Learn to Draw People- Realistic Portrait Drawing Tutorial
So if you are passionate about learning how to draw the human body, specifically the face, then you are sure to find the following tutorial extremely helpful.
The following is a 6 part video lesson demonstrating step by step, the process of drawing a realistic portrait. It was created by the very talented portrait artist Ron Lemen.
Unfortunately, this drawing series has not been completed yet or the artist has not yet uploaded the final part. I wasn’t planning on posting this incomplete tutorial, but it is such a valuable lesson, that I just couldn’t pass it up. I hope you don’t mind. I promise to post the final part if and when it becomes available.
Grab your favorite pencils and paper and draw along. I hope you enjoy this realistic portrait drawing tutorial! Read more
Artist Spotlite – Maya Engelmohr
Name: Maya Engelmohr
Location: Velddrif, Cape West Coast, South Africa
Title: Yacht on the Bergriver
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 35 x 28 x 1.4
Support: Canvas
Artist Spotlite – Jonathan Kwegyir Aggrey
Name: Jonathan Kwegyir Aggrey
Title: The Heart of Katapor Village
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 19” x 27”
Location: Accra, Ghana.
Background:
The Heart of Katapor Village
“Katapor is a small traditional town in the central part of Pokuase in the Greater Accra Region where I live. The main occupation in the town is farming and stone cracking by hand. The opened space in the painting is the Heart of Katapor Village where traditional drums are beaten to summon the people to hear an announcement about a festival or any important village matters.
I captured this scene late one morning using a limited palette in a combination of earth colors and greens. I left the areas lit by the sun as white paper and emphasized on the shadows to show the time of the day. The figures and birds in the foreground shows the typical movement of the people and the type of domestic animals commonly found in the village. I infused several colors during the painting process to capture the mood and atmosphere.
I added graceful frontal branches with some leaves on the top left to help balanced with the foliages on the right side of the composition. The brushstrokes are very useful for balancing a painting or to fill up space that looks bare.”
Acrylic Painting Tips & Techniques For Beginners
Acrylic paint, when compared with other mediums like oil paint, is a fairly new addition to the world of painting. It has only been around since the 1950′s . It has been continually under development and refinement since that time. Just because acrylic paint has not been around as long as oils, does not make these paints less important or enjoyable.
Some of the wonderful benefits of using acrylic paints are their versatility, permanence and ease of use. These paints can be applied thickly as an impasto or in thin washes similar to watercolor. Acrylic paint does not yellow or harden with age like oils.
Landscape Painting Tutorial – Painting Clouds
One of the more difficult things to accomplish in landscape painting is creating realistic clouds. If you learn the right techniques and apply them correctly, painting clouds is actually quite easy as the following 
landscape painting tutorial will demonstrate. Grab some fresh paint, a new canvas, some clean brushes and try out the following tutorial. Don’t get discouraged if you aren’t able to create realistic clouds at first. Keep practicing and eventually it will become second nature. Enjoy!
Oil Painting Lesson – Wilson Bickford – Clouds
Acrylic Painting Technique – Using Alcohol with Acrylic Paints
I found this really cool video on YouTube today from artist Howard L. Cowdrick. He demonstrates a fascinating 
acrylic painting technique using alcohol. It is a very interesting way to work with acrylics. I know many artists get somewhat bored sometimes and are looking for ideas to breathe new life into their work and I hope this video helps inspire you!
Enjoy!
Acrylic Painting Technique – How to Use Alcohol with Acrylics
You Asked – Paint Realistic Water in Watercolor?
Today’s question comes from Winifred:
“Can anyone tell me how to paint realistic moving water in watercolour?”
Do you have any information that might help Winifred?
Please leave your response in the comments box below. Thanks!
Watercolor Painting Lesson – How To Paint With 4 Pigments
About Cyrille
Once upon a time … August 96, weary of the ordinary pleasures of the seaside, I left my wife and children playing on the beach and went to write a few letters to our friends in France. My children’s felt pens were lying on the table, so I used them to sketch a few scattered scenes to illustrate my letters. I sent out about 20 letters. Back home, at the end of the holidays, I received a very enthusiastic phone call : “your letter was great and we absolutely loved your drawings ! You should become an artist”. In the space of a few days, I received 18 identical phone calls. Eighteen ! That’s a lot !
“Bet I will !”
It was then and there that I decided to become a painter before even having touched a single paint brush. I started with my wife’s watercolor box, my kid’s gouache paint brushes and began my own experimenting. Not taking a few watercolor lessons and learning it all on my own could be considered a total waste of time, but instead, I just see the good side of it: I created my own style !
Drawing Lesson – A Theory of Light and Shade
Sheri Lynn Boyer Doty CPSA -Biography 2010
Sheri Doty received a B F A degree in 1972 from the University of Utah with a painting and drawing emphasis. Having experimented with non-representational styles during her student years, Sheri preferred classic realism as thought by professor Alvin Gittons. He and the professors, under whom she studied, emphasized strong drawing and painting skills. Sheri is a faculty member of Salt Lake Community College and Peterson’s Art center where she teaches Fine Art and Design.
Sheri’s paintings have earned her awards in regional, national and international art exhibitions and invitational shows including purchase awards and permanent museum acquisitions. Sanford Corporation has used her artwork to showcase its PRISMACOLOR colored pencil product line internationally. Sheri is a charter member and signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America [C.P.S.A.].
Sheri’s artwork has been published in numerous books including The Encyclopedia of Colored Pencil Techniques by Quarto Publishing, London England;Most of The Best of Colored Pencil series by Rockport Publishers, Creative Colored Pencil Techniques by Rockport Publishers, Creative Colored Pencil Portraits byri’s art work is included is Rockport Publishers and The Best of Portrait Painting by North Light Books, Dear Sisters by Covenant Communications Inc. Sheri’s artwork is published on book covers, in newspapers, periodicals, and exhibit catalogues.
Drawing the Human Figure – How to Get Started
Then the genius of Michelangelo and Leonardo rose like a pair of new suns, to shed light on the darkness. Even so accomplished a master as Raphael was grateful for the lessons provided by their works. Like everyone since, Raphael realised he could never attain the perfection of Michelangelo. Like us, he could only look and wonder.
But Leonardo did something that surpassed the relatively small body of paintings he produced; something that must endear him to all artists who follow. With a scientist’s curiosity, he investigated the mechanics of Nature. What’s more, he left an invaluable legacy of detailed reports on what he uncovered. To make his discoveries, Leonardo had to dissect cadavers, teaching himself as he went. We, thankfully, don’t need to go through that. Today, we have the benefit of his hard-won knowledge available in texts of varying degrees of complexity.
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