About Beatriz Beatriz Socorro began her formal art training at age 10. During 5 years, she studied art with the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary in Montreal, Canada, where she learned drawing, perspective, the use of light and shadow to obtain depth and likeness as well as clay sculpture. Professionally, she […]
Acrylic Still Life Painting Step by Step
About the Artist Prior to painting full time I’ve worked in Museums, taught in schools, set up and ran my own gallery for 5 years and have taught hundreds of people to paint and draw. I’ve studied Classical atelier techniques in Italy alongside conceptual art at the Tate Gallery, London. I’ve painted in watercolours, acrylics […]
Genesis Heat Set Paint Tutorial Step by Step
About Leslie Leslie Tribolet lives on Kauai with her husband and her animals. She studied at Santa Barbara Art Institute back in the 70’s, but with pencil as her medium of choice. During her battle with both cervical and breast cancer, she decided to try to learn how to paint for something to do. She […]
How to Paint a Still Life in Watercolor – “Tomatoes”
Below is a wonderful step by step tutorial on how to paint a still life in watercolor by artist John Fisher (see bio and website link below). I hope you find this demonstration helpful and enjoyable! Happy Painting! Watercolour Sill Life techniques – Still Life with Tomatoes Another in my series of watercolour demos based […]
Negative Space Painting Watercolor Tips and Techniques
Negative space painting is a fairly simple concept, but not so easy to explain. Instead of first painting the main subjects of a composition, the areas of interest, like a tree, house or person for instance, you paint in the areas, or space, around these objects. The area or space around the main objects in […]
Oil Portrait Demo Using the Dry Brush Technique
About Sandrine Pelissier I grew up in France but have been living in Canada for the last 12 years, I am currently located in North Vancouver and work from a studio on Pemberton Avenue. Watercolor is my medium of choice because of the unique way it allows me to render light. The transparency of this […]
Golden Fluid Acrylics Review by Blick Art Materials
The fluid acrylics line from Golden are a highly intense and permanent paint with the consistency similar to that of heavy cream. The pigment strength used in these paints is very similar to the pigment load that is used to make Golden’s Heavy Body Acrylics. The only real difference is the consistency. These paints are […]
Step by Step Painting in Oils of an Australian Landscape
About Julie Duell Julie Duell (nee Henderson) is a 6th generation Australian going back to the First Fleet of English convicts to arrive in Sydney cove in 1788. She also has a drop of American Shoshone Indian heritage for good measure! Julie was born in Sydney in 1941 and continued to reside in Sydney environs […]
Wet on Wet Oil Painting Lessons and Techniques – Videos from the Masters
Wet on wet oil painting (also known as Alla Prima) is a direct painting method where, as the name suggests, wet paint is applied on top of wet paint. The entire painting is usually completed in one session. The following post contains a collection of videos found on YouTube from 2 of the most talented […]
Acrylic Landscape Painting Step by Step
Acrylic Landscape Painting Step by Step The following is an acrylic landscape painting step by step in a 4 part video series created by Artist Will Kemp of Will Kemp Art School. This video series will demonstrate how to paint a beautiful landscape painting in acrylics. You can download a copy of the photograph Will […]