By Karl Sultana
Because of its ease of handling, pastel is an excellent medium for a beginning painter to learn about color or become more familiar with the various pigments derived from diverse sources and how effectively they blend, contrast, or complement one another.
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By Dean Novosat
Watercolor painting is a free-flowing adventure in color, textures, and form. It is easy when you learn it one step at a time. The art of watercolor painting is rich in traditional techniques and formality. The difficulty in watercolor painting is almost entirely in learning how to anticipate and use the behavior of water, rather than attempting to control or dominate it. A unique quality of watercolor painting is the look obtained when various colors are layered on top of previous colors (after each layer has dried). In rich, mutable, easy-to-mix colors, watercolor painting is perfect for beginners as well as more accomplished artists. A traditional watercolor painting is executed with transparent watercolors with no opaque pigments used and the white of the paper serving as white paint. And today, fine art watercolor painting is a highly respected and much sought after, art form bringing high bids at art auctions around the world
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By Adam Reeder
Before you can
draw a human figure with clothing, muscles, shading, etc., it is necessary to understand the basic proportions of the human figure. Proportions on a figure are simply how long the major anatomical parts of the body are, in relation to each other.
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