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Suffering from the Green Blues by Christopher Leeper OPA
It’s Spring and with that we enter the green season. Green is a tough color for some painters....
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Demo: The Falls by Albert Handell OPAM
I paint with both Oils and Pastel … For a while there I was better known for my...
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“One Step Back, Two Steps Forward”
After not having as much time to paint last year as I would have liked due to some...
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Cheater, Cheater
Suzie Baker OPA – Board Member – Past President Ferdinand Hodler, The Disappointed Souls, 1892, 120x299cm, Guggenheim Museum,...
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The Deadline Is Coming. Are You Ready?
This article was written by long-serving Board member and Master Signature artist James Bruce Jr., (January 1938 –...
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Finding Inspiration with Travel and Camaraderie By Artist, Editor/Writer, Gallerist and OPA member Vanessa Françoise Rothe
As artists, we have all read or heard stories about American artists traveling abroad and returning filled with...
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COMPOSITION AND VALUE
By Aimee Erickson OPA Composing a picture has a parallel in music: There are only so many notes,...
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Overcoming Creative Slumps
A close friend of the great American artist, Edward Hopper, once said of him, “He was emotionally depressed...
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Be Secure in the Insecurity
“When I reacquainted myself to oil painting in the late 90’s, I’d already been a professional musician (ok...
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