Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Feb 7, 2012, 8:50 pm
Guitar Chord Lesson -- Learn to Play Am9 Learn how to play the Am9 Guitar Chord (also known as A minor 9, A Minor 9th) with this free tutorial.  This is an advanced lesson.  If you would like to learn a beginner version of this chord, follow this link for an easy Am9 guitar chord. In order to fi...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Feb 6, 2012, 9:33 pm
by Will Kemp with Will Kemp Art School Let’s be honest, colour mixing can be frustrating. You’ve mastered the colour wheel, you understand complementary colours and may have either dabbled with a few different colour schemes but why do you paintings still not work? Why don’t they balance an...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Feb 4, 2012, 6:36 pm
Learn How to Play the Song “One” by U2 This is a great acoustic guitar lesson of the hit song “One ” by U2.   This song is the third track off of the popular album “Achtung Baby ” released in 1991. “One” was released as the third single off of the album in March of 1992...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Feb 3, 2012, 2:42 pm
About Karin Karin Wells is an artist of amazing versatility. She graduated with honors from both the New England School of Art and Design, Boston, 1965, and the Butera School of Art, Boston, 1986. Karin has enjoyed a career as an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator and sign painter. She...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Feb 2, 2012, 1:07 pm
Learn how to Play the A7 Guitar Chord We covered an easy beginner version of the A7 Guitar Chord on this site in the past.  In this post, we will look at some advanced voicings for the A Dominant 7th chord. The A7 chord is a very popular one, especially in blues guitar. In order to find the notes...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Jan 31, 2012, 5:46 pm
This is another fantastic video guitar lesson from David Taub with Next Level Guitar. If you are a beginner, stuck in a rut and tired of playing the same old boring chord progressions, then this lesson will be especially helpful and enjoyable. David is going to demonstrate how to play something tha...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Jan 30, 2012, 5:20 pm
About Delmus G. Phelps Statement of purpose within the work: I’ve been an active painter since the mid 70’s creating works in the Realist tradition. Being inspired by the nature around me and in the things we tend to collect, I produce still life and floral oil paintings in the Classical/Contem...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Jan 30, 2012, 11:40 am
Artist Name: Betsy Popp Location: Townsend, Wisconsin Title of Artwork: Meandering Times Dimensions of Artwork: 16″ H x 20″ W Medium: Oils Support: Canvas Website: http://www.natureartists.com/poppb.htm Describe this Piece: This is a quiet moment created from a scene in northwestern Wisco...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Jan 28, 2012, 1:51 pm
Learn How to Play the Eadd11 Guitar Chord Learn how to play the Eadd11 guitar chord with this free tutorial.  To form this chord, we need to take the 1,3,5 and 11 positions from the E Major Scale: E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, and D#.  When we do this, we come up with the notes:  E, G#, B and...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Jan 26, 2012, 5:39 pm
By Michael Fletcher When thinking in terms of practicing guitar scales and guitar chords, many guitarists tend to overlook the overwhelming value of such practice. After all, some might argue, practicing a guitar scale just for the sake of practicing a guitar scale, doesn’t seem like ...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Jan 26, 2012, 2:34 pm
Todays question is from Rauel: “I am trying to paint water rings like you would see if you dropped a pebble in water and am having a difficult time finding any teaching on this. I have a water “mound” in the center of the water rings. I am painting on a 4
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Jan 25, 2012, 9:13 pm
Chroma Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paint is a professional, high quality acrylic paint available in 75 colors.  These paints have a wonderful buttery consistency and dry to a rich satin finish with little to no color shift. As you know, acrylic paints do have their drawbacks.  They dry quickly, c...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Jan 24, 2012, 5:56 pm
Learn how to Play the Absus4 Guitar Chord This lesson will demonstrate  how to play the Absus4 guitar chord (also known as A flat suspended 4, A flat suspended 4th). The formula you will need to use in order to find the notes of this chord is: 1, 4, 5.  This means that we need to loo...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Jan 22, 2012, 5:36 pm
About David Te Hi, my name is David Te. I began thinking about art seriously when I was 18 after seeing my sister Faith, who is also an artist, draw a portrait of a person. It immediately inspired me to draw portraits as well. I have had no formal art schooling at all so I learned entirely by read...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Jan 21, 2012, 7:15 pm
Today I am featuring another excellent video tutorial from GuitarJamz, that I found on good ol’ YouTube.  The lesson is taught by Tony Brucco. If you aren’t familiar with Tony, I  highly recommend you check out his Website.  While you are there, be sure to check out his debut album “DreamBo...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Jan 20, 2012, 6:20 pm
