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By Carrie Lewis in Art Business Advice > General Art Advice When most artists think about making money with their art, three things immediately come to mind: selling originals, doing commission work, and selling prints. Some artists might also think of teaching, or design jobs. But are those the only ways to make money as an artist? Absolutely not! In fact, we’ve put together a huge list of 77 ways you could turn your artistic skills into income. Not all of these […]

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Charvin Extra Fine Oil Holiday Deluxe Special Value Set - contains an assortment of luxury oils. Permanent and light-fast, Charvin Extra Fine Oil paint is designed to accurately reflect the hues of nature, making it ideal for Plein air painting. The smooth and creamy texture lends itself perfectly to Alla prima painting, yet the high pigment concentration also allows the paint to be thinned down to the most subtle and luminous glazes. StudioSolv™ Artist Odorless Mineral Spirit, 3.4oz - is a purified, odor-free oil-thinning medium. It's designed to thin oils and mediums while maintaining the integrity of your color. Add sparingly to your oil paints, and experiment with different ratios to find the consistency you prefer. Although aromatic solvents have been extracted to remove odor, adequate ventilation should be practiced for safety.

PLEASE NOTE: We have changed the glass palette shown in the photographs to a more durable white Corian version. The Scout Plein Air Box was inspired by our endeavor to make art every day. This pochade box compactly secures all of your essential art supplies for painting outdoors. Fill your box with your favorite colors, paintbrushes, and sketchbook. Find your spot and quickly transform the box into a mini studio. Set it on a flat surface or mount it on a tripod, snap the liquid jars, brush holder, and easel in place, clip on your canvas and you are ready to paint! When stepping outside, perspective changes and we discover unknown parts of ourselves. By making plein air painting a ritual, we are able to better consider our world and our relationship with it. We begin to observe more closely, to better see color, and to hone memory whilst striving to capture fleeting moments. Sling your Scout Plein Air Box over your shoulder and set out on a painting adventure—you might just find something! “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something… You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” –from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien DETAILS - FSC-Certified Walnut or Maple from south-eastern USA - Vegetable-tanned leather - Brass rivets and button studs - Steel snaps and buckle - 1 exterior pocket and 1 interior pocket - 4 slots for drying canvases (4″ × 6″) - Threaded tripod mount - Handmade in Philadelphia, PA | USA PARTS - 1 adjustable and removable shoulder strap - 1 white Corian palette - 2 magnetic drawers - 1 wooden easel - 2 snap-on jars (1 oz. / 30 ml) - 1 snap-on brush holder (holds 8 brushes) - 8 empty paint tubes (22 ml) - 4 Ampersand Gessobord canvas boards (4″ × 6″) - 2 binder clips for holding the canvas VIDEO WALKTHROUGH https://pegandawlbuilt.com/blogs/journal/the-scout-plein-air-box-video-walkthrough CUSTOM ENGRAVING Emmett, our laser engraving machine and in-house scribe, allows you to add your own story to many of our objects. Choose one of our customization options: • Name (1 line, 30 characters max.) • Quote (6 lines, 30 characters max.) The “Engraving Placements” diagram in the product images shows the placement and size of the text. You may use any text as your personalization as long as it fits in the line and character limits. Please include your text to be engraved in the personalization box. Be sure to double-check your wording, spelling and punctuation for errors before submitting your order. CUSTOM-ENGRAVED OBJECTS ARE NOT RETURNABLE. ABOUT THE CANVAS BOARDS – AMPERSAND’S DESCRIPTION Museum Series Gessobord is the most trusted pre-gessoed wood panel by artists for their work. The superior quality acrylic gesso ground does not dull colors and the lightly sanded surface provides exceptional brush control. This makes Gessobord the perfect art panel for all painting styles with oil paints, acrylics and mixed media. Only Ampersand uses true high-density hardboard made from US grown and renewable Aspen wood fibers. Made with Ampersand’s 1/8" True Artist Hardbord, the surface is acid-free and non-yellowing. OTHER SCOUT OPTION Watercolor: www.etsy.com/listing/975390310 WEIGHT Approximately 5 lbs. 8 oz. MEASUREMENTS Box Only Inches: 8½″ tall by 6⅝″ wide by 4¾″ deep Metric: 21.6 cm tall by 16.8 cm wide by 12.1 cm deep Box with Leather Cover Inches: 8¾″ tall by 6⅝″ wide by 5¼″ deep Metric: 22.2 cm tall by 16.8 cm wide by 13.3 cm deep Drawer Inside Inches: 4⅞″ long by 3½″ wide by 1⅝″ deep; ¼″ rounded corners Metric: 12.4 cm long by 8.9 cm by 4.1 cm deep; 0.6 cm rounded corners Outside Pouch Inches: 6½″ tall by 5½″ wide Metric: 16.5 cm tall by 14 cm wide Inside Pouch Inches: 7½″ tall by 5″ wide Metric: 19.1 cm tall by 12.7 cm wide Shoulder Strap Inches: Adjustable from 34½″ to 46½″ long; approximately 16″ to 22″ shoulder drop Metric: Adjustable from 87.6 cm to 118.1 cm long; approximately 40.6 cm to 55.9 cm shoulder drop Ampersand Canvases Inches: 6″ wide by 4″ tall by ¼″ thick Metric: 15.2 cm wide by 10.2 cm by 0.6 cm thick Corian Palette Inches: 6″ wide by 4″ tall by ¼″ thick Metric: 15.2 cm wide by 10.2 cm tall by 0.6 cm thick MORE PEG AND AWL Website: www.pegandawlbuilt.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/pegandawl | @pegandawl Facebook: www.facebook.com/pegandawl Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/pegandawlbuilt Twitter: www.twitter.com/pegandawl SIGN UP FOR OUR EMAIL NEWSLETTER FOR 10% OFF YOUR FIRST ORDER! https://pegandawlbuilt.com/pages/etsy-newsletter-signup Share with us: #pegandawl BACK TO OUR SHOP www.etsy.com/shop/pegandawl

