What is the best advice you have ever been given about painting?

What is the best advice you’ve ever been given about your painting?

1.Drawing: Using simple strokes with a brush,

2. Underpainting: I determine the basic value design. I mix transparent red oxide and ultramarine blue for darks and show general shapes of the dark, light, and midtones in a transparent underpainting.

3.Value and Opacity: I start to introduce opacity. I mix grays, cover the light area, and keep the dark area transparent. I’m still ignoring color and am now paying attention only to value .

4. Color Temperature and Relationships:I pay attention only to color relationships, not to the detail of the shapes. 

5: Modeling Individual Elements:

6.Edges and Details: 


I think the number one best piece of advice I ever got about oil 

painting is: You can not have light with out dark.

Pansies in a Tin Can

About This Painting:

Pansies in a Tin Can
oil painting on gallery wrapped stretched canvas
11x14x3/4

Media: oil painting

Size: 14 in X 11 in (35.6 cm X 27.9 cm)

Price: $380 USD

How to Purchase:

Buy this painting on PayPal

Price: $380 USD plus $15 USD s/h

Or, send me an email

 POST YOUR OPINIONS IN THE COMMENTS" or email me at delilah@artbydelilah.com All work © 2006-2014

Don't Lose you hard earned Art Money

I don't know about you but as artist we are always getting email from sent by scammers. One that I get the most is I am a 12 year old taking an art class and I love your work, we have a class assignment ti interview an artist. Could you give me the following information:
Name
Age
Where you Were Born
Went to School
Mothers Name
Pets Name
And so on....


The 25 Riskiest Passwords

Here are the 25 most common passwords of 2012, along with the change in rank from last year.
 1. password (Unchanged)
 2, 123456 (Unchanged)
 3. 12345678 (Unchanged)
 4. abc123 (Up 1)
 5. qwerty (Down 1)
 6. monkey (Unchanged)
 7. letmein (Up 1)
 8. dragon (Up 2)
 9. 111111 (Up 3)
 10. baseball (Up 1)
 11. iloveyou (Up 2)
 12. trustno1 (Down 3)
 13. 1234567 (Down 6)
 14. sunshine (Up 1)
 15. master (Down 1)
 16. 123123 (Up 4)
 17. welcome (New)
 18. shadow (Up 1)
 19. ashley (Down 3)
 20. football (Up 5)
 21. jesus (New)
 22. michael (Up 2)
 23. ninja (New)
 24. mustang (New)
 25. password1 (New)
 Using passwords like these will significantly increase your risk of identity and other theft. password (Most popular and easily hacked.)

Tips for making more secure passwords:

 Include punctuation marks and/or numbers.
Mix capital and lowercase letters.

 Include similar looking substitutions, such as the number zero for the letter 'O' or '$' for the letter 'S'.
Create a unique acronym.
 Include phonetic replacements, such as 'Luv2Laf' for 'Love to Laugh'.

 Don't: Don't reuse passwords for multiple important accounts, such as Gmail and online banking.

Don't use a password that is listed as an example of how to pick a good password.

 Don't use a password that contains personal information (name, birth date, etc.)

 Don't use words or acronyms that can be found in a dictionary.

 Don't use keyboard patterns (asdf) or sequential numbers (1234).

Don't make your password all numbers, uppercase letters or lowercase letters.

Don't use repeating characters (aa11).

 Tips for keeping your password secure: Never tell your password to anyone (this includes significant others, roommates, parrots, etc.).

* Never write your password down.

* Never send your password (or your credit card or bank account info) by email. Sounds obvious, but if I had a dollar for every time someone did this, well, I'd have lot of extra cash.

Email is not secure. It's like writing your passwords on the back of a postcard and mailing it.

 Periodically test your current password and change it to a new one, at least four times a year.

 Don't let your computer "remember" your passwords. Yeah, I know it's easier than remembering them, but you don't want that info stored where someone (other than you) can get at it.

* About the "don't write them down or tell them to anyone" part: I have so many passwords that I can't possibly remember them all, so I keep them in a password-protected file. Of course, I made the password to that file especially difficult and named the file with something that has nothing to do with passwords (I didn't call it "Passwords").


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Memorial Day Tip

Freedom and opportunity only exist if they are used.

And one of the ways we fuel our dreams and empower the future is by "borrowing" confidence from the past. Celebrate your past achievements and use them to know, deep inside, that you can boldly go wherever your wish in the future. Go climb some big mountains! Paint a painting that you have been thinking about.

