7 colors contrast by Johannes Itten

Johannes Itten, painter, designer and teacher in the Bauhaus school, he´s the first to make a theory about the possible types of contrasts that are produced by the different features…

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Neutral and gray colors

The colors black, white and gray are achromatic colors, without color hue. They are the opposite of a pure color. And they are also the colors near the black or…

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The perspectives

The perspective is a series of practical and logical rules according to human vision. They serve to create the illusion of three-dimensional space and depth on a flat surface such…

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Compositional elements in painting

This is a short list of the most important elements to consider for creating and composing images. Composition Rule of thirds by Nevit Dilmen . Compositional elements: 1- The Rhythm…

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The golden ratio

The golden ratio is based on a measure or number also called golden, and represented by the Greek letter φ (fi) (lowercase) o Φ (fi) (capitalize). It is a ratio…

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The contrast of light in paint

Light can be represented in painting in all the very different degrees of intensity that exists. When the light has a bright and deep degree, close to white color, this…

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The diffuse light in painting

When we are painting a scene or some characters but we do not mark the contrast of lights and shadows, that is, everything has a smooth tonal graduation and the…

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Pastel painting

The Pastel is a dry painting technique with excellent quality. The sticks are composed of pigment and tragacanth gum as a binder. The pastel has a velvety appearance on the…

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Creativity and meditation with Meera

Meera Hashimoto is an artist who stands out as an art teacher that knows how to use dynamic meditation in our creative process, how to know ourselves better with it,…

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Oil Paint Recipe

The oil paints recipe is the manufacture of a medium or oily binder. Once we have the binder, with this and pigments we will join it with a spatula or…

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Zoltan Szabo watercolors

This watercolor painter paints natural subjects with a very great wisdom. It uses all the tricks and techniques that must be known if painting with watercolor. Even a subject as…

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Contemporary watercolorists

Some watercolor painters today made ​​some excellent works that I keep in my blog. For example, artists like John Blockley, Philip Jamison and Richard Bolton, alongside some more. Watercolor is…

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Painting styles. Aztec style

One of the most important artistic styles, which is part of the art of pre-Columbian culture. In the pictorial style of the Aztecs is the creation of the characters (mostly…

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Egyptian Art Style

One of the most amazing artistic styles is the Egyptian Art. The paintings of Egyptian art have many fans and it´s still very popular today and it inspires new artists.…

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Surrealism: The painters of dreams

"Surrealism relies in the belief of a superior reality of certain forms of association, not taken into account until today, in the omnipotence of dream and unselfish thought process. Definitely…

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The point. energy concentrated

The point If we want to create an image with a point of attraction for the look, nothing better than creating an exact point where we want our eyes go.…

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Contemporary American Painting Abstract Art

Some of the most renowned painters of contemporary abstraction in America are Tomory Dodge, Chris Finley, Carrier Moyer, Elizabeth Neel, Krin Dave, Peter Peri and Daniel Hesidence. All of them…

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Van Gogh´s flowers

I present here some works of the great painter. The character mix of the artist is so explosive that as a result we have these works of exceptional quality. How…

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