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• Keep your pencil points sharp, sharp tips work best.

• Don't just use one color, try using several layers of different colors together to add some spark and life to your drawings.

• Beware of over saturating your paper's surface with too much color, the color will start to no longer adhere to the paper's surface. It will also start to wear and possibly tear the surface of the paper or board.

• Be careful when applying heavy pressure, such as when you burnish, sometimes pencils tend to flake. To remove the flakes I use a brush or tissue.

• To remove wax bloom (a build-up of wax on the surface of the paper), wipe the surface of the paper with a soft tissue and then lightly spray the drawing with 2 to 4 layers with Krylon workable fixatif. The fixatif will prevent wax bloom.

• To create vivid intense colors, try using a solvent (turpenoid, liquin, Berol Prisma colorless blender markers, bistine, mineral spirits, baby wipes).

• Make sure to add a good range of values throughout your drawing.

• Make sure you apply all elements of design in your drawings-line, texture, shape, value, space, form and color.

• To add life to your work, try varying the color intensity in your artwork.

• Make sure the color temperature (warm and cool areas) in your drawings are well balanced.

• Try creating different moods, by drawing on different colored papers.

• Make sure to keep the surface of your paper clean, by using a drafting brush to sweep away debris and dust. I personally, like to use a makeup brush. It works great, especially on small portraits.

• When working on a tonal drawing, work from dark to light.

• Keep pencil strokes even, and consistent in pressure and in direction.

• Start off with light pressure when adding layers of color and gradually increase your pressure.


Alt Film Guide (blog)

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Hollywood Reporter
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David Choe, the art world's soon-to-be Facebook millionaire
Washington Post
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CBS Local

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Forbes

A Super Bowl Close-Up For The Indianapolis Arts Scene
Forbes
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Orlando Sentinel

Mount Dora Arts Festival has judges on the run
Orlando Sentinel
By Ludmilla Lelis, Orlando Sentinel A casual art lover could easily spend both days of the 37 t h annual Mount Dora Arts Festival wandering the booths to savor the dazzling array of paintings, ceramics, handcrafted jewelry and graphic prints.

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Galleries: 'Willie Cole: Deep Impressions' emphasizes artist's ties to Newark, NJ
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Edith Newhall "Home and Hearth," a 2011 serigraph on paper, is part of the "Willie Cole: Deep Impressions" exhibition at the Rowan University Art Gallery. If you admire the fertile imagination of Willie Cole, do not miss the excellent and easygoing ...

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Los Angeles Times

Dorothea Tanning dies at 101; artist and poet married Max Ernst
Los Angeles Times
Living and working alongside husband Max Ernst for decades, Dorothea Tanning made paintings and sculptures in the shadow of an art world legend. She created many of her stunning works despite regular interruptions by visiting luminaries.
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Art Abounds Downtown for First Friday
Patch.com
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Wired News

Mark Zuckerberg, the Hacker Way, and the Art of the Founder's Letter
Wired News
By Steven Levy For a founder of a highly touted Internet company undertaking an IPO, the “Letter to Shareholders” in the S-1 prospectus has become a rarefied form of performance art. Going public is the purest capitalist act — a deep and unambiguous ...

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Wink News

Art along the river
Wink News
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