Enjoy this wonderful free lesson that teaches important watercolor painting landscape techniques and how to create paintings that give the illusion of being bathed in beautiful sunlight! Painting those Light-Filled Days – Watercolor Painting Landscape Techniques by Steve Fleming One of the most wonderful subjects you’ll ever find to paint in watercolor is the landscape […]
Acrylic Portrait Painting Demonstration
This is a really cool 6 part acrylic portrait painting demonstration by artist ERIC T. FRANCIS. This portrait painting tutorial will teach you how to paint your very own portrait, start to finish, with the aid of a free software program called Gimp. If you don’t have this software, you can download it here. Computer […]
Watercolor Pencil Techniques For Beginners
Here is a great video demonstrating the versatility of Watercolor Pencils. In this video, Artist Tim Fisher demonstrates and explains a handful of interesting Watercolor Pencil Techniques For Beginners, both wet and dry, that you can achieve using this versatile medium. The reason Watercolor Pencils are so versatile is because they can act both like […]
Oil Painting Demonstration – Portrait by Philip Howe
By Philip Howe The following oil painting demonstration is courtesy of Philip Howe . When you are finished viewing this demonstration, please take a moment to visit Philip’s site to view more of his artwork and to learn more about him. You may also be interested in Philip’s New Book: “Angels – The Artwork of […]
Watercolor Painting Tutorial – Value Pattern
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 Make Soft Pastels by Hand
About Phyllis Russell Franklin Phyllis has always painted. From her earliest memory she recalls how much she enjoyed the play of color and the creative process of all visual arts. During her childhood years she found many creative ways to fill that need to make things beautiful by playing with house paints creating many paintings […]
Portrait Painting Tutorial – How I Painted Joanna’s Portrait
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 […]
How To Paint a Cactus with Acrylics
I found a really interesting video tutorial today from a very talented artist by the name of Rudy Kistler. This is a still life painting lesson on how to paint a cactus, a subject that you really don’t see that often. This tutorial is broken down into 10 different steps for your convenience making it easy […]
Blick Presents: Prismacolor Pencils – Verithin, Art Stix and Colored Pencils
Prismacolor is a popular brand of professional artist supplies offering a variety of products including colored pencils, markers, pastels, charcoal and graphite. In this post, the folks over at Dick Blick will be discussing the popular colored pencil products that Prismacolor offers: Colored Pencils, Verithin and Art Stix. The Art Stix are available in 48 […]
Charcoal Drawing Tutorial Step by Step by Dan Schultz
Enjoy this free step by step charcoal drawing tutorial by artist Dan Scultz. Step by Step Charcoal Drawing Tutorial For this drawing I used vine charcoal and compressed charcoal on Strathmore 400 series 80 lb. drawing paper. Step 1: I decided to start this drawing by toning the sky area with vine charcoal and a […]