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Short Take: Foreground Darks

Gregory Manchess

Recently in one of my online classes for SmArt School, a few students were having trouble creating visual interest in their compositions. The pieces lacked depth. The culprit wasn’t the design of the main elements, but the distribution of values. Generally, the students think of the background as dark, but they also wanted to put their main subject in dark clothing, and all the darks in the subject were the same darks as in the…

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Convention Observations

Sarah Finnigan

June 17, 2025 - We’re well into convention season, when many artists get out of their studios to show their work and meet art fans.  When conventions are working for you, the right couple of events can make it financially feasible to pursue the art you want to create, instead of art that you must hustle to complete. Many artists have dipped their toes into their first few conventions. Because success is found through experimentation, the biggest hurdle may not be to get started, but somewhere in the transition between getting your feet wet and swimming laps.  Some learn to tread water, but give up when they feel they're not getting anywhere. One artist may do 3 conventions/year and another might do 10. It will take the first artist 7 years to learn what the second artist learned in…

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