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Book Review: Letter Art: 35 Stylish Letters to Make and Give
Here's a book I borrowed from the library. Letter Art is a beautiful book on making your own typography handicraft. These handicrafts, as shown by the many examples, look absolutely terrific when used...
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How to Use One Point Perspective to Sketch Accurate Angles Outdoors
For more of my sketching tips, visit this Youtube playlist and this page.Tags: sketching tipsvideomy sketching tips
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Book Review: The Art of Illustrated Maps: A Complete Guide to Creative...
The Art of Illustrated Maps provides a very detailed look into the history of illustrated mapmaking from almost 2,000 years ago to present day. It talks about the significance maps have over the years,...
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Singapore River by Elgin Bridge
It was a really hot day today in Singapore. The sky was overcast, mainly because of the haze from Indonesia forest fire. Thank goodness the air quality is still not too bad. I've started using the new...
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Book Review: A Tech Guide for Signage
The author Mike Burke sent me the e-book version of his latest book A Tech Guide for Signage for this review. It looks useful so I'm going to share it here. I wondered why he used the word "tech"...
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Craftsy courses at 50% for Nov 2015
Below are some video tutorial courses at 50% off on Craftsy right now. I've specially picked the ones that I've reviewed and really worth the money.Sketching Landscapes in Pen, Ink &...
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Review: Simple Techniques for Better Portraits by Alisha Dall'Osto (Craftsy)
Alisha Oall'Osto is a professional artist and instructor based in Seattle. She has been teaching drawing and figurative art for more than ten years in various schools. Alisha has a course on Craftsy...
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Dell UP3216Q, UP2716D & UP2516D monitors for artists and graphic designers
Dell has just released new monitors in time for the 2015 holiday season. And they are bloody good monitors coming at a time when I'm looking to upgrade mine. I've been using the Dell 2711 for years and...
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Peter Mohrbacher talks about good and bad art
Peter Mohrbacher has written an insightful article on good and bad art, assessment and specifically on how artists are their own worst critics. Read it at...
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Book Review: The Art of Halo 5: Guardians
The Art of Halo 5 is an awesome sci-fi game artbook. It's as good as, if not slightly better than, Awakening: The Art of Halo 4 which is the artbook for the previous game.Nicolas Bouvier, aka Sparth,...
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IMFA #13: The best social media site to promote your art?
Let's talk about how you promote your art with social media websites. How do you promote your art so that people know that you exist? How do you build a fan base? Which social media site is the best...
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Book Review: Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
Since we move in TIME through a SEQUENCE of SPACES revealed for everyoneA welcome fourth edition of Francis Ching's excellent book on the fundamentals of architecture. Ching (now seventy-two) seems to...
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Review: Colored Pencil Essentials by Susan Rubin (Craftsy)
I've finally found a coloured pencil course that I enjoy, that uses the same set of coloured pencils I'm using, and where the instructor is amazing. Susan Rubin is a botanical artist from Colorado,...
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Book Review: John Baeder's Road Well Taken
On the road with the diner kingThe back cover of this chunky book has an interesting photo of John Baeder standing next to his 1975 'The Magic Chef' painting (part of it is on the front cover, too)...
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Book Review: NOW ~ Yusuke Nakamura Illustration Art works
Yusuke Nakamura (中村佑介) is a Japanese illustrator known for his use of striking colours with bold graphic illustrations. He actually has an earlier artbook by the name of Blue - 中村佑介画集 that was released...
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Using white gel pens with watercolour
Using white gel pens is an easy way to introduce white back into watercolour sketches. It's definitely more convenient than using masking fluid and for outdoor sketches, you don't have to bring...
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Book Review: Art and the War at Sea 1914-1945
See artUnlike the army or the air force whose actions are clear to see after the event naval activity is not so easily captured visually. Sea battles take place without seeing the enemy, submarines are...
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3000 subscribers on my Youtube channel! Yeah!
My personal Youtube channel has reached 3000 subscribers. Exciting! Check out the channel if you like ink and watercolour sketching. Tags: parkablogs
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Vietnamese magazine Muc Tim stole and used comic strips from my friend Eva
My friend Eva, a comic artist in Singapore, has had her comic strips stolen and used by a Vietnamese magazine Muc Tim. While copyright laws are clear, actually enforcing them if the other party is...
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Book Review: The Art of Pan
The Art and Making of PanWhile I had planned to watch the movie Pan, I decided against it when most reviews quite unfavourable. If you have not watched the movie, this book doesn't give away much in...
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