September 2009

Drawing from the Model - Session 1

      Have you ever attended a Life Drawing Workshop? Drawing from the model is a weekly ritual for most figure and portrait artist.  I invite you to be part of this journey. Come into my studio, meet the model and look over my shoulder.  A new model or new pose each week, and a look into [...]

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How I Paint without making a mess

Painting Tutorial using Corel Painter 11   I love to Paint. I always say, “I love the smell of turpentine,” and I really do. But I also love that I have no mess, no cleanup, no allergy problems, no rags, no paper towels, etc. It’s now a “green thing” to keep it clean and healthy for the [...]

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5 Things about Plumeria flowers

FIVE  FACTS Plumeria is related to the Oleander It’s common name is Frangipani Both possess poisonous, milky sap (similar to Euphorbia among them the Poinsettia) Flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them. The flowers have no nectar , and simply dupe their pollinators as they move from [...]

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It's time to order your Holiday Greeting Cards

  New paintings for 2009 Holiday Greeting Cards  The Amaryllis group. I’ve painted two new amaryllis for this year’s holiday greeting cards. One is in the traditional oil painting style and one in the new popular PopArt style. Both images are available as giclee prints on canvas.   Ready to customize The 5×7 greeting card is [...]

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How to setup a street fair booth

COD Street Fair Booth – 8:20 AM Walk with me through the process and click any picture to see it enlarged.  Today I documented that event with photos and a timeline. We awake at 3:40 AM every Saturday and Sunday, and at 5:15 AM leave for the street fair in our fully packed van. It has to [...]

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How do you take Notes?

The yellow ruled pad My note-taking companion.  When I’m ready to make the presentation, out comes the pad and the lists begin. Today I’m doing it in a totally different way, and you can see it in the notes above. Mind Mapping The drawing above are my notes. I’m making 3 presentations on Painter 11, [...]

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I Don't Have Talent

Meet the Artist …Jackie Jacobson The Question I’m most frequently asked… “Were you born with talent? I can’t draw a straight line. My sister has the talent, but I don’t have talent.” My Answer… short and simple. “No I wasn’t born with the skill of drawing a straight line. I wasn’t born with any of the skills [...]

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Newsletter - September 2009

  BREAKING NEWS …It’s in the Mail I have published my first newsletter. It’s been mailed to everyone on my mailing list.  Next month, you can be on that email list. After you finish reading, sign up below. JACKIE JACOBSON STUDIOS NEWSLETTER    Any ideas you’d like to see included in the monthly columns can be [...]

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The Perfect Affordable Gift

      How do you say thank you to your hostess? I usually do it with a bottle of wine, some flowers, oh yes…and candy is perfect.  Last month, I gave something I’ve never given. A box of greeting cards. Earlier that day I looked up at my paper shelf and there was fine art greeting [...]

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Free Book Club.

Join this Book Club Today From Alyson Stanfield  ArtBizBlog       Beginning September 14, we (anyone!) will be reading Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein by Janet Hobhouse. We use Twitter to communicate with each other about the book. Alyson selected this book because (1) it’s been sitting on her shelf [...]

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New Artwork Added

Flowers Everywhere I spent this summer at home, in the studio…Painting. That is the best vacation any artist can have. I’ve always admired still life paintings. Still Life This genre flourished particularly among Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, and the term itself originated in the Dutch language as “” and “”. Jean Chardin (French, 1699-1769) is [...]

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UPDATE Pick 3 Favorites

The results are in… This is a very big thank you to everyone who participated in this project.  Your favorite picks are very interesting. I am actually working on the top two; my next posts will be Recent Work and finally…a Video of Painter 11. Expect to see one of your favorites here very soon. Come back often. Your [...]

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Glass Artists

    It was in Chicago, around 1969, that the buzz in art circles, was fiery with words like… BLOW GLASS That was the beginning of the glass art movement, and the heated talk about the outstanding people coming out of the Univerity of Illinois, Champaign.  I was personally involved with several of those artist, [...]

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