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Volume 5, Number 1  
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Announcing location painting workshop - Mt. Shasta, California

ANNOUNCING!
Location Painting Workshop Mt. Shasta! 2008
Discover the secrets of painting

WHEN:
April 18,19,20   
May 16,17,18  
June 20,21,22 Click here for more information

WHERE:     The Grand View Ranch  Mt. Shasta  California.
Contact Stefan Baumann 415-606-9074 or email Stefan_Baumann@yahoo.com
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New Year and New Beginnings
By Stefan Baumann

Stefan Baumann - A waterfall and oaksBecoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal.  Painting involves skills that can be learned; but if you want to make “art,” you must accept yourself.

If ordinary people make art, then you would have to allow that the ideal artist would be an ordinary person too, with the whole usual mixed bag of flaws that makes us human.

Our flaws and weaknesses, while often obstacles to getting our work done, are a source of strength as well.  Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity to do things in ways we have always known we should and start to change ways that don’t work for us anymore.
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Keeping Energy in Large Outdoor Paintings
By Armand Cabrera

Armand Cabrera - Midday Corte Madera Creek
Armand Cabrera
Midday Corte Madera Creek
24x30 - ol
Artists rarely challenge themselves to paint large outdoors.  Bumping up the energy in the paint application can be the obstacle that keeps artists from creating bigger paintings.  Larger paintings lose their energy by becoming overworked and tightly rendered. 

To keep the same dynamic brushwork in your larger paintings, scale up your brushes:

  • If you use numbers 4, 6, and 8 bristle flats on your small pieces---
  • use numbers 14, 16, and 18 bristle flats on the big paintings
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Master Outdoor Painters

Frederick Judd WaughFrederick Judd Waugh
By Armand Cabrera

Frederick Judd Waugh was born in Bordentown, New Jersey on September 13, 1861.  He was the youngest of five children.  His father, Samuel Bell Waugh, was an accomplished portrait painter.

At nineteen, Waugh attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art for three years, studying under Thomas Eakins and Thomas Anschutz.  Upon his graduation, Frederick sought further study in Paris at the Academie Julian under Adolphe William Bouguereau and Robert Fleury.
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Quote of the Month

I say if you can do so, grab the whole thing in one continuous period of time. Your work will have the vitality and snap it needs to convey its full significance.
~Frederick Judd Waugh
Kenn Backhaus - Along Dream Lake
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Armand Cabrera

Congratulations to Armand Cabrera!
He is featured in the February/March Issue of International Artist Magazine.
This 10-page article features a demonstration of how to paint from a small sketch to a larger painting.
Be sure to pick up a copy or subscribe to this informative magazine.
more info/
www.international-artist.com
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