Artist Spotlite – Paul J. McCall

Artist: Paul J. McCall

Location: Blackstone, Massachusetts

Title of Artwork: “Late Fall Country Road”

Dimensions of Artwork: 8 ½” x 11”

Medium: Pen and Ink

Support: Paper

Describe this Piece: I did this piece in 1984 strictly from imagination. I began with the barn and let the rest happen. Now that’s freedom.

10 Watercolor Painting Demonstrations to Get your Creative Juices Flowing

Over the years, we have accumulated a number of exceptional watercolor painting demonstrations both here at artinstructionblog.com and creativespotlite.com. I thought it would be a good idea to create a post that highlights some of the best demonstrations that have been submitted in the event you have not already viewed these during your stay here.

Here are 10 wonderful watercolor painting demonstrations to get your create juices flowing:

Watercolor Painting Lesson – How To Paint With 4 Pigments

Watercolor Painting Demonstration – Fluffy Young Duckling

How to Paint Darks and Shadows in Watercolor by Mara Mattia

Free Step By Step Watercolor Lesson By Aileen McLeod

Watercolor Brushwork Lesson By Steve Fleming

How To Paint a Rose in Watercolor Step By Step By Doris Joa

Step by Step Watercolor Painting By Alistair Butt

Painting in Watercolor: Alyssa’s Portrait

How to Paint Backward by Ken Hosmer

Watercolour painting – Equipment, Materials and Demonstration

Learn and Master Painting – An Artists Review

There is a brand new home instruction course entitled Learn & Master Painting which is quite easily the best home instruction course available in teaching you how to paint with oils.

Unlike most of the people reviewing this course online, I am an artist and actually own this course, so rest assured you are getting an honest review..

I like to refer to Learn and Master Painting as an “Art School in a Box”, because it is quite literally like attending a professional Art School within the comfort of your own home,without the huge price tag associated with professional instruction.

Not only is the course professional and affordable, but unlike attending an art school, you have the ability to watch these courses over and over again. So if something does not sink in right away, you can play the DVD’s again and practice something until it does.

The Learn and Master Painting home study course was designed by Master Artist, Gayle Levee. It can be quite difficult to find a teacher that is not only talented, but one that is also a good teacher and communicator. Gaylee Levee is all three. You can learn more about Gayle by visiting her website.

I know how unbelievably frustrating it is when you are just starting out. You have an enormous amount of creativity within you that is just screaming to be poured out onto the canvas, but you just can’t seem to get over those beginner hurdles. The Learn & Master Painting course is your solution.

The Learn and Master Painting course comes jam packed with 20 professionally produced DVD’s, 3 Music CD’s (you can listen to these while you are painting), a detailed lesson book with extra information, and a free support website that will provide you with access to an entire community of artists who have also purchased the Learn and Master Painting Course. There you will find support and encouragement from instructor Gaylee Levee as well as from other students from all over the world.

So, if you have the desire and the patience that is necessary to become an accomplished artist and to start producing your own masterpieces, then I highly recommend you take the next step and invest in the Learn and Master Painting Course.

Gaylee Levee will take you step by step through the process of becoming an accomplished painter. You will learn about perspective, how to organize your studio, how to care for your art materials, how to develop compositions….all of the foundational skills needed to become the artist you have always aspired to be.

My favorite part of this course is that you will be able to complete several paintings along with Gayle from start to finish! It doesn’t get much better than this.

Feel like you may be too experienced for this course? Think again—I bet this course has something to teach you as well. This course has advanced training like perspective and color theory that aren’t available in most training courses.

Whatever difficulties and problems you are experiencing right now, Learn & Master Painting is the solution. This course is surprisingly affordable for what it contains and there are flexible payment options to fit most budgets.

I recommend this course wholeheartedly to anyone wishing to learn how to become an accomplished artist. There is no other home study course in existence today of this caliber.

One last thing. Do not buy this course if you are not serious about devoting the time and energy into learning how to paint or if you do not have patience. Without patience and hard work, this course will do you no good.

So are you ready to become a master painter? Head on over and order the world’s most complete video instruction course for painting now! I know you are going to enjoy this course.

Color Mixing Tutorials & Resources For Oil Paints

One of the biggest challenges for artists just starting out with oil painting is mixing colors. Color is a powerful tool. If handled improperly, things can become quite messy. Improperly mixed colors lead to muddy or unbalanced paintings. The good news is, with practice, you will become more skilled at mastering color in your oil paintings. I have collected a number of color mixing tutorials below including links to articles, videos and books. I hope you find these oil painting color mixing resources helpful.

VIDEOS:

How to Mix Colors for Oil Paints

All About Color

How to Mix Oil Paint -- Video Lessons with Hall Groat II

ARTICLES:

How to Make Better Oil Paintings: Tips & Techniques for Correctly Mixing Color

This is a great post from EmptyEasel.com that talks about correctly mixing colors from a limited palette of only 8 colors. Read the rest of this color mixing tutorial here.

Oil Painting Tips Part 2: Mixing Colors to get Brown and Black

Here is another great post from EmptyEasel.com and is a continuation of the post above that demonstrates mixing oil colors to get browns and blacks. Read this lesson here.

Bill Martins’ Guide to Oil Painting -- Mixing Colors

In this post, Bill Martin talks about his full spectrum of oil colors and how he mixes tints of these colors using titanium white. Read this tutorial here.

Color Theory & Mixing -- 16 Lessons in Colour Theory

This is a very thorough 16 part lesson from Wet Canvas covering color theory and color mixing. It covers everything from the history of color to the Psychology of Color. View these lessons here.

Notes on Colour Mixing by Andrew Newland

On the following page, artist Andrew Newland has provided an introduction to the theory of colour mixing.
He has intended this tutorial as a practical guide to the art of mixing oil paints. Also included is a related color mixing excercise to give yousome It is intended as a practical guide to the mixing of paints and has a related Colour mixing exercise. View this lesson and excercise here.

BOOKS:

Artist Spotlite – Michael Nelson

Your Name: Michael R. Nelson

Location:  Carmichael, California

Title of Artwork: Road to Fort Smith

Dimensions of Artwork:  20 X 40

Medium: Oil

Support: Canvas

Website: http://www.nelsonfinearts.com

Describe this Piece: Western depicting US Marshals and their prisoner wagon transporting a prisoner from the territories to Judge Parker in Fort Smith, Arkansas. There may be a gang of bandits, friends of the prisoners following the wagon in an attempt to rescue him. The original is on permanent display at the U.S. Marshals Headquarters in Washington D.C. and will eventually be on permanent display at the U.S. Marshal Museum in Fort Smith.

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