Gregg Visintainer Finds an Emotional Outlet in Drawing
Gregg Visintainer has made a career from expressing himself creatively through pen and ink drawings.
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Childhood Stories of Paint by Number
Creating amazing paintings using paint by number kits ranks high on the list of favorite childhood activities for scores of people. Are you one of those individuals who has cherished memories of paint by number?
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Color Blocking Makes for Artful Fashion
Color blocking is nothing more than art adapted to fit the human body in the form of certain clothing/color combinations. What’s more, fashionable color blocking is easy to do.
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Color Theory Basics: The Color Wheel
SegPlay® Mobile iTunes now available for iPhone and iPad The world is filled with infinite shades of color, from a candy-apple-red sports car to a smoldering orange sunset to the crisp green of springtime grass. The popular color wheel simplifies the shades into 12 distinct colors to help illustrate the variations. Arranged in a circle…
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Using Complimentary Colors
For some artists, the use of complimentary colors may seem like the basic of the basics. Without much thought they may discount their effect and use them as if they are second nature. But let’s not forget, sometimes simplicity can be the most elegant and (ironically) sophisticated approach to an artists color scheme. Using complimentary…
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Introduction to Color Expert Johannes Itten
“Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead.” – Johannes Itten When you take an art course on color theory, you can thank Johannes Itten for laying much of the foundation for what you’re being taught. Johannes Itten was a Swiss artist and teacher who taught at the Bauhaus in…
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