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Ruth Read, awarded artist and author started teaching Children’s Art Classes in Arcadia, California. Her students love it – and so does Ruth.

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Sri Rajes’ fourth art tips-and-tricks lesson is not about how to paint flowers but How to Paint Sea Themes. She uses a unique 3D style and all kinds of natural materials to create lots of different sea-themed paintings. This way of creating art works most reminds of childhood playfulness. Love it, hope you do to!

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Here’s the second lesson in How to Paint Flowers series of lessons by Singaporean artist Sri Rajes who is kind enough to share her art tips and tricks with you. You’re more than welcome to try them out and leave the comments, questions, ideas and let us know about the results you achieve while using Sri Rajes’ technique.

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Image by naoK via Flickr We are now quickly approaching 750th comment on this blog – and a new winner who will receive an art photo print by award winning artist Ruth Read. Click on the link below to see the details, the prizes and rules of the Comment and Win Contest. Good luck everyone [...]

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Trompe l’oeil art is French for “trick the eye” and an art technique that creates the optical illusion by using extremely realistic imagery. Depicted images appear in three dimensions and are often used in murals. Although the phrase originates in the Baroque period, trompe l’oeil art dates much further back, at least into Greek and Roman times. Art murals by John Pugh, astonishing trompe l’oeil art images painted on the sides of buildings, look so real that have tricked many…

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Christine Hogan from California makes beautiful gourd art from the gourds, grown in her own garden and uses variety of subject matters and media in her artistic endeavors. Today let’s take a peek at her oil painting gallery. Enjoy!

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LFAC Art Festival

by Doroteja on July 16, 2009

in Art contest

Chicago’s Life Force Art Center is holding a multi-arts festival from September 30 to October 30. They are looking for art with the theme of “Emergence of the Divine Feminine”. Anyone can enter, read more…

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Magnificent Ice Sculptures

by Erik on July 8, 2009

in Cool designs

A great collection of ice sculpture pictures. With pictures of ice sculptures from several popular festivals and celebrations of winter. Something to cool you off this summer!

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Farrah Fawcett art

by Daria on June 30, 2009

in Art is Everywhere

Farrah Fawcett (February 2, 1947 – June 25, 2009), an actress, multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee achieved her international fame as soon as she first appeared in the role of private investigator by the name of Jill Munroe in the TV series Charlie’s Angels. That was in 1976. Later she successfully played many roles in challenging, yet highly rated movies. To most people Farrah Fawcett is probably best known as a pop…

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The first week Photo of the Week challenge on Rocket Moms is Terry Boroff aka flipflopnana. Here’s her description of the winning shot: “This photo is one of my favorites and was taken on a family outing with my kids and grandkids to Silver Springs in FL. It is taken from the top of the [...]

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