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When painting small, pochade boxes fit the bill for me very well. There have been a number of posts on this blog about those, in particular here and here. However, larger paintings such as 16" x 20" or 18" x 24" require more paint, bigger brushes, more solvent, etc, and that needs a larger, beefier means of carrying it all around. This post will be about the paintbox I use for bigger paintings. I built this box nearly twenty years ago. Plans - or wishful thinking - were that I would begin serious oil painting soon after building the box. In reality, it was used mostly for storage of neglected painting supplies until just around a year or so ago. The design idea came from smaller paint boxes I've seen for sale in art supply stores. Not knowing much about oil painting, nor really knowing what I needed in a paint box, I just took the design ideas I saw in the stores and beefed them up considerably to what I thought would work for my purposes - whatever those were! This box was built almost entirely out of pine. Not the most durable of wood, but it was what was available then and it works well enough. After years of pastel painting, and then lots of oil painting in pochade boxes, it was time to begin learning to paint bigger. Something was needed that would hold bigger brushes and large tubes of paint. Commercially made boxes of the scale I needed aren't readily available, so I needed to figure out what to do. Suitably sized plastic storage bins or even a cardboard box came to mind. Finally I remembered the lonely pine paintbox full of 37 ml paint tubes with stuck caps. It was promoted from storage box to working paintbox - what it was originally intended to be. With the experience I've gained in painting larger pictures, if given the chance I would build this box entirely different. It's smaller than I would like, and the compartments could be better designed, but it works and will make do. This paintbox has everything needed to paint except easel and large painting panel, although I usually take the usual painting supply bag with it. Here's a photo and bullet points explaining what's inside the big paintbox: Click Picture for Larger Image 11" x 14" canvas panels in swing out panel holder. Wooden palette. Fits in same holder. 150 ml size tubes of oil paint. In this compartment I keep a tube or two of white paint, a small (37 ml) tube of ivory black, vine charcoal which I may someday use, along with an eraser, and whatnot. Whatnot gets into a lot of my stuff. Here I keep a few plastic bags for oily rags, plus a couple bottles of almost-never-used medium; one of linseed oil and one of liquin. Tube wringer. Domestically made - not imported. The imports break as soon as you try to use them. Brush washer filled with odorless mineral spirits. Bigger than the one I use with the pochade boxes, but I wish it was bigger still. This little compartment holds a small container of brush cleaning soap, if ever it's needed, a neglected medium cup, a wire hook for hanging the brush washer from my easel, and a thumbscrew for fastening the support that holds the paintbox lid open. Bamboo brush holder with brushes ranging in size from a little rigger to size 14 or 16 flats. Also in this compartment are paper towels in a plastic bag and a couple palette knives. The hardwood lid support fits into this compartment for transport. There's a collapsible mahl stick in there, too. Back when I built the box, I thought it needed to hold a couple paint panels. They might come in handy someday, but that's not so important to me now. Access to the panel holder is made by turning a little wooden latch at the top of the lid, then the panel holder tilts out. Moving the palette out of the way allows the paintbox to be used like a pochade box. The paintbox is too big and bulky to be carried very far and being a pochade box is not its primary purpose. My feeling is, if I have to lug around such a big paintbox, it will be for big paintings. The brush holder is a necessary evil. It's there to keep brushes in place. Otherwise when the box is closed and being transported the design of the box could allow brushes to fall into other compartments - and into the panel holder, where there might be wet paint. I don't want the brushes painting unsupervised!