By J Christian Miller Notes are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet. A B C D E F G Reading from left to right the notes are ascending, or going up in pitch. Reading the opposite direction, from right to left the notes are descending, or going down in pitch. >>>>>> Up ...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Jan 19, 2012, 10:04 pm
About John Fisher I was born and educated in England, graduating from the Luton School of Arts (now Barnfield College) in 1945. It was my hope to become a graphic artist, but at the end of the Second World War returning service men and women had first crack at the few jobs available, and rightly so...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Jan 19, 2012, 10:02 pm
... than our foreground mix. With the cottage protected with liquid masking, you can paint quite freely up to ... than our foreground mix. With the cottage protected with liquid masking, you can paint quite freely up to ... thinner to indicate perspective and distance. Remove the liquid masking...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Jan 19, 2012, 9:58 pm
Step 34 Now we rough in the grassy areas using an initial wash of Aurolin Yellow, Sap Green and a touch of our shadow colour. Our middle-ground rocks are finished for now, and we may come back to them later once our water reflection are painted in. We may need more contrast. Step 35 An extreme cl...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Jan 17, 2012, 2:14 pm
Learn How to Play the Dadd9 Guitar Chord Learn how to play the Dadd9 Guitar Chord (also known as D Major Add 9, D Major Added 9th, D2).  To find this chord, we look to the D Major Scale: D E F# G A B C#.  We take the 1, 3, 5 and 9 positions of this scale to form this chord.  This is essentially ...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Jan 16, 2012, 2:26 pm
About Brian Rice: Brian was born on May 25,1958 and his roots are in the small outport of Pilleys Island, Newfoundland, Canada. At the age of nineteen he moved to central Canada in the Sarnia, Ontario area, where he now works in the Petrochemical industry. His interest in art began in high school,...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Jan 15, 2012, 9:44 pm
Learn how to play “Jumper” by Third Eye Blind Learn how to play the song “Jumper” by Third Eye Blind with this easy acoustic guitar song lesson.  This song was released in 1997 off their self titled album, “Third Eye Blind”.  It was written by the groups lead singer, Stephen Jenkins. ...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Jan 14, 2012, 12:12 pm
About Christine Kane Christine Kane is a pastel and watercolor artist who is inspired by the Midwest landscape and it’s seasons. To find new ideas for her paintings, she hikes in the forest preserves during all seasons. Christine began drawing at an early age. She focused her education on art an...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Jan 13, 2012, 2:54 pm
Learn How to Play the Csus4 Guitar Chord This post will teach you several different ways to play the Csus4 chord across the neck of the guitar.  This lesson will cover more advanced versions of this chord. If you would like to learn an easier way to play this chord, follow this link fo...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Jan 12, 2012, 9:18 pm
... from the very easy and simple to the more advanced. I hope you ... a comment below or share this post with your friends and family by ... to Draw Expressive Cartoon Eyes How To Draw Manga/Cartoon Facial Expressions Cartooning ... 123 Cartoon Faces Faces and Expressions How to draw f...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Jan 11, 2012, 9:01 pm
Artist Name: D.W. Rogers Location: Auburn, Alabama Title of Artwork : “Tombstone Cove” Dimensions of Artwork: 16″ x 20″ Medium: oil Support: archival quality, double primed, canvas panel Website: http://www.dwrogerscollection.yolasite.com (Click Image For Larger View)
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Jan 11, 2012, 2:59 pm
Guitar Chord Tutorial – Learn to Play Am7 In the following guitar tutorial, you will be learning how to play several advanced Am7 chord shapes.  For an easy way to play the Am7 guitar chord follow this link. The A Minor 7 Chord (also known as A Minor 7, A Minor 7th, Amin7) is found in the A Ma...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Jan 8, 2012, 6:24 pm
About Beatriz Beatriz Socorro began her formal art training at age 10. During 5 years, she studied art with the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary in Montreal, Canada, where she learned drawing, perspective, the use of light and shadow to obtain depth and likeness as well as clay sculpture...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Oct 31, 2011, 11:24 pm
Here is a wonderfully informative video by Artist Paul Taggart that discusses and demonstrates various wet on wet watercolor painting techniques.  Wet on wet technique is simply the process of applying wet pigment to wet paper. The wet on wet watercolor painting technique is not an easy technique t...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Oct 31, 2011, 6:40 pm
About Bill Palmer BILL PALMER is a guitarist, composer/musician and an educational author. His style is a mix of rock tones, ambient sound-scapes and jazz-influenced harmony. Along similar stylistic lines to Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson but with a voice all his own, Bill’s debut self-recorded ...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Oct 29, 2011, 6:39 pm
... guitar (theory and application) will allow one to progress beyond their own ... concert environment it’s good to let it all hang out and ... Why so much dissertation regarding speed? Let me explain. For most beginners, ... guitar player), when and where (let alone, why) to employ these .....
