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TWO GREAT ART TIPS

Thanks go out to two of my students who've shared two great tips with me.  I'm passing them on to you.

1.  SAVE YOUR BRUSHES!  I was getting ready to discard quite a few of my old brushes that were caked with paint from extensive use over the years.  Even though I clean them after each session, time does takes its toll.  Well, a student told me to soak my brushes in Murphy's Oil Soap overnight and it would help remove the old dried paint build up at the base of them.  It worked!!!!  I rescued about fifteen brushes!

Just soak the bristles and a touch of the holder (see photo below).  Don't immerse the wood.  After they've been soaking for twelve hours, rinse them well and clean with Palmolive Dish Detergent or brush cleaner.

BRUSHES SOAKED IN MURPHY'S OIL SOAP

2.  ART TOTE BAG:  Another student came to class with this Pittman Field Bag.  This is now made by Jerry's Artarama.  The Masterson Palette fits in a compartment under the bag!!!!  The bag is large enough to accommodate paint, brushes, palette, paper towels and lots of other things.  If you order it, be sure to just order the bag.  There is another price for the bag and a watercolor palette and that's more expensive.

http://www.jerrysartarama.com/discount-art-supplies/bags-and-backpacks/pittman-palette-and-field-bag.htm

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Art Classes Roswell, GA

"Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left." - Paul Cezanne  

I love that quote.  I relate to how fascinating each moment is and how with just the turn of an object or the turn of a head, a new nuance is seen, felt, and the need to express it is born.

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PAINT YOUR OWN GOOD CHEER AND LAUGHTER INTO YOUR WORK

“I do not need to go to the Museum and to see Titian and Velasquez. I have studied my trade in Nature's workshop, and now I know better than I did before I took my little journey, what is above all necessary if one wishes to paint the South. Heavens! what fools all these painters are! They say that Delacroix does not paint the Orient as it is. Only Parisians—Gérôme, etc.—can paint the Orient as it is—is that their claim? It really is a funny thing, this business of painting, out in the wind and the sun. And when the crowd looks over one's shoulder, one simply sets to like mad, as if the devil himself were at one's back, until the canvas is covered. It is precisely in this way that one discovers what everything depends upon. And this is the whole secret.

After a while one takes the study up again and attends a little more to the form. Then, at least, the thing looks less rough and more harmonious, and one also introduces something of one's own good cheer and laughter into it.” - Excerpt From: Vincent van Gogh. “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh.”

Van Gogh painted out in the field and did studies before he attempted his final painting. I love how he wrote that an artist introduces something of their own good cheer and laughter into their work. A roomful of students can all paint the same study and no two paintings will look the same because each student is a unique individual.

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COPYRIGHT FREE PHOTO WEBSITE

Here's a new copyright free website.  You can use the images to your hearts content without breaking any copyright rules.  

The photos on this website are really good.  There are landscapes, cityscapes, people, nature and still life photos.  And remember, I have a list of 17 copyright free websites on my website in my "Articles" page:  CLICK HERE

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IRRESISTIBLE MOMENTUM

The night before my trip to New York, I downloaded the collection of Van Gogh's letters to my iPad.  I've been reading his letters off and on for the past few years.  This particular letter to Theo was the one I read the morning that I was getting ready to see the Van Gogh exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.  How ironic that Vincent considered himself a nonentity in the eyes of most people and fast forward to today and people flock to the museums to gaze upon his work.  I love his words describing that he was driven with an irresistible momentum:

“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.” - Vincent Van Gogh

I have irresistible momentum, how about you?  Many of my students do!  I've had the pleasure of watching these awesome works, by my wonderful students, come to fruition the past few weeks.  Please enjoy these photos!  To see more of my students with their work, please visit my website. CLICK HERE  To inquire about taking art classes with me, please email me.  CLICK HERE

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