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View the artist’s urban- and nature-inspired watercolors in this online gallery.
Click here to view Ann DeLaurentis' Watercolor gallery » 

As a workshop teacher, I critique my students' paintings every day. Thanks to this, I've learned how to critique my own. Here's what I look for.
Read more about self-critiquing your artwork » 

Check out this list of too-good-to-miss resources for plein air artists.
Check out these plein air books » 

Betsy Dillard Stroud experiments with two kinds of acrylic paints (featured in the October 2009 issue of Watercolor Artist). 
See the artist's acrylic experiments » 

Click here for a gallery of Lois Gold's meditative pastel landscapes.
Click here to see the paintings » 

See the winner of the Spring Non-Floral challenge in the All-Media Paint-Off.
See the Spring Nonfloral All-Media Paint-Off winner » 

In this demonstration from her book Art Revolution, Lisa L. Cyr use multiple substrates, collage, assemblage, embossing and debossing relief treatments and lushly painted patinas to create her award-winning work The Courageous.
See Lisa L. Cyr's step-by-step demonstration » 

For the Five Objects challenge in the All-Media Paint-Off, artists were asked to paint a still life that included these five objects: a feather, a key, a candle, a scarf and a pen. See the winner.
See the winner of the Five Objects All-Media Paint-Off winner » 

 

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