As I often do, I want to remind you to enjoy nature this weekend. Go for a hike, watch the flowers grow, fly a kite or have a barbeque, and enjoy the changing seasons. This is your life--enjoy it!
Liberty and democracy are fragile things and they do not flourish by themselves. They require loving care and costly sacrifice by those who cherish them. Every day, liberty is under attack by those who would censor our words, our thoughts and our prayers. Every day, freedom is challenged by often good, well-intentioned people who want more "order" or more political correctness at the expense of our liberty.

Flag, We Remember

About This Painting:

We Remember
7x5 oil painting on canvas mounted on a museum quality panel read to frame ro set on a small table top easle,

Media: oil painting

Size: 5 in X 7 in (12.7 cm X 17.8 cm)

Price: $100 USD

How to Purchase:

Buy this painting on PayPal

Price: $100 USD plus $10 USD s/h

Or, send me an email

" POST YOUR OPINIONS IN THE COMMENTS" or email me at delilah@artbydelilah.com All work © 2006-2014

How to Sell Prints of Your Art Work

Print on Demand - Online Printing


It seems to me like the best way for artists these days to begin selling prints of their work is one line. There are a number of companies who offer this online service, but basically it works like this:

1. You upload a good quality photo of your artwork to the print on demand website.

 2. You set the prices and options for your prints and the company adds their costs and markups.

 3. A buyer purchases a print of your work from the website in any of the print options available. eg. paper, canvas wrap, acrylic print, postcards, etc.

 4. The print company automatically produces the order and delivers it to the buyer. 

5. The print company pays you at the end of the month for your sales. Fineartamerica.com 

 I can tell you that I sell a few this way and I am confident it will grow. There is a very low fee of $30 you can hardly go wrong. As the artist you also get the opportunity to purchase prints of your own work at cost price. So if you need prints for a show so darn easy.

They also give you your own website for this price and a blog and all sorts of promotional tools - quite amazing actually. Now for my shameless self promotion:if you're looking for a cheaper way to own some of my artwork - here's your chance! :-) Just click here


(By the way that's an affiliate link so I do get a wee commission from them if you sign up - nifty the way you can make money online isn't it? Always thinking. You can do the same yourself if you sign up with them.)

Here is the Link: Fine Art America

So get going , I can here the cha-ching in your pay pal account right now.





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One way to clean your brushes and smell like a Baby

"Baby oil will clean your hands and brushes, but before you use those brushes again-make sure that they're washed out really well with turp before beginning your next painting session." - Ken McGavin

I clean my brush with turp then swish the in baby oil smell so good. Then I just give the a swish in turp in the morning and we are ready to rock and roll.


Bluegill Pond

About This Painting:

Bluegill Pond
8x10 oil painting on canvas mounted on a museum quality panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

Price: $200 USD

How to Purchase:

Buy this painting on PayPal

Price: $200 USD plus $10 USD s/h

Or, send me an email

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Thank You:
Art by Delilah, with a Passion for PaintingAll Images © 2006-2014

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How to Grow Your Art Businness

All Artist know, there really isn't enough time in the day to do everything.

 There's creating of the paintings (thumbnails, concepts to work out, study of the material for your painting, actual time to paint), marketing of yourself to sell your paintings, shipping of paintings, contacting galleries, contacting clients, finding new clients, sending out newsletters, doing studies, etc... a thousand little things to do.

 It can get overwhelming at time. The more pressure that you put on yourself, the more stress that you are going to feel.
But despite the hubbub and distractions, the conflicting goals and shifting priorities, I’m finding it really does get easier.

Orange by Delilah

About This Painting:

Orange
5x7 oil painting on canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)

Price: $100 USD

How to Purchase:

Buy this painting on PayPal

Price: $100 USD plus $10 USD s/h

Or, send me an email

" POST YOUR OPINIONS IN THE COMMENTS" or email me at delilah@artbydelilah.com All work © 2006-2014

What is glazing an oil painting all about?

What is glazing? 

Glazing is the application of one or more thin, transparent (or nearly transparent) layers of paint over another color. The lower layer must be dry so that the colors do not mix physically. Light passes through the glaze, reflects off of the opaque layer below it, and then is reflected back through the glaze to the observer's eye, modifying the color in the process. For example, a blue glaze applied over a yellow will modify the yellow toward green. Glazing always results in a darker color than the original.

Turnip Still Life

About This Painting:

Turnip Still Life
oil painting on canvas
8x10x3/4

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

Price: $200 USD

How to Purchase:

Buy this painting on PayPal

Price: $200 USD plus $10 USD s/h

Or, send me an email

" POST YOUR OPINIONS IN THE COMMENTS" or email me at delilah@artbydelilah.com All work © 2006-2014