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Acrylic Painting

Acrylic Painting
Artists who are just beginning working with acrylics, especially those people who are already used to oil paints or other slower drying paints, will find several hurdles to overcome in the beginning.  Thankfully, most of them can be avoided or lessened by knowing the following tips for beginners.  These will save you time and headaches, and will make your painting a lot more fun. 
Moisture
Acrylic paints get dry really fast.  When I started to work with them years ago, one of ...

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Designer Jonathan Ive on Steve Jobs

Designer Jonathan Ive on Steve Jobs

Jonathan Ive, the London born designer and senior vice president of Industrial Design at Apple, reports directly to the CEO, who is now Tim Cook.  For the last 15 years, Ive has been leading a design team widely regarded as one of the world’s best;  it was the team that brought the world the unibody style of Macbook Pro laptop computers, as well as many other great innovations in design that have come to us from Apple.

Shortly after Jobs’ death, friends ...

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Mary Blair Google Doodle

Mary Blair Google Doodle

Google is celebrating the 100th birthday of Mary Blair, the late Disney artist whose colorful style became synonymous with some of the ‘50s most cherished and beloved animated films. “Alice in Wonderland,” “Cinderella” and “Peter Pan” all featured her work, and even though Blair left Disney in the mid 1950s, she was hired later by Walt Disney himself to work on Disney’s ...

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