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Contents
easy reference
Acrylic: 14, 22, 32, 58, 66
Oil: 40, 64
Pastel: 58, 64
Watercolor: 52
4 Editor’s Note
6 Letters
6 What’s New at ArtistDaily.com
8 Art Mart
10 Quick Sketches
American Artist Announces Utrecht
Art Supplies’ 2nd Annual National
Art Competition...Award Winners
Announced At the National
Academy Museum’s Annual
Invitational Exhibition.
14 14 Acrylic Special Section:
Exploring Versatile Acrylic
64 Paints & Mediums
by M. Stephen Doherty
Teachers, professional artists,
and students associated with the
Rye Arts Center, in New York,
sampled a wide range of colors and
formulations of acrylic paints and
mediums. In the process, they
discovered materials that expanded
their creative opportunities.
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June 2010
22 Acrylic Special Section:
5 Acrylic Artists Share
Methods, Materials, and
Techniques
by Karyn Meyer-Berthel
32 Making All the Rules
in Acrylic
by Allison Malafronte
Whether she’s painting on the
beaches of Orange County or
on her 1,200-acre ranch in the
valley, California plein air
painter Marcia Burtt takes
advantage of the freeing,
expressive qualities of acrylic
to design her own adventure
through the art-making process.
40 The Shining Example
of Sorolla
by Bob Bahr
Modern painters can benefit
from studying Joaquín Sorolla,
a master of depicting light and
the figure. The reinstallation of
his monumental painting series
Vision of Spain, at the Hispanic
Society of America, in Manhattan,
offers a chance to revisit the
accomplished oil painter.
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Portrait of the Artist

Louis Comfort Tiffany
(detail)
by Joaquín Sorolla, 1909,
oil, 211⁄4 x 251⁄4. Courtesy the
Hispanic Society of America,
New York, New York.

52 Paint With Watercolors as if You Were

Assembling a Puzzle
by M. Stephen Doherty
Chicago artist Andrea Vincent devotes a great deal of
time to evaluating the colors, shapes, and key elements
of a subject to determine the best way to paint it with
layers of transparent watercolor.
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58 Creating Drama From the Commonplace
by Linda S. Price
Her subjects may be everyday items, but pastelist
Diane Rudnick Mann effectively uses them to create
drama in her meticulously rendered still life paintings.

64 Getting to the Truth of a Subject

by M. Stephen Doherty
For Nancy MacDonald, the decision whether to work
with oil or pastel, and how to handle those painting
materials, depends on what she believes is the truth
about her observations.
70 Exhibitions
Picasso Looks at Degas...Remember the Ladies: Women
Artists of the Hudson River School...Interiors: Still Life
and Interior Landscapes.

74 Business of Art

76 Technical Q+A
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78 Bulletin Board

80 Coming in...

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