Oil Painting Tips – How To Keep Your Colors Pure

One of the biggest hurdles for beginner oil painters is learning how to keep colors pure. How many times have you started an oil painting only to quit from frustration because things just didn’t look right. Your colors were muddy or they just lacked brilliance. This is a very common problem for artists just starting out with oil paints. Hopefully the in this article will help relieve some of your frustration and enable you to finally enjoy painting. Read more

Plein Air Painting Demo by Robert Lewis

This demo is presented by award-winning plein air artist Robert Lewis. The demo takes place on a bluff over the Monterey Bay.

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Composing a Portrait

By John A Burton

This article merely aims to highlight the key “rules” of composition, and focuses primarily on a head and shoulders portrait of a single sitter.

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An Introduction to Color Theory for Painters

Color is a very broad topic. Entire books have been written on color and it would be quite difficult to cover every aspect of it within the confines of this article. My hopes with this introduction to is to peek your interest and hopefully cause you to study this topic further on your own. Understanding color theory is perhaps one of the most important aspects of becoming a good painter. When you understand the elements of color and how colors interact with one another, you have unlocked one of the biggest puzzles of painting. Read more

Artist Spotlite – Daad Abi Saab

Artist: Daad Abi Saab

Location: BEIRUT- LEBANON

Title: The Rocky Shore

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Artist Spotlite – Tiffany Pacileo

Artist: Tiffany Pacileo

Title: “Golden Gate/Matangi”

Medium: 35mm Double Exposure Photograph

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Watercolor Painting Tutorial – Distant Hills & Mountains

This tutorial for painting distant hills and mountains is taken from my Watercolor Secrets course. This is the first lesson in the “hill & mountains” DVD and we progress gradually from here..

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You Asked – Using Zinc White?

Todays question comes from Helen and she asks:

“In using oil paints, I always use Titanium White, where and how is Zinc White used (Mixing White )? Thank You .”

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Interview With Artist Sandy Sandy

About Sandy Sandy

Sandy SandySince 1996, Sandy Sandy has been a professional fine artist and has devoted her career to painting full time. After a divorce, she left behind a thriving advertising, illustration and sign company which she owned and operated for seventeen years. Sandy currently works in her spacious art studio from her NJ Pine Barrens home. Here she is inspired by the wildlife that visits her yard daily. A strong connection with animals and nature is evident in her choice of subjects. Her philosophy of “spirit” is woven into her work, where thousands of watercolors have given way to her flowing expressionist style.

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Watercolor Painting Demonstration – Fluffy Young Duckling
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