Jennifer Gillen
Gray Background & Vignetting Removed!
Fixing the gray background on a botanical painting photograph.
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JENNIFER GILLEN
Realistic Watercolor and Botanical Art
Jennifer Gillen
- Mar 17, 2022
- 2 min
The Romeo and Juliet Series
It's officially a series! I'm finishing the third painting in a series of traditional botanical paintings based on Shakespeare's Romeo...
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Jennifer Gillen
- Feb 21, 2022
- 2 min
The Size of Art
Have you ever noticed the different sizes of museum paintings? Maybe, if you're like me, when you leave a museum, you think about all of...
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Jennifer Gillen
- Feb 19, 2022
- 2 min
The Artistic Voice
If you can walk into a museum filled with art and identify the artists without looking at the placard, then you understand artistic...
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Jennifer Gillen
- Jul 18, 2021
- 2 min
The Artist as a Reader
We are what we read! Books influence artists in many ways.
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Jennifer Gillen
- Jun 22, 2021
- 3 min
Painting a Realistic Rose in Watercolor
How I paint large roses in watercolor. This is a technical post for those who are curious.
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Jennifer Gillen
- Aug 26, 2019
- 3 min
Five Ways to Power Through
Some of my paintings take 50+ hours to complete. Here's how I make it through very slow work--and it's not just patience!
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