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How to Tone Frames
By Armand CabreraI buy metal and gold leaf frames for most of my paintings. I like how the metallic gold finish complements the paintings but sometimes the frames are not the right color or too brassy...
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Collaboration verses Auteur
ByArmand CabreraAs a production artist the idea of collaboration comes up a lot in my discussions with clients. A lot of the art world caters to making art in service of something else. I’m not talking...
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My partner Diane Burket is a voice over professional and has been going through my older posts and recording them as a podcast with pictures. She has been posting them on Youtube the past few weeks so...
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Art and Labor
ByArmand Cabrera"I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to studymathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics andphilosophy, geography, natural history and...
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Behind the Scenes
ByArmand CabreraMost of the work for an art show goes on behind the scenes. I usually do two or three shows a year. That’s on average 20 to twenty five paintings for each show and this is on top of my...
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Illuxcon 2014 and Beyond
by Armand CabreraIt has been a couple of weeks since I've posted anything here. My apologies, my schedule has interfered with my normal writing schedule. Last week I was in Allentown PA for the...
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Painting trip to Ouray Colorado
ByArmand Cabrera Just a week after Illuxcon I was off to Colorado to paint fall color for five days with my friend Arthur. The weather was perfect most of the time although we did have one snow day...
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Fall color continues
byArmand CabreraOnce I caught up on laundry and correspondence after my Colorado trip I headed up to Skyline Drive to paint fall color in Virginia. The weather was a little dreary at first but the last...
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Autumn in the Blueridge 2014
ByArmand CabreraOver the last couple of weeks I've gone and painted up on the Blueridge Parkway or down in some of the hollows on the western edge of the Piedmont where it meets up with the eastern...
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The Substance of Art
By Armand CabreraCan anything be more tragic than to feel the infinite beauty of your surroundings, to read natures innermost secrets and, conscious of your own helplessness, to be incapable of...
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Setting Goals in Your Career
Armand CabreraI am pleased to announce I have been juried into the Illuxcon Imaginative Realism main show at the Allentown Museum for 2015. This will be my fourth time at Illuxcon and my third time as...
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New paintings
ByArmand CabreraAfter my trip out west to the San Juan Mountains in October and lots of time in the field during November I’ve spent the last few weeks painting in the studio for my galleries in Vail...
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Larry the Cat
by Armand CabreraTwo weeks ago today I had to euthanize my cat Larry. This is very painful for me to write and share publicly and I have always tried to avoid letting this art blog become a diary,...
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Color Opportunities in Painting
ByArmand CabreraI've talked about looking for color opportunities in your paintings in passing before but people ask me how do you go about seeing more color? Like everything else color sensitivity can...
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The Fine Art of Offending
By Armand CabreraGrigory Gagarin. This Russian painting from 1840-1850 shows prophet Muhammad preachingI feel I must comment in the aftermath of the tragic events in France The murders of French...
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Changing Mediums for Inspiration
ByArmand Cabrera We as artists can fall into painting things the same way all the time if we are not careful. Artistic scrutiny gets traded in for symbols. We do this when we start painting...
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Artists’ Studios
ByArmand CabreraI've been having fun sharing pictures of artists in their studios on line and I thought I would post some of them here. Life could be hard for artist in the 19th century but those...
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Being an Artist in the Digital Age
By Armand CabreraI had two computers fail last weekend. My workstation, the CPU fan failed which was reasonably easy to replace although with the storms it still took a week. My laptop was a complete...
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Getting to the Heart of a Subject
ByArmand Cabrera Dennis Miller BunkerArt can be many things depending on who you ask the question of. For me art is getting to the heart of a paintings subject and revealing something of that...
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Julian Alden Weir Still Life Paintings
ByArmand CabreraJ. Alden Weir is primarily known for his figure paintings and impressionist landscapes but he also created many fine still life paintings throughout his career. His early academic...
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