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One reason I love my kids’ school is that there are tons of opportunities for art. Last year, they made mixed-media projects, large suns with glitter and thick paint, and even some glazed pottery. They’ve done clay sculptures and paintings, and now, they’re creating collage projects. With all these artworks coming home, my friends and I were at a bit of a loss about how to sort and store these varied shapes and sizes of masterpieces.

I have tons of people to thank for this post – all of my Facebook followers who shared pics with me, my friend Sheila for letting me borrow the insert I share in the video, Copic for providing the new case so I could show it to you – and TJ&Things for providing an ink insert and […]

Für eine scharfe und präzise Rasur Die pandoo Rasierklingen aus Edelstahl ermöglichen eine erstklassige und hautfreundliche Rasur, sowohl für Frauen als auch für Männer. Beschreibung Lieferumfang: 100er Pack: 10 Verpackungen mit jeweils 10 Rasierklingen einzeln in Papier verpackt. 10er Pack: 10 Rasierklingen in einzelner Papierverpackung Material: Edelstahl Größe: 2,2 cm x 4,3 cm Entsorgung: Ist deine Rasierklinge stumpf geworden, wird es Zeit, diese auszuwechseln. Bei den alten Klingen ist es vor allem wichtig, dass du sie während der Aufbewahrung gut kennzeichnest, da man sich auch an den stumpfen Klingen noch schneiden kann. Die Rasierklingen lassen sich im Restmüll entsorgen und sind recycelbar, da sie aus reinem Edelstahl bestehen. Verpackung: 100% plastikfrei und biologisch abbaubar. Den Karton im Altpapiermüll entsorgen. Produziert in: Guangdong Provinz, China Zertifizierung: Unser Produzent ist BSCI-zertifiziert Anwendung: Lade dir unser E-Book herunter, um unsere Tipps und Erfahrungen über den Rasierhobel nachzulesen! Impact Plastikfrei verpackte Rasierklingen, um die Verschmutzung der Meere zu vermeiden Laut einem Report vom WWF ist die Produktion von Kunststoffen seit 1950 um das Zweihundertfache gestiegen. Der größte Teil an Plastik wird bei der Herstellung von Einwegprodukten und Verpackungen eingesetzt. Diese landen nach kurzer Nutzung auf dem Müll. Die Klingen aus Edelstahl sind plastikfrei und können recycelt werden. Weil sie langlebig sind, sparst du damit nicht nur an Plastik und Ressourcen, sondern auch an Geld! FAQ Wie viel kostet der Versand? Mehr über den Versand erfährst du auf unserer Hilfe Seite.   Ich hatte bisher noch keinen Hobel. Wie kompliziert ist es, die Klinge zu wechseln? Die Klinge lässt sich einfach austauschen, indem man den Griff abdreht und den Deckel abnimmt. An dieser Stelle befinden sich zwei Stifte, die die Klinge fixieren. Die Klinge einfach einlegen, den Deckel aufsetzen und den Griff wieder draufdrehen. Hier sollte man darauf achten, die Klinge nicht zu zerbrechen und nie an den scharfen Kanten in die Finger zu nehmen.   Sind die Rasierklingen nur für die pandoo Rasierhobel geeignet oder kann man die mit anderen Rasierhobeln verwenden? Grundsätzlich können die pandoo Klingen mit jedem Rasierhobel verwendet werden. Die Maße von dem Rasierhobel Kopf sollten den folgenden entsprechen: 4,5 cm x 2,5 cm.   Bewertungen

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