Painting Thin Lines and Fat over Lean – a blog question

I had a question from one of my Blog visitors a short while ago and thought my answer might be of use to others, so here it is -
Here’s the question
“Hi Jason,
Thanks for putting this up. Excellent info. I have some additional questions though.
I was wondering how you deal with the lean and fat rule [...]

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How to Paint Fur – Tiger Tutorial

From the Poll it appears that most of you would like to see more fur tutorials and tips, so here is an excerpt from an article I wrote in Artists & Illustrators magazine, if you didn’t see the article in the mag hopefully you will find this of use

It might appear that I painstakingly [...]

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Giraffe Painting – Finished

Well thanks everyone for completing that last poll – very interesting – I’ll adjust my new posts to cover your comments:)
Interestingly composition received quite a large number of votes and for this latest Giraffe painting I felt the composition was lacking somehow.
I was happy with the grass and also the giraffe, but although the giraffe [...]

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Poll Results – Strange but TRUE!!!

Well thanks everyone for completing my latest poll, I would NEVER have predicted that result, would you? - Basically none of you (that answered the poll) are real beginners, but there is an almost complete 50 / 50 of advanced and novice artists!
I have a feeling that the beginners just haven’t taken the poll, but rushed [...]

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So Your Almost All Artists! Lets Steamline this Blog Even More!

That poll was super interesting for me, I hope you all found it interesting to.
So basically almost everyone that visits my website is an artist, looking for tips or instruction or just browsing to see how other artists do things. 
That is fine and great, but now that prompts another question, one that will help me [...]

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A Pole to Benefit us All ;0)

To continue my post on getting to know you all a little better I thought it might be a cool idea to find out whether most of my visitors are collectors of art (ie from people just interested in looking at paintings to full blown collectors)  or artists themselves (ie  from professional artists to complete [...]

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I know Your Bloated But Please – Don’t Miss Out!

These days we are all suffering from bloat – email bloat that is!!!
Every time I check my email I get another load of garbage in my inbox and I think everyone is suffering the same fate – it’s a real shame – it’s spoiling the net.
So the last thing you want to do is give [...]

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Don’t forget to Talk to me :)

Well I’m delighted to say that just about everyday the number of visits to my Blog increases – that’s got to be good news right??? Well it means I’m not typing out all these pages for nothing! Ha….
But hey…. why not introduce yourself, drop me an email, make a comment on my blog, tell me [...]

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Giraffe Painting – Detailing The Grass

The giraffe painting is coming along now – learn my secret for creating realistic grasses!

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Giraffe Painting – Tutorial (WIP) Latest Original Oil Painting

I’ve just started to paint this magnificent African Giraffe. The photos below shows the very 1st stages – I have drawn the giraffe and scene on the canvas and also toned the canvas with Burnt Sienna, just to eliminate the stark whiteness. I’ve also started to block in the sky and distant trees / bushes.
The [...]

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