Jan 17, 2025 | art materials, Art News, Artist interview, Instructors, instructors, Interviews, Tips for Artists
“Rescued II” by Olga Krimon, 15″x15″, oil on Belgian linen with 22K gold and silver leaf The Allure of Gold Leaf Fascinated by the radiant shimmer of gold leaf in Olga Krimon’s innovative oil paintings, we knew we had to learn...
Jan 15, 2024 | Help for Artists, Tips for Artists, Tips Tricks and Art Hacks, tricks and Hacks for Artists
(Image: FineArtLight) Art Illuminates your soul. Here are some tips about illuminating artwork. When choosing where to hang a piece of art, we usually think in terms of space and the design of the room. We ask ourselves if it would look good in a certain...
Mar 29, 2022 | Art News, Artist interview, Interviews, scholarship, Tips for Artists, Tips Tricks and Art Hacks
Scholarship Program 2020 Once a year, we offer a scholarship to one of our exclusive workshops. The recipient is an up-and-coming artist faithfully chasing their future goals. We do this because we’re very interested in inspiring those who are dedicated to painting...
Feb 24, 2022 | Art History, art materials, Provence
The Bedroom Vincent van Gogh, Arles, October 1888 Left as it looks now, right a digital reproduction of the original colors. Images from the Van Gough Museum Alizarin and Fugitives Vincent van Gogh’s “The Bedroom” gives a first hand look at the...
Aug 19, 2021 | art materials, Tips for Artists, Tips Tricks and Art Hacks
Yellow Ochre On Your Palette The ochre family of paints is a well-loved addition to any artist’s palette today but turn the clock back long ago before these colors were milled and mixed and forced into tubes as paint. Yellow and red ochres are abundant in...
Dec 1, 2020 | ways to promote art, Help for Artists, Tips Tricks and Art Hacks
Take the Thinking Out of Instagram Hashtags. There are plenty of reasons to use hashtags on social media. By the way, when we talk about social media for artists we’re really talking about Instagram. And the one thing that we know about Instagram is that it’s far...