Author: Anita Louise Hummel
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Start Painting For Your Mental Health, Happiness & Wellbeing.
I know when I was considering starting to oil paint, I wondered if this was something I wanted to really start doing. Starting up a new hobby oil painting, can take a lot of time and effort, so you may be asking yourself if it is really worth that time and effort. I have found…
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Is Oil Painting Hard to Learn?
I know when I first thought about starting to oil paint, I was pretty overwhelmed. I felt like maybe really learning to oil paint was just too hard and I could not do it. Learning to oil paint is actually no more difficult than learning to paint in any other medium. But to master oil…
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Should an Artist Write a Blog? Your Top 7 Questions Answered
Writing a blog is not easy. It requires time and commitment. It also means that you need actually to write while also having something relevant to say. So many artists ask themselves if they should really spend the time to write a blog? I know I also asked myself that very same question. A blog…
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6 Reasons Why Every Artist Should Use Pinterest
For a long time, I was not sure if I really needed to have a Pinterest account. After all, we all seem to have so many social media accounts that sometimes it can be hard to keep up with them all. Every artist needs to have a Pinterest account and to be active on Pinterest.…
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Why Was Impressionism Art At First Rejected?
I recently watched a movie about Vincent Van Gogh called At Eternity’s Gate, a beautiful movie about the life of Vincent Van Gogh. When I watched the movie, I thought, “Why were so many impressionist artists so widely rejected during their lifetime?” During the emergence of impressionism art, fine art oil painting was an essential…
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Am I Too Old To Start Oil Painting?
This is the question that I asked myself many times as I was learning to oil paint. I started to really learn to oil paint when I was in my late 50’s. Like many of you, I felt that maybe I had missed my prime, and I was just too old to learn how to paint.…
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How To Deal With Creative and Artistic Rejection?
Not Everyone Will Like Your Art -Why That Is OK When I first started to oil paint, I would be so worried when I showed people my art that they would not like it, or they would think I was such a lousy painter but will be too polite to really tell me what they…