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To make progress with any of your drawings, you'll need to know and evaluate this drawing first.  It can be unbelievably challenging to be impartial about your own drawing as it is often difficult to see the faults in a drawing you have been looking at for hours. If you had seen the faults earlier, you would have corrected them!  It ...

This is a tutorial that gives a quick rundown on modeling an aircraft from blueprint plans in Wings 3D. I consider this an "lower intermediate" level tutorial, since it doesn't cover all the basics and assumes the user already has some understanding of how the software works. What it does cover is box-modeling techniques used to create "mechanical" models using Wings ...

You may be disturbed and demoralized because you have just started to learn how to draw and you are discovering it to be tougher than you believed it was. Or you may be attempting a new theme or a new method or a new drawing medium and your labour are not meeting your hopes. You might also sense that your drawing ...

If you want to learn how to draw, you will discover soon, you want some support. Skilled assistance (in one way or other). When browsing around in the internet or hunting the local library you will observe. There are various approaches to get on track in becoming skilled at drawing. You will discover books, DVDs, workshops and drawing coaching or even ...

 I first discovered scratchboard art by accident. It was at the clearance aisle in an art store. Here was a little kit that had the scratch pen missing. As a consumer I could not resist the bargain price and as an artist I could not hold back my curiosity and now I am an addict. Scratchboard art or scraperboard art is ...

  BUDGET FOR YOUR GARDEN By Thomas Murrell, MBA, APS (876 Words)   Have you ever thought about how much it costs to maintain your garden? Most people never give it much thought - spending the odd day in the garden when they have time and impulse buying plants at the local nursery.   But if you're serious about saving money ...

    Convert your high-quality digital photos into low-res Polaroids   October 14th, 2009 Photographs. What started out way back when as pictures on tin or glass plates had progressed through the years to the point where there's actually noting behind the lens now—no plates, no film, just an electronic image sensor. Makes for great pictures, but it does lose a ...

Taking a sketchbook on one's travels is a stimulating way for an artist to add another dimension to the trip as shown in this article I wrote and a trip to the Mediterranean. It gave me the ability to not only keep a daily journal, but to create watercolor sketches that became illustrations once I added pen and ink to them.  ...

How to Do Ukrainian Egg Painting©  by Arlene Wright-Correll This past week I read how my Pen Pal Leonie, in Australia, had a miserable failure coloring her Easter eggs with a wax process. Well, the Calvary has arrived, Leonie. I decorate eggs using the Ukrainian Egg Painting method. Now this is a lot of work, dear heart, so if you intend to do an ...

How to Use Your Arts and Crafts as Currency to Buy What You Need© By Arlene Wright-Correll Long before there was cash, barter was civilization’s main currency. Aztec Culture was the follower of the tradition inherited by the Mayas, who a long time before, used chocolate as currency and food Barter is often regarded as an old-fashioned means of exchange ...

"How to Expand Your Arts and Crafts Sales from Locally to Globally or How to Sell on the Internet." © by Arlene Wright-Correll In my last article we spoke about using barter to increase your arts and craft sales and I ended that article with the following words, "Each of us needs to find new ways to market our arts and ...

How to Paint Without Knowing How to Draw a Staight Line  by Arlene Wright-Correll If I have heard this once, I have heard this a thousand times, "I can't even draw a straight line". I hear it every time someone looks at one of my paintings. I basically feel one can paint or create art in any painting or drawing medium ...

How to Make a Bird House Out of Old Wine Corks  by Arlene Wright-Correll I had been saving wine corks for almost a year and when I had 112 of them plus 1 champagne cork I thought I would make a bird house out of these corks. I wanted this to be a totally recycled birdhouse made out of anything I ...

Painting a Siberian Tiger  by Arlene Wright-Correll Most times, when I get up in the morning, I usually know what I want to paint or what kind of painting I want to start. Often it is about a place I have been or a flower I have grown or a still life of the fruits and vegetables that grow in my ...

How to Paint a White Tiger by Arlene Wright-Correll     Though I call this painting "The Snow Tiger" there really is no such thing as a snow tiger and I think some people get a white tiger mixed up with snow leopards. When I painted my first tiger painting I did a lot a research as was amazed to find ...

How to Choose the Correct Watercolor Paper  by Arlene Wright-Correll Choosing the correct watercolor paper is half the battle when one starts a painting and it helps to know a little bit about paper because once you walk into an arts and crafts store or go to an on-line art supply store you will find so many makes, brands and types ...

Every Painting has a Story  by Arlene Wright-Correll I have finally been able to find two reliable 18 and 20 year old helpers who know how to give a good day's work for a good day's pay and at age 74 my gardens are back to looking like they should!   It is rough getting old and cricketty, when the knees ...

An Artist’s Different Point of View©  by Arlene Wright-Correll   I rarely paint the same thing twice as my mind is too eclectic or weird as some members of my family labels. However, a bright, blue sky day brought me out into my gardens early today when it was chilly and eventually my old friendly, faded gardening jacket got removed and hung ...

How to Create Fused Stained Glass Jewelry  by Arlene Wright-Correll Creating fused stained glass jewelry is really not hard at all. One need not have any artistic talent. One only needs a kiln or access to one. Here are some pieces I recently made to sell to raise money for St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital. The leaves the jewelry sit on ...

Palm Desert, CA – Artist, Lauretta Lowell, has utilized her whimsical outlook of life to discover an unusual assemblage style in creating her newest series of whimsical dolls. The style, which she said she discovered less than a year ago, is based on the process of lovingly bringing her memorable assemblage sculptures to life with a mixture of humor, antiques, vintage ...