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Lately, it’s been my custom to take images of my artwork via my camera phone. It’s economical, it easily transfers to my computer for web viewing and it’s really, really horrible image quality.
So, I have contracted out this little task to a great friend of mine who I help him with his blog on occasion, Claude Barclay has agreed to be my personal photographer for my artwork.
Claude is a professional photographer here in the central Ohio area and has been doing photography for… well, more years than I’ve been alive. He knows his stuff, and has the equipment to pull …read more

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Occasionally, I run across a site that is yet unlaunched but promises to be a great little endeavor in the future. Here is an ad from one that I think will be a great opportunity to be a part of.

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Okay, so I learned a lesson with Acrylics and Masking tape on my cubic abstract project.
They don’t work well together.
Maybe if I had rolled paint onto the canvas this would have worked, but I used a brush.
The paint migrated underneath the tape causing weird runs.
Not really what I was intending here.
The funny thing about a technique that doesn’t work is well, now you know.

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Tatyana writes in her response to my post “Let Google Sell your art for you“

I have 2 questions regarding the subject:
1. How to really make Google SELL art for you? As advised in this post I listed a couple of works on Google Base but with no positive end result so far: the paintings have been on GBase for 3 weeks and they had only 6 impressions so far (the amount of time Google actually showed them). Do you have any advice how to at least increase the visibility?
2. What is so unique about www.artflock.com? What do they do better …read more

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I’ve been getting into Picasso’s work a lot more lately, and decided that I need to make it my own and work with the cubic form just a little more.
So, starting off this painting is a whole lot of masking tape.
I have cuts on the inside of my hand where I was pulling the tape off the roll and it would spin.
Part of this is that I wanted to mimic glass breaking out toward the viewer.
This is more planning than I usually put into a work, but I seem to already see the finished product in …read more

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Sometimes there are things you run across that just make you want to go “huh?” then click the button again to see what else pops up.
Here’s one I found particularly interesting. Click the guy to generate a random slogan.
Updated: The little jingle sound it makes got so annoying, I had to move it to the more tag. So click the “read more” below to experience the joy it can bring.

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This guy does a huge mural of Bruce Lee. It’s also a nice example of using high contrast in your art.

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Did you know that I also accept submissions for artwork on Artist Hideout?
Anyway, if you have something you want to share, you can do so by clicking the text below.

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