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Limited Palette Methodology E-mail

Limited Palette Methodology: By Don Finkeldei:  A structured way of thinking in terms of   temperature, value, hue and saturation using gray moderators. 

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Advantages of a Limited Palette with Gray Moderators E-mail

Advantages of a Limited Palette with Gray Moderators: By Don Finkeldei.  Using  primary colors of Red, yellow and blue with gray's mixed from the primaries makes painting simpler and easier to understand because it forces you  to learn the basics of mixing hue, value and intensity of chroma (color). 

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Landscape Artists I Admire E-mail

Artists I Admire.  By Don Finkeldei.  A list of artists that I admire and some links to websites that have information on them.  I've collected information from all these artists.  I owe them all for what I know.

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Varnishing Paintings E-mail

Varnishing Paintings.  By Don Finkeldei.  Some answers about varnish and protecting your paintings.

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How to Judge Values in Oil Painting E-mail

How to Judge Values in Oil Painting.  By Don Finkeldei.  One of the hardest things for an artist to do is develop a natural  ability to judge values in a  plein air landscape scene and then translate that value to the canvas.

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Painting with a Limited Palette E-mail

Painting with a limited Palette using the three primary colors.  By Don Finkeldei.  Using a limited palette to paint has many advantages.  Learn how I paint using only the three primary colors (and a couple variations when needed).

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Photographing Artwork with a Digital Camera E-mail

Photographing Artwork with a Digital Camera By Don Finkeldei.  What you need to know about taking digital pictures.  What type of camera do you need?  megapixles?  Zoom?  How can I take the best pictures possible?

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Evaluating Values in Photoshop E-mail

Evaluating Values in Photoshop.  By Don Finkeldei.  How to evaluate values in your painting by using Photoshop to turn a color image of your painting to grayscale.  Doing this will greatly accelerate your learning curve

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Types of Light and Value Planes E-mail

Types of Light and Value Planes by Don Finkeldei: There are  4 value planes and 5 types of light that you need to deal with as a minimum in a landscape painting .  These are broad generalities - not an absolute rule.  Understanding the types of planes, different kinds of light sources, direction of the light source and how each type of plane is influenced by the light and how they relate to each other will help you create a more believable painting.

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Paint, Brushes and mediums E-mail

Paint, Brushes and mediums, By Don Finkeldei.  Some sugestions about paints and palate layout.  Also, some tips about brushes and mediums than can help you become a better painter.

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Art- Preparing and Mixing your Paints E-mail

Preparing and Mixing your Paints. By Don Finkeldei:  Do your thinking on the palette.  If you  work out your values and colors before applying paint, you'll keep from mucking things up on the canvas.

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How to Mix Grays for Use with a Limited Palette E-mail

How to Mix Grays for Use with a limited Palette:  by Don Finkeldei.  This article describes how I premix warm and cool grays for use with my limited palette.

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Slide show of a Painting in Progress E-mail

 Slide Show of a Painting in Progress.  By Don Finkeldei.  This is a slide show of how I progress through a painting from initial drawing to laying in the paint. 

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Using Grays in Your Oil Painting E-mail

Using Grays in your Oil Painting.  By Don Finkeldei.  How to achieve harmony, balance and reserve in your oil painting by pre-mixing grays from the primary colors.

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Painting Sky and Clouds E-mail

Painting Sky and Clouds.  By Don Finkeldei.  Some tips and rules to paint a realistic sky and clouds.

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Plein Air Painting E-mail

Plein Air painting by Don Finkeldei.  What you need to take when plein air landscape painting.  The preparation, equipment, supplies, weather precautions and planning needed for a successful outing.  I wrote this checklist as I was preparing for a plein air landscape painting trip.

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Digital Imaging for Artists E-mail
Digital Imaging for Artists By Don Finkeldei.  What you need to know about digital images, file types, printing vs. viewing with a monitor, cameras and how to take a great photo of your artwork.
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Manipulating Images in Photoshop E-mail

Manipulating Images in Photoshop.  By Don Finkeldei: How to use Photoshop to crop, Adjust color, format for website (jpg), email (jpg) or printing (high resolution tiff).

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The Color Wheel E-mail

The Color Wheel . By Don Finkeldei:  This is pretty basic stuff  for experienced painters -- but -- you cannot be an experienced painter without nowing this.

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Pre Painting Analysis of a Subject E-mail

Pre-Painting Analysis of a Subject Before Starting to Paint.  By Don Finkeldei.  Before painting you should have a clear vision of the result.   This article contains a checklist of things you should know  before starting -- and things you should keep in mind while painting.

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Preparing the Drawing for an Oil Painting E-mail

Preparing the Drawing for an Oil Painting by Don Finkeldei: A loose, quick drawing on the canvas is better than a detailed drawing.  Make your lines very loose.

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Understanding Edges in Oil Painting E-mail

Understanding Edges in Oil Painting, By Don Finkeldei: The degree of hardness or softness in transitions between boundaries of different  colors and values.

 

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