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 […]
Pastel Portrait Painting Demonstration Step by Step
Enjoy this beautiful pastel portrait painting demonstration by artist Jean Hildebrant. Jean Hildebrant paints in oil and pastel mediums. Specializing in portraits and figurative works (see full bio below). Pastel Portrait Painting Demonstration Step 1 I recently was the demo artist for UArt sanded pastel paper at the NAMTA trade show. I started this on […]
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 […]
Colored Pencil Drawing Tutorial Step by Step
About Veronica Native of Russia, Veronica Winters was born in 1976 in Smolensk Region. She has spent her childhood living in Zelenograd, a suburb of Moscow known for its electronic industry. Veronica always thought of herself as an artist but with the collapse of the Soviet Union she pursued a different career and received her […]
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 […]
How to Paint a Landscape in Pastel
Artist Biography – Phil Laughlin, PSA EVOLUTION OF A LANDSCAPE PAINTER Phil Laughlin was born in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Like most kids, he enjoyed drawing, but you wouldn’t have guessed from his childhood that art would become his passion. At home, the idea of a career in the arts was never […]