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Visit the American Artist Community Site For New Editorial Content

As many visitors have already discovered, the American Artist online presence is currently transitioning to a new format. The new American Artist community site is already home to the American Artist forums, and fresh online editorial content is being shifted there as well. The content previously posted here can now be found in a collection of newly created blogs, brought to you by the editors of the American Artist family of publications.

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Judith Carducci's Workshop: The Benefits of Drawing and Working From Life

During a recent plein air workshop in Southern France, Judith Carducci helped students who worked with pen-and-ink, pastel, watercolor, and oil colors. The unifying themes of the 10-day class were that drawing is a foundation of all media and working from life would benefit every participant.

Casey Baugh's Workshop: Seeing Accurately and Solving Problems

This dynamic young artist believes anyone can learn the language of painting and use it to express themselves, which he proves in both short-term and extended workshops.

View a step by step demonstration by Baugh.

Tony Curanaj's Workshop: Knowledge and Structure Allow Freer Painting

This New York City artist has found that the more he understands the science of the elements in his still life scene, and the more carefully he executes his drawing and underpainting, the freer he can interpret the subject matter in the final stages to achieve a subtle, effective oil painting.

Ellen Rolli: Painting Coach

This Boston acrylic painter teaches art the way a life coach helps a client achieve life goals.

Dan Young's Harmony and Depth in Landscapes

In the Fall 2008 issue of Workshop  magazine,we discussed how Dan Young helped both beginners and experienced painters develop their skills by showing them how to simplify forms, increase the sense of light, push background shapes into the distance, and achieve color harmony. Here, we present more of the artist's completed work.

Scott Tallman Powers' "Morgan Ramsdell"

Watch an audio slideshow demonstration of Scott Tallman Powers' figure-painting techniques as he creates Morgan Ramsdell. Powers was one of the artists featured in the summer 2008 issue of Workshop magazine (1:30).

Max Ginsburg's Workshop: Seeing Forms, Not Formulas

During a recent workshop, New York artist Max Ginsburg showed students how to respond to the specific lighting effects they observed rather than to use premixed colors and repetitive procedures.

View an online exclusive gallery of Ginsburg's work.

Mary Anna Goetz's Colorful Landscapes

In the summer 2008 issue of Workshop magazine, we discussed how Mary Anna Goetz's workshops address the tendencies students have to lose sight of the center of interest and to mix colors that are garishly overstated or inaccurate value assessments. In this online exclusive gallery, we present more of Goetz's work.

Watch an audio slideshow demonstration of Goetz's Calicoon Creek.

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Scott Tallman Powers' Oil Paintings: Developing the Concept

In the summer 2008 issue of Workshop, we discussed how Scott Tallman Powers was able to express strong emotions in oil paintings by first establishing a clear concept for the picture and then remaining focused on delivering that content to viewers. We offer more examples of his work to illustrate this concept in this online exclusive gallery.

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