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Vector Layer Your Line Art!
I’ve been using Clip Studio Paint for a few years now and the vector layer is one of my favorite features. While they aren’t true vector layers per se (you can’t…
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30 Queer Artists to Celebrate Pride Month
Pride month has 30 days, so let’s talk about 30 queer artists that challenged the heteronorms of their times! These artists explored sexuality and gender identity, capturing their own queer experiences…
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: 10 Things You Should Know
“I’m not a real person. I’m a legend.” — JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT 1. Basquiat learned anatomy because of an accident At age 7 Basquiat was hit by a car and his injuries…
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How to Use Your Araneariums
Last time we built our five araneariums and now it’s time to learn how to use an aranearium. Here we reference Secret #16 – The Secret of the Retrospective Utilization of…
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Dalí Teaches Us About the Aranearium
Salvador Dalí was a super weird wildly eccentric person. Ten seconds of Google will net you dozens of articles outlining the better-than-fiction details of his life. He thought he was the…
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AI Wrote This Post About Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe had such a prolific career and interesting life that one little blog post would not nearly be enough to talk about her. Still, that’s not the reason I did…
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Marie Laurencin vs. Otto van Waëtjen – Which Artist Did It Better?
Happy Birthday, Marie Laurencin! Remember that husband of hers that thought he was the better artist? If you Google his name you get results for her work. Try it – his…
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Marie Laurencin’s Ethereal Women
When I first saw the work of Marie Laurencin I wanted to melt into each painting and become part of the ethereal intimacy she created with every composition. Was that a…
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October Artist of the Month: Marie Laurencin
Can you believe it’s October already?? Our tenth Artist of the Month this year is French artist Marie Laurencin. One of the few female Cubist painters (though she didn’t like to…
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A Collage of Failure?
For the September Artist of the Month (Romare Bearden) I pretty much HAD to do a collage. The thing is, I didn’t know what it should be about. I’ve never especially…
