Art Fun Cheap

This is the coolest web site for making gorgeous flower paintings on your computer!

Just too much fun to play with!
http://www.zefrank.com/flowers/
You can also use it to make mandalas, kaleidoscope patterns, and such, in a huge variety of styles.

From palest pastels in tiny patterns on a white background…

to bold, bright patterns–even just black and white.

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Instead of water-based colors, some people prefer using decorator chalks sometimes. Frankly they look just like pastels to me, but they come in small flat pads in a case, rather than in sticks like pastels. Instead of picking up the piece of colored chalk and rubbing it on the paper, you use your finger or [...]

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Rainbow Stix pencils are some of my favorite cheap, wonderful art tools. As I wrote in September, though, in Pencils that Write a Rainbow, they had disappeared from the stores about three years ago.
Then last Thursday afternoon, surprise! My local dollar store had just gotten in a huge supply of them. (Naturally I bought an [...]

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After the previous post, I ran across something that said that Peter Max never collaborated with the Beatles. It appears that the video I posted was by the artist (not Max) who did the movie, Yellow Submarine. In fact, that may be a clip from the movie (which I’ve never seen).
Any info you can [...]

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How many of us were influenced—or even drawn into art to begin with—by the wonderfully fun art of Peter Max? That 1960s icon of trippy posters is really an accomplished painter whose use of color is tremendously inspiring.
There is a lot to learn from Peter Max. In the 1960s and 1970s he pushed the art [...]

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