Stephen Bennett moved from New York to Mexico 15 years ago and started painting large, colorful acrylic paintings of people in his newfound community. He discovered a new direction for his life and his art, one that allows him to connect with portrait clients, indigenous people, and enthusiastic children around the world.
View an online exclusive gallery of Bennett's portraits.
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Denise LaRue Mahlke believes that being an artist is a calling that involves preserving, celebrating, and sharing in God’s creation. That’s one of the reasons she challenges herself to strive for excellence as a pastel painter and a teacher.
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As a largely self-taught artist, California plein air painter and instructor Frank Serrano can certainly relate to those who attend workshops to further enhance their skills. We recently caught up with this popular artist-instructor in between his weekly landscape-painting classes in Southern California to learn more about his approach as an artist and his methods as an instructor.
Pay careful attention to edges and incorporate foreground colors into the background to create a unified composition.
Read the transcript from yesterday's live online chat with colored pencil artist Arlene Steinberg.
Be sure to attend our next live chat with pastel artist Janet Monafo on Monday, June 9 at 2pm EST.
Have more to say about working with colored pencils? Chat with fellow artists on our message board, Artists' Forum.
Enter American Artist's Self-Portrait Competition, and win valuable prizes!
Extended entry deadline: May 19, 2008
If you are chosen, your artwork will also be reproduced in the print edition of American Artist, on the magazine’s website, and in one of the magazine’s e-newsletters.
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Watercolor Highlights - Spring 2008
