May 6th, 2008
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Student Group Show:
Photography, Film &
Digital Art
Reception
Saturday,
May 3, 2008 12pm-2pm
Also open by appointment.
Venice Arts Gallery
1702 Lincoln Blvd.
Venice, CA 90291
(310) 392-0846
Note address change
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May 6th, 2008
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adriannag
Every month we have art supplies prizes to giveaway this month it was a book called ” Everything you need to know about Acrylics ” And the Winner Micah Mayell -Los Angeles
Remember to visit us and enter every time you visit!
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March 25th, 2008
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adriannag

2008 Saving Event Coupon Take 30% off Any One Non-Sale Instock item. Limit one per customer on the day of visit. Coupon print out must be presented to obtain offer.

Utrecht Los Angeles
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March 25th, 2008
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March 18th, 2008
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17th and 18th century. The history of Old Holland Classic Oil Colours goes back to the seventeenth century.
The golden age of the Dutch masters. In this era, the training of painters was organized under the guild system.
The painters’ guilds were called Saint Lucas Guilds, after their patron saint Lucas. Traditional knowledge and skills in the area of the manufacture of paint were passed on from generation to generation in these guilds. In the guild, the master taught the mate and the apprentice.
The apprentice learned to rub the pigments with the binders, the mate learned to mix the colors and make under paintings.
Once the mate was deemed to be skilled enough, he in turn became a master, started his own studio and gained standing.
Around 1664, a Saint Lucas guild in The Hague started the preparations for the establishment of ‘Pictura Brotherhood of Painters and its Academy for the Visual Arts of The Hague’ (1682-1882).
An association of master painters which organized art reviews and where artists drew from dressed models: the first academy. The correct manufacture of paints formed an important part of the education. The Pictura Brotherhood of Painters remained in existence until the nineteenth century. Read the rest of this entry »
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