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My Latest Studio Find: Bandit Bungee Bands
'Sweet Summer Stay With Me' 8x10 pastel ©Karen Margulispurchase painting with Paypal $145 I have a thing for containers and boxes. I can't pass up a good box. I have a...
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Putting Some Life into Your Painting
'Salt Marsh Music' 9x12 pastel ©Karen Margulispurchase painting in my Etsy shop $125My marsh painting was too quiet. That wasn't how it was. I remembered waking early for...
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A Shortcut to Mixed Media
'Marsh Impressions I' 3.5 x 5.5 mixed media on wood ©Karen Margulisthe set of three are available in my Etsy shop $125I love thrift stores! A few weeks ago I found these small wood...
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Why Traveling is Good for an Artist
'Taking the Back Roads' 11x14 pastel ©Karen Margulispurchase this painting here $165 "Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." SenecaI am in trip...
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New Marsh Painting...Interpreting a Photo
'Into the Tall Grass' 11x14 pastel ©Karen Margulissold"To interpret what we see before us, to distill its essence, to point out the wonder and omit the mundane, these are the...
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New You Tube Video...Do Your Pastels Whisper or Shout?
'An Island Walk' 6x6 pastel ©Karen Margulis $75 click here If a picture is worth a thousand words than a video is even better. Especially when it comes to art demos. I...
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The Benefits of an Unorganized Palette
'Rich Silence' 8x10 pastel ©Karen Margulisclick here to purchase $145It looked like someone had dumped out my pastels. I looked down at the messy pile of pastels I have...
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Read this if You are Frustrated with your Paintings
'Where the Bison Roam' 11x14 pastel ©Karen Margulispurchase painting with Paypal $165 It is easy to get frustrated with your paintings. Even if you are not frustrated I...
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Jumpstart your Painting with this Color Idea
'Magic Happens at the Day's End' 11x14 ©Karen Margulispurchase painting with Paypal HERE $165Sometimes it is the color that inspires me. I'm often asked how I come up with my...
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3 Tips for Painting the Magic Hour from Photos
'They Call it Magic' 9x12 pastel ©Karen Margulispainting available $145 on EtsyThey don't call it the Magic Hour for nothing. You know, that wonderful time of day when the...
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First Steps in Painting a Bird ... Great Blue Heron Painting
'Great Blue Waits' 12x12 pastel ©Karen Margulispurchase in my Etsy shop $175I was in the mood to paint a bird. I just never know what I will feel like painting...
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Why Bother with Underpaintings When They End Up Getting Covered?
'Just Another Beautiful Day' 11x14 pastel ©Karen Margulisclick to purchaseIs it a waste of time and effort? I spent an hour doing an alcohol wash underpainting and waiting...
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Pastel Mini Demo...Landscape Painting from a Black & White Photo
'Keep Close to Nature's Heart' 9x12 pastel ©Karen MargulisClick here to purchase $150"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain...
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How to Change the Mood of a Painting
'Wander Here in Summer' 9x12 pastel ©Karen Margulisclick here to purchase $150 Early morning and we were up looking for moose. Or Bear or Elk. Any creature would be just as...
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Making Lemonade with Pastels...Painting Lurie Gardens
'Garden Respite' 10x10 pastel ©Karen Margulisclick here to purchase Sometimes you just have a mess on your hands. A failed painting or perhaps a study destined for the trash. And...
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Studio Tip: Keeping Your Pastels Clean
'Walk with Nature' 9x12 pastel ©Karen Margulisclick here to purchase $150"In every walk with Nature one receives more than he seeks." John MuirI may have a dusty box of...
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Miles of Canvas Revisited
'There is Beauty' 6x8 pastel ©Karen Margulisclick here to purchase $100"If you look into the past of a successful painter you will find square miles of canvas"-Charles...
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Making Time for Quiet Contemplation
'A Place to Unwind' 6x6 oil on panel ©Karen Margulisclick here to purchase $100I took a last minute trip to the mountains this weekend. I needed a brain dump. I have been...
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An Experiment: Oil over Pastel. Does it Work?
'Drive By Clouds' 5x7 Oil on Multimedia Artboard ©Karen Margulisclick here to purchase $75Last week I was working on a marsh commission in oil. I had some nice piles of paint...
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Sennelier Iridescent Pastel Review...The Fine Jewelry of Pastels
'Desert Beauty' 8x10 pastel ©Karen Margulisclick HERE to purchase $100 We all need to spice it up sometimes! As beautiful as pastels are it is nice to be...
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