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It's the fifth Creeping Wednesday!
Today's theme is a rat, so be careful if you're afraid of them, like my mother, for example. Or her mother... And grandma's mother, too. Many thanks to *Sieskja and *SandraHultsved, who suggested a great part of this feature. The next theme is a witch - but it's not about those oh ah pretty ones, I mean those with warts, troll noses and half of their teeth. Are you brave enough to find them?

3 questions to :iconsocar:, a neat rat portraitist - but not only!
What is that attracts you to Traditional Art?Traditional art, more particularly pen & ink, was the first type of art I became comfortable with. I tried out digital art for a few years, when it started gaining in popularity, but I never became accustomed to looking at the screen while drawing on the tablet. It felt awkward, and didn't give me the kind of control I was looking for. Al

Darkroom Exposed: Digital OverlaysDarkroom Exposed is a series of articles highlighting talented deviants, noteworthy art and helpful information all about the Photography > Darkroom gallery on dA.
This issue features digital overlays, which are created by layering two or more images (including but not limited to texture and colour layers) to create a final image, mimicking the effect of exposing photographic paper to two or more negatives and/or filters during printing. This differs from photomanipulations, where elements of numerous images are separately extracted and combined to make a final image.

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To Be Seen .12A weekly article featuring five photographers from all areas in the deviantART community. Spare a bit of time to take a gander at the photographs and their respective galleries showcased below!
~Sssssergiu

~GZB

*BootlessInWonderland

*NataliaCiobanu

~simsalabima

If you have any suggestions for (improving) the Photography Gallery, anything photography related in #communityrelations that you would like/we

Not So Traditional Tuesdays #3I'm staying with my plan to will keep the features fresh for me(and you) and maybe open a few eyes to all the different kinds of artwork that is available while browsing the deviantArt galleries. The things that make one piece of art great applies, for the most part, to other genres. A painter can learn how light and shadow fall from photography, photo-manipulators can learn about composition from a great Manga drawing, and literature can give you the inspiration to try something new or take your work to the next step. You may never try all art forms you see! You can however take what you learn from them and incorporate that into your own work. It could be the difference between stagnating and that breakthrough every artist wants to find!

It's not late this time!
Mainly because I wasn't asleep!

**WARNING:Viewing these works of art may cause giddiness, elevated heart rates, and happiness in the pants(which could lead to blindness)! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!**
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Traditional Tuesdays #40Welcome to edition 40 of Traditional Tuesdays. This week, like all of the other weeks, I'll be featuring
fifteen works of art from the Traditional Gallery. Any more than that might and you might loss interest or it could cause your monitor to fail in an explosion of awesomeness. I would feel guilty if that were to happen, so I'm keeping it at fifteen! The Traditional gallery is a vast storeroom of work that covers many mediums and genres. I've tried to show a good mix of artwork, but I don't have room for them all. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!
**WARNING:Viewing these works of art may cause giddiness, elevated heart rates, and
happiness in the pants(which could lead to blindness)! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!**

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Creeping Wednesday #6

It's the witch's hour in the 6th Creeping Wednesday! Warts, papillas, crooked noses, humpbacks, broomsticks and kettles and cauldrons. I'm glad that I could find plenty of sculptures for this feature! No suggesters this time, unfortunately. For the next article, I'm looking for frames and borders... but with a picture inside - and traditional. I'm sure you know plenty of such, don't hesitate to mention them!

3 questions to :iconboggleboy:, a great sculptor of magic characters!

What is that attracts you to Traditional Art?
Well, you have to understand that I am of an age that there was no such distinction originally in the art world, fine art or commercial art, at least not in the sense of that phrase these days... If any one used the term "traditional art" before the advent of the various digital aided mediums, they m

Creeping Wednesday #13 :iconghostystareplz:

Welcome in the year 2013! It's the 13th Creeping Wednesday and the air grows chilly as this time we're going to see and read all about ghosts. Thanks to ~JadasArtVision and *SandraHultsved for suggesting some very nice artworks for this issue. The next theme is going to be... pinups! Keep in mind, dear suggesters, that I'm looking for the creeping ones (: done traditionally and relatively not popular.

3 questions to ~RossanaCastellino, a wonderful dark creator!
What is that attracts you to traditional art?
I've always had a passion for traditional techniques. I've been drawing since I was a little girl and I immediately fell in love with color

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CR Newsletter January/February 2013 Director of Community Relations :iconmoonbeam13: :
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Celebrating Diversity #1Welcome to this new series of Art Features! Even tho most of you are aware of the many many galleries and categories here on dA, I think most of us move in a sort of "comfort zone" between Galleries, Channels or Groups that provide us with a constant flow of new art. And sometimes we forget all the other great artforms, styles and media that are out of our "comfort zone". And today I want to step out of that warm and cuddly place and feature some awesome works from places on dA I don't usually visit!
Since this is the first entry, I thought I should explain it a bit more, so that is why there is more text in this article

The topic of celebrating diversity is something that I really want to cherish. I am guilty of not fully

To Be Seen .06A weekly article featuring five photographers from all areas in the deviantART community. Spare a bit of time to take a gander at the photographs and their respective galleries showcased below!
*ladiespet

~RADIANTROSAS

=seeinglight

*micmojo

~heyydaydreamer

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Creeping Wednesday #7

Journal Entry: Tue Sep 25, 2012, 10:44 PM

In the seventh Creeping Wednesday feature, all is framed with more or less complicated borders, but they're all nice! This time, some of the shown artworks were suggested by *SandraHultsved, =SingingFlames and *erinclaireb so many thanks to them! For the next feature, I'm looking for creepy spiders! The big ones and the small ones, the fat ones and the thin ones, singles and hordes. The spider theme was suggested by =Eitvys200. Please remember that I'm looking only for Traditional Art pieces - and the less popular they are, the better.

And check #Traditionalists - community project for traditional artists!

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3 questions to , a fabulous fantasy artist!

What is that attracts you to Traditional Art?
I have always been interested in art. As a child I used to draw a lot instead of paying attention at school. I have always been drawn to traditional media. I did go through a short interest in digital art when I got my first computer, but I wasn’t very good at it. I went right back to my coloured pencils and watercolours. There is something satisfying about the tangible aspect of a physical piece, of putting down the paint with your own brush, and controlling the process of creation with your own hand. When art is hand made, patience is demanded. Time is needed for practice and the accumulation of the skills. Digital art is too perfect, too clean. I like the roughness, even the mistakes, that come with traditional media.

When and why did you start drawing frames in your pictures?

I‘ve always adored the art of Alfons Mucha and loved playing with details. I really can’t remember the time when I started drawing frames, but it was a natural process. I felt that my drawings needed something more and drawing frames was an ideal way to make my works special.

What are your preferable themes?
I prefer drawing fantasy characters the most. I’ve always been interested in the fantasy world. As a child I was attracted to fantasy books, later movies, so it was very natural to dedicate myself to draw that kind of things. I prefer drawing people (fantasy or real), but I enjoy creating fantasy creatures and real animals too. I always try to put something from the world of nature into my works (leaves, floral ornaments ... ).

Thank you for this nice interview!

Let's speak more about #Traditionalists - it's a group aimed at giving the traditional art community their own unique voice by giving the traditionalists a place to gather, organize, and inform others with the help and guidance of the traditional Community Volunteer team. The idea behind this project was to open the channels of communication between the traditional community and the traditional CVs so that we can all work together and develop a main hub for all things traditional.

So, to sum it up - to all people loving traditional art - come and join us!

And now... more frames.