Glorious Glue, Art with Adhesives (J. W. Walch) and Can We Eat the Art? (Incentive Publications). Articles have appeared in School Arts, Instructor, Teaching Today, and many more periodicals. She is also a contributing editor for Arts and Activities magazine.

 

Paint a reverse image on Mylar from the book The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting

I don't tend to think of painting on a clear surface, but check out these tips and techniques from The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting for painting on Mylar and Dura-Lar poly film.

Click on the image to enlarge and read about painting on different clear surfaces.

 

 The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting

By

Paula Guhin

and

Geri Greenman

This book is a comprehensive how-to book about all aspects of creative painting. It serves as a reference and technique guide for painting with all types of craft and fine arts paints, including acrylics, oils, tempera, watercolor, and pastels. The organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and 600 full-color photos for clear understanding. Galleries of artwork by a wide range of artists offer the reader examples of what can be done with each of the painting categories and inspiration to pursue the hobby for themselves.

Geri Greenman, a high school art teacher for thirty years, was honored with the Outstanding Achievement Award by her colleagues. She was a finalist for the Delores Kohl (International) Outstanding Service in the Field of Education award, a nominee for the Golden Apple, and listed in the Who's Who among America's Teachers. Geri has been writing for Arts and Activities magazine for 24 years, a contributing editor for 10 years, with 100 articles published.

Paula Guhin is a former educator, visual artist, photographer, and the author of the ever-popular Glorious Glue, Art with Adhesives (J. W. Walch) and Can We Eat the Art? (Incentive Publications). Articles have appeared in School Arts, Instructor, Teaching Today, and many more periodicals. She is also a contributing editor for Arts and Activities magazine.

 

Cool photo from the book Roadside Relics: America's Abandoned Automobiles

If you like old things and photography, then you will love the new book Roadside Relics: America's Abandoned Automobiles. It is amazing what effect nature and time can have on cars. And as I promised yesterday, here is an inside peek at one of the photos that I think would make a great starting point for the painting tutorial that I posted yesterday from The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting.

Click on this page from Roadside Relics: America's Abandoned Automobiles to read about this photo and more about the book:

Roadside Relics: America's Abandoned Automobiles

by

Will Shiers

Abandoned junk to some, the rusty old steel shells of vehicles are treasures to others, holding memories of a bygone era, or the promise of a pristinely restored, radically customized automobile. Automotive photographer Will Shiers has captured these dreams on film for over ten years, and this volume collects his images between two covers for the first time. Here are the beautiful husks Shiers has found in the United States fields and barns, shops, and salvage yards across States. Divided into five categories—General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Independents, and Special Vehicles—these wrecks and relics from 1910 to the 1970s come equipped with all the relevant information: history, model, location. The most comprehensive and beautifully photographed collection of abandoned cars ever published, this volume preserves for all time the exquisite skeletons of American automotive might.

Will Shiers is an automotive photojournalist residing in the United Kingdom. Shiers has had several thousand articles and photographs published in automotive magazines, and he has supplied images of abandoned American cars to Classic American magazine for the last decade. He is currently the technical editor at Motor Transport newspaper.

How to create an abstract painting from a photo from the book The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting

Try this fun tutorial from The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting on how to create an abstract painting from a photo. Don't have a cool photo of an old car? Come on back here tomorrow and I'll have a super fun one for you from the new book Roadside Relics America's Abandoned Automobiles.

Click on these pages from The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting to enlarge and read how to make an abstract painting from a photo.

Like this painting technique and want lots more? Grab yourself a copy of:

 

The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting

By

Paula Guhin

and

Geri Greenman

This is a comprehensive how-to book about all aspects of creative painting. It serves as a reference and technique guide for painting with all types of craft and fine arts paints, including acrylics, oils, tempera, watercolor, and pastels. The organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and 600 full-color photos for clear understanding. Galleries of artwork by a wide range of artists offer the reader examples of what can be done with each of the painting categories and inspiration to pursue the hobby for themselves.

Geri Greenman, a high school art teacher for thirty years, was honored with the Outstanding Achievement Award by her colleagues. She was a finalist for the Delores Kohl (International) Outstanding Service in the Field of Education award, a nominee for the Golden Apple, and listed in the Who's Who among America's Teachers. Geri has been writing for Arts and Activities magazine for 24 years and has been a contributing editor for 10 years, with 100 articles published.

Paula Guhin is a former educator, visual artist, photographer, and the author of the ever-popular Glorious Glue, Art with Adhesives (J. W. Walch) and Can We Eat the Art? (Incentive Publications). Her articles have appeared in School Arts, Instructor, Teaching Today, and many more periodicals. She is also a contributing editor for Arts and Activities magazine.

 

How to use and clean a kneaded eraser from the new book The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting

Here are some really great tips and techniques for using a kneaded eraser with pastels. Also included on this page from The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting there is a tutorial on how to blend pastels with a wet brush. I simple love this book because the tips included are fabulous! For example, this one about popping a kneaded eraser in the pocket of jeans and running it through the washing machine to clean it is brilliant!

Like these techniques and tips an want tons more? Than grab yourself a copy of:

 

The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting

By

Paula Guhin

and

Geri Greenman

This book is a comprehensive how-to book about all aspects of creative painting. It serves as a reference and technique guide for painting with all types of craft and fine arts paints, including acrylics, oils, tempera, watercolor, and pastels. The organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and 600 full-color photos for clear understanding. Galleries of artwork by a wide range of artists offer the reader examples of what can be done with each of the painting categories and inspiration to pursue the hobby for themselves.

Geri Greenman, a high school art teacher for thirty years, was honored with the Outstanding Achievement Award by her colleagues. She was a finalist for the Delores Kohl (International) Outstanding Service in the Field of Education award, a nominee for the Golden Apple, and listed in the Who's Who among America's Teachers. Geri has been writing for Arts and Activities magazine for 24 years, a contributing editor for 10 years, with 100 articles published.

Paula Guhin is a former educator, visual artist, photographer, and the author of the ever-popular Glorious Glue, Art with Adhesives (J. W. Walch) and Can We Eat the Art? (Incentive Publications). Articles have appeared in School Arts, Instructor, Teaching Today, and many more periodicals. She is also a contributing editor for Arts and Activities magazine.