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Oct 28, 2011, 3:59 pm
About Christopher Vasil I’m a Delaware based impressionist working in acrylics. I try to make paintings that look precise and at the same time spontaneous. My work has been described as having a “…powerful, primitive, brushstroke laid down in a way that brings gentleness…work can appear pow...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Oct 27, 2011, 12:42 pm
Artist Name: Martha Kisling Location: Colorado Title of Artwork: Tulip Collage Dimensions of Artwork: 11
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Oct 25, 2011, 9:06 pm
Learn How to Play the  Gm6  Guitar Chord In this lesson we will be learning how to play the G Minor 6 guitar chord. The Gm6 Guitar Chord is found by locating the 1, b3, 5, 6 positions (G, Bb, D and E) of the G Major Scale: G, A, B, C, D, E, and F#. See the chord charts below for four different ...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Oct 23, 2011, 4:48 pm
In the following video, Elaine Salazar, president of Ampersand Art Supply discusses a product by Ampersand known as “Aquaboard”.  Aquaboard is an acid free surface that is perfect for use with Water based media like watercolors and gouache.  It is similar to cold pressed watercolor paper but t...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Oct 23, 2011, 11:58 am
Learn how to play the song “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” by Paul Simon with this free acoustic guitar lesson.  This song was written by Paul Simon and was  released in 1972 off of his self titled album “Paul Simon “.   Learn more about this song over at Wikipedia. For...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Oct 20, 2011, 12:35 pm
About The Artist Carol Santora, PSA, has loved animals of all kinds since she was a child, and remembers always wanting to be an artist. She had numerous well-used Jon Gnagy drawing kits and would copy pictures from magazines and sketch things around her home. Santora (BFA, summa cum laude, Framin...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Oct 19, 2011, 11:22 pm
About Bill Palmer BILL PALMER is a guitarist, composer/musician and an educational author. His style is a mix of rock tones, ambient sound-scapes and jazz-influenced harmony. Along similar stylistic lines to Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson but with a voice all his own, Bill’s debut self-recorded ...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Oct 17, 2011, 4:08 pm
Advanced Guitar Chord Lesson – Learn to Play Cm6 Learn how to play the C Minor 6 (also known as Cm6) guitar chord with this free guitar lesson.  Below are three different ways to play this chord.  All three are advanced and rather challenging if you are just starting out.  They req...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Oct 16, 2011, 10:16 pm
Learning how to clean your oil painting brushes is important, especially if your brushes are expensive and of high quality.  You want to protect that investment so that your brushes will last for years to come. There are a variety of methods for removing oil paint from a brush. If you ...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Oct 14, 2011, 9:30 pm
The Circle of Fifths is not a new concept.  It was first seen in a treatise called Grammatika that was written by a composer by the name of Nikolai Diletskii back in 1679. Read the full article over at Wikipedia. The Circle of Fifths is essentially a tool used by musicians to help them...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Oct 13, 2011, 4:36 pm
In this free oil painting video lesson by artist Dick Ensing  you will learn a method for starting a landscape painting using oil paint. This is not the only way to start an oil painting, but it is an excellent method and one that every beginner should become familiar with. The artist will be work...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Oct 11, 2011, 12:07 pm
About Bill Palmer BILL PALMER is a guitarist, composer/musician and an educational author. His style is a mix of rock tones, ambient sound-scapes and jazz-influenced harmony. Along similar stylistic lines to Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson but with a voice all his own, Bill’s debut self-recorded ...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Oct 10, 2011, 3:30 pm
About Steve Fleming Good art is the result of hard work and dedication. It only happens when the artist finds his or her own story to tell and then learns to do so with his or her own unique language. I am an artist who works in watercolor and acrylic, and I teach both for The Art League in Alexan...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Oct 8, 2011, 10:26 pm
Guitar Chord Lesson -- Learn to Play Am6 Learn how to play the Am6 guitar chord (also known as A minor 6, A Minor 6th) with this lesson. The A Minor 6  Chord  is found by locating the 1, b3, 5 and 6 steps of the  A Major Scale: A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G#, or the notes A, C, E and F#....
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Oct 6, 2011, 7:08 pm
About Brandi Brandi Deziel is a self-taught photorealism painter living and working in Toronto. She creates the illusion of a photograph by layering crisp images with soft, blurred backgrounds and foregrounds thus shifting the attention to the focal object and deceiving the eye. Her work is inclu...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Oct 5, 2011, 11:28 pm
Here is a cool little video lesson for all of you blues guitar lovers.  This is taught by one of my favorite guitar instructors, Marty Schwartz from GuitarJamz.  In this lesson, he explains how to play a cool blues guitar progression in the key of E using the chords: E7, A7 and B7 (If you don’t ...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Oct 4, 2011, 11:04 pm
About Sandrine Pelissier I grew up in France but have been living in Canada for the last 12 years, I am currently located in North Vancouver and work from a studio on Pemberton Avenue. Watercolor is my medium of choice because of the unique way it allows me to render light. The transparency of ...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Learn Acoustic Guitar - Free Guitar Lessons - Oct 2, 2011, 10:46 pm
Learn how to play the song “In the Pines“ also known as “Where Did you Sleep Last Night” as performed by Nirvana with this free guitar lesson. “In the Pines” is actually a traditional American Folk Song dating back to the 1870′s and was only covered by Nirvana as well as a ...
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Ralph S. posted an article on Art Instruction For Beginners - Oct 2, 2011, 8:05 pm
In this 5 part video drawing tutorial, Artist Ed Beard Jr.  takes you step by step through his process of drawing a fantasy scene from memory using no reference material at all.  Ed says this is possible because of his years of studying anatomy and other subjects. To learn more about Ed, to see m...
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