Hello Artists!

Welcome to my new site…this is where you will be able to upload and show your artwork for free…including, traditional art, abstract art and fantasy art!

This site will be linked to many websites soon, including eBay, where you can sell your art and link it to this site for extra coverage! We also have our own ‘sell your art’ page, which will be filling up gradually.

All art styles are to be included and discussed, including, Abstract Art and Fantasy Art.

Look out for our weekly art tips - just click on the category, ‘tip of the day’ and you will discover exciting ways to bring your art to life! You can also ask questions about art tips…all you have to do is leave a comment and you will receive a reply shortly afterwards.

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Water-Colour Paper – A Cheap Tip

WATER-COLOUR PAPER – A CHEAP TIP

A cheap way of getting water-colour paper to paint on, is to buy it in large sheets from art shops. You will need a board and gum tape…all very cheep. You can get a timber merchant to cut a piece of chip board to any size you need, just make sure it is big enough for the size of picture you want to paint. My board is about 3 feet by two and a half.

Painting Fine lines

PAINTING FINE LINES

A rigger brush is very useful for painting in fine lines, to either construct your painting or other fine line work like details in buildings. The bristles are long and fine so they hold a lot of paint but have a fine tip for the lines. I use one when i’m painting rigging on boats or ships and the radio wire on the fighter aircraft paintings running from the tail fin to the cockpit.

How To Sell Your Art On Here

HOW TO SELL YOUR ART ON HERE

To sell your art, please send me a picture of your painting – via email click on this

In order for your attachment to be opened, you need to put ‘Site For Artists’ in the email subject heading.

Then write in the email, who painted the picture and what price you want for it. Plus a small description about the picture.

I will then put your picture up here. There will be a link to your picture and the gallery on eBay.

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Composition Techniques

COMPOSITION TECHNIQUES

Part One

Today’s tips – Composition:

1. When adding a small amount of buildings/people/trees etc to a painting, it is important to add odd numbers. Therefore, if you add trees, add one, three, five, etc, instead of even numbers.

Modern Art

MODERN ART

Modern Art is often confused with Contemporary Art, but the two styles are centuries apart. Modern art began, ‘post impressionism’, primarily in the late 19th century and fizzled out in the previous century…around the 1960′s – 70′s. This is when Contemporary Art took over, and carries on today.

Creating Distance In Artwork

CREATING DISTANCE IN ARTWORK

Tips for today:

1. To create distance in any drawing or painting, you must bring warm colours forward, as opposed to thinned, cold colours to create a far away, distant look. For instance: if you are painting hills, the foreground hills are denser and warmer than the more distant hills, which are painted in cold, weaker colours.

Abstract Art

ABSTRACT ART

Abstract Art differs from Traditional Art, in that, where Traditional Art is a painting of the likeness of a subject or scene, Abstract Art is more focused on relaying an emotion or idea, instead of an actual ‘true’ portrayal of what is viewed before the artist. This is intended to create a challenge for Abstract admirers who attempt to discover the true meaning behind the painting.

Traditional Art

TRADITIONAL ART

A traditional artist is concerned with capturing a scene in its true form…how the painter observes it with the naked eye.

Fantasy Art

FANTASY ART

Fantasy Art is a form of paranormal/supernatural genre…encompassing a magical element to the art. I would have included UFO paintings in this style of art some years ago, had I not become open-minded to the reality of their existence.

Angels, fairies and dragons are a common representation of this art.

Amateur, fantasy paintings are referred too as ‘fanart’, which are not to be likened to the ‘Surrealist or pre-Raphaelite’ works of artists such as, Belgian, Rene Magritte (1898-1967), and his famous painting ‘The Castle In The Pyrenees’. Or the works of  English, Pre-Raphaelite artist, John William Waterhouse (1849-1917), with his ‘The Lady of Shalott’… shown in the picture below, of a woman dying of heart-break because Lancelot dismisses her love of him.

I love to paint Angels and fantasy art, which i will show in the gallery soon.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_art

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