About Karin Karin Wells is an artist of amazing versatility. She graduated with honors from both the New England School of Art and Design, Boston, 1965, and the Butera School of Art, Boston, 1986. Karin has enjoyed a career as an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator and sign painter. She also taught Life Drawing and Painting […]
Acrylic Portrait Painting Tutorial
Enjoy this free step by step acrylic portrait painting tutorial from artist Christopher Vasil! Using A Limited Palette and A Four Value Underpainting A quick acrylic portrait painting tutorial showing a relatively painless approach to portraits using a limited palette and a four value underpainting. Finished Painting: For the reference I used a free picture […]
How to Clean your Oil Painting Brushes
Learning how to clean your oil painting brushes is important, especially if your brushes are expensive and of high quality. You want to protect that investment so that your brushes will last for years to come. There are a variety of methods for removing oil paint from a brush. If you were to ask 5 […]
How to Begin a Landscape Painting in Oils
In this free oil painting video lesson by artist Dick Ensing you will learn a method for starting a landscape painting using oil paint. This is not the only way to start an oil painting, but it is an excellent method and one that every beginner should become familiar with. The artist will be working […]
Watercolor Painting Tutorial – Change Colors for a Different Effect
About Steve Fleming Good art is the result of hard work and dedication. It only happens when the artist finds his or her own story to tell and then learns to do so with his or her own unique language. I am an artist who works in watercolor and acrylic, and I teach both for […]
Acrylic Painting Layering Techniques – Tutorial by Brandi Deziel
About Brandi Brandi Deziel is a self-taught photorealism painter living and working in Toronto. She creates the illusion of a photograph by layering crisp images with soft, blurred backgrounds and foregrounds thus shifting the attention to the focal object and deceiving the eye. Her work is included in private collections world-wide. Visit Brandi’s Website Here […]
Watercolor Portrait Painting Tutorial
Enjoy this free watercolor portrait painting tutorial by artist Sandrine Pelissier! I hope you learn a great deal from this beginner demonstration. Sophie – Watercolor Portrait Painting Tutorial My last watercolor portrait, asking for my friend Sophie to pose, she has nicely done this a few times for me already: I am still thinking about […]
Opaque Watercolor Tutorial – Painting a Figure
About Steve Fleming Good art is the result of hard work and dedication. It only happens when the artist finds his or her own story to tell and then learns to do so with his or her own unique language. I am an artist who works in watercolor and acrylic, and I teach both for […]
How to Paint a Portrait in Oil from a Photo
About The Artist Chris Saper has painted commissioned portraits for fifteen years, following a seventeen-year career as a health care executive in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to her painting schedule, she is an active portrait instructor, teaching both portrait painting and business skills. Chris is the author of Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color and […]
Egg Tempera Painting Demonstration
About Dennis Harper In addition to working as an artist, Dennis Harper is Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. Formerly Curator of Exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art, Harper served as curatorial advisor for Georgia for the National Museum of Women in the […]