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My career goal in high school was to become an artist. I received an art scholarship to a local community college. Within the first year I found myself taking technical and business classes. Over the years I have strayed very far from the art realm, but have found that I still like to dabble in it. I have started a personal art blog that includes scans of my attempts at being artistic and my thoughts on each piece.

Book corner

I have now 4 books for watercolor and colored pencils. Each book covers the basics, but they each expand into their own unique demonstrations and studies, making them all useful to a budding young artist.
	A christmas present, filled with demonstrations. lots of outdoor practice including demonstrations on atmospheric and natural effects, like smoke, water ripples, foliage etc. One section is intriguing to me, though I am not ready to tackle it just yet, it is a section on how to approach watercolor on a large scale
	This came with the above book for Christmas. I like the seascapes section. In fact this section is what I used to do my first wave painting. There is a section on animals as well as children in watercolor. I practiced seagulls as well.
	This book has been very handy for me as I explore Watercolor painting after a 25 year sabbatical. The explanations are good, and the book is indeed FAT, or full of examples and step-by-step practice lessons. Over the holiday(2006) I did a study on desert colors. Continuing the landscape theme, I used an exercise from this book in June 2006 to practice painting forests. I documented the steps I took and scanned in the piece at variuos steps along the way. Read my How To I created.
	I think this book could have some more Step-by-steps, but this isn't a "BIG FAT" book like the watercolor book. it was very helpful for me to use it since I have very little experience with colored pencils. I don't feel I am very good at colored pencil, I think the medium lacks the details I tend to like to work on. I have a few nice colored pieces out of exploring, and without this book I would never have finished any pieces at all.

This is a very well done site. Love the art too! Digging into the content, I found a great tutorial from the artist on using photoshop to create a piece of art.

Art Tips and How tos

Art organization and presentation tactics as well as reviews of various products. focus is on anything EXCEPT "how to paint" or "how to draw".

Matting your art

A very long, detailed article on all aspects of matting art for sale.

My art blog

Here are some examples of my own finished pieces as well as some details about each one.

My CafePress watercolor gallery

A great selection of watercolor prints from the shops at CafePress.

Artist Terms

Creative painting and art resources

Byron Birdsall - watercolor artist

I have collected his watercolor limited editions for many years...

Island Art Publishers

Wholesale publisher and distributor of Art reproductions and Art Products. Emphasis on the Pacific Northwest.

Photoshop art

I have been keeping tabs on this fella, Chris Nolan for a few years now. He is a very good photo manipulator in Photoshop, very artistic...

Watercolor Painting

site with great tips and instructions on watercolor painting.

Watercolors

A far more technical site on watercolors, very detailed.

Your Art Links - yourartlinks.com

This is a directory listing site that is very "stuffed" with art resources.

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