December 2019

Artists Magazine

Artists Magazine is the world’s leading magazine for serious, active artists of all skill levels.

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Family Matters
The 18th century English artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) was an in-demand society portrait painter whose sitters included kings and queens. Nevertheless, the artist found time to paint a number of portraits of his wife and children. The painti
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A Convergence of Masters
he Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil demonstrates the adaptability of Édouard Manet (French, 1832–83) as an artist. In the 1860s, Manet had become notorious for provocative figure paintings. Olympia, set in modern Paris, was a scandalous pa
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The Model Family
my favorite models are my family members. Ever since I began painting, I’ve turned to those I love as my artistic inspiration. The walls of my home are filled with modeling-sessions-turned-to-paintings of my children, in particular, and record their
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Watercolor Batik Basics
Any kind of rice paper will work, but my go-to rice paper, ginwashi, has little sticklike flecks and is quite strong, depite its fragile, transparent appearance. • Winsor & Newton • Daniel Smith I buy paraffin at the grocery store and then melt it
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Side-View Self-Portraits: Easier Done Than Said
Doing a self-portrait from life, looking straight into the mirror, is hard enough, invoking all the psychological trepidations that come from staring intently at oneself. Then there are all the physical difficulties involved in keeping the same pose:
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The Sideways Glance
I start loosely, usually with a simple circular scribble to get a feeling for where I want to position the head on the canvas. I use highly erasable vine charcoal so I can reposition the head or the proportions of my features more easily. I graduall
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Water On The Rocks
Strathmore 400 series smooth, 2-ply bristol • No. 2B graphite pencils: Fantasia Premium and Faber-Castell • colored pencils: Prismacolor Premier, Derwent Lightfast and Faber-Castell Polychromos • Staedtler pigment ink liners • cool grey (10%, 20%
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Ties That Bind
Winter holidays can stuff your home with relatives, gifts and gear. There’s room for art, too—just think small: ● A postcard-sized watercolor in a readymade frame makes a great gift. Or create a series to keep and hang together or to inspire a new bo
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HOME Is Where the LIGHT Is
Oil painter Carole Rabe spent her childhood roaming the woods in her small central Massachusetts town, watching the way the sun reflected on and between the trees. “I think that’s where I first developed my love for light and how we perceive things,”
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Light Thickens
Dusk is an utterly transformative time of day. As the light fades to twilight, the contrast drops. Colors converging in value begin to sing. Artificial lighting is suddenly able to compete with daylight, so that interiors become visible while neon si
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Windows of Hope
Late in the 1970s I worked for the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), in Arlington, Va., the federal agency charged with reducing injury and death in the nation’s mines. Then, as today, mining ranked high in occupational dangers. As a newl
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Palm Beach A Creativity Field Guide
An essential ingredient in all creative pursuits is to show up to them wide awake so that whatever notes are flowing may travel freely. As a photographer and writer, I’ve found that travel is important for me, providing the opportunity to wander and
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Photos That Tell A Story
As a photographer, I’m always looking for magical lighting. Beyond that, what I look for in my subjects, hands-down, is story. I try to steer clear of the smart phone camera clusters, shoot slowly, breathe and really wait for a tale to emerge. It mig
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Big Art, Big Message
Street art has long played a role in reflecting the cultural mindset and emotional heartbeat of urban epicenters, and large-scale public murals are one of the most ambitious and effective forms of this type of outdoor expression. Although there are f
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Stepping Out
This is the 36th year for the Artists Magazine Annual Art Competition—which makes it more than twice as old as the minimum age requirement for entrants in the Student Division. But art students come in all ages. They’re people who’ve made a decision
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Donations Done Right
artists often get requests to donate one or more works to a benefit auction. Proponents of these donations point out that they support a good cause and can extend an artist’s visibility. These observations may be true, but for best results, there are
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Do Now
The Museum of Underwater Art is actually a collection of “galleries,” both on shore and underwater, located throughout Townsville, Magnetic Island, Palm Island and the Great Barrier Reef region—all in and off the coast of Australia. Artist Jason deCa

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