By Pippa Le Grand in How To
What I’m missing right now are the spontaneous activities that keep life interesting. Popping into a busy city gallery during a shopping trip or strolling through a cool museum on a hot day is a joy for many art lovers.…
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By Katrina Mirpuri in How To
For artists, Instagram plays a big role in debuting new work and prompting business opportunities. Here’s how to use it to your advantage.
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By Pippa Le Grand in How To
Looking for inspiration? Get your hands dirty with clay, glue and wire to try out different shapes, textures and patterns.
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By Rebecca Wall in Art And Culture
The Artist Support Pledge is a way for artists to help each other during these uncertain times.
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By Rebecca Wall in How To
Even as many governments worldwide begin to ‘reopen’ their economies after coronavirus-related shutdowns, it will be a long road to recovery. The Bank of England has predicted that the UK is facing its sharpest recession on record — in April, its economy…
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By Katrina Mirpuri in How To
Even Picasso would need to have his Instagram in shape if he wanted to get noticed in 2020.
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By Gavin Lenaghan in Art And Culture, How To
Do you struggle to decide what to wear to an art gallery or exhibition opening? If so, swot up on our handy dress-code tips at ArtWeb.
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By Gavin Lenaghan in Artwork, How To, Resources
Given the many other labour-intensive and time-consuming stages of printmaking – not least the production of the matrix, such as the plate, block or stone that carries the image information to be printed – choosing your printing paper can seem…
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By Gavin Lenaghan in How To
Learn about 5 techniques that will help you to get more out of acrylic painting, with the help of ArtWeb.
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By Gavin Lenaghan in How To
Is screen printing one of the most traditional of fine art processes, or instead a relatively recent development in printing? From a certain perspective, one could say it to be both; after all, stencilled handprints were among the very first…
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By Gavin Lenaghan in How To
Outdoor painting still has many potential benefits, including in how it forces an artist to look hard at a subject and make quick decisions as to how to depict it.
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By Adriana Paradiso in Events & Review
A list of some fantastic artist events coming up in the month of February, submitted by the ArtWeb community: National Association of Women Artists – Small Works Winter 2020 Sixty-three paintings, photography, prints, mixed media, sculptures no larger than 15 in. x…
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By Gavin Lenaghan in How To
Whether you are a complete printmaking or etching novice or someone possessing a certain level of familiarity with these processes, you could be forgiven for being confused about the term ‘aquatint’ and precisely what it means. Aquatint, in a nutshell,…
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By Adriana Paradiso in Events & Review
A list of some fantastic artist events coming up in the month of January, submitted by the ArtWeb community: Alchemy An exhibition of new work by TAG (Textile Art Group) on the theme of Alchemy which includes some of their eco-printing experiments…
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