How to Paint Clouds and Skies with Watercolor

Watercolor painting is difficult enough all on its own, but there are some objects that people find particularly difficult to paint.  This post will hope to remedy that by showing you several videos that teach you how to paint believable clouds and skies with watercolors.  I found the videos below while searching this topic on YouTube and believe these to be the very best videos there on this topic  I do hope you find these landscape watercolor tips and techniques helpful.  Enjoy!

How To Paint A Blue Sky With Clouds in Watercolor

Watercolor Sky For Beginners -- How To Paint a Variegated Wash

How to Paint a Watercolor Sky with Wilson Bickford

Simple Skies in Watercolour

Terry Madden’s Watercolor Workshop Painting Easy Clouds

How to paint clouds the wet on wet way

Oil Pastel Techniques – Painting on a Photo

Oil pastels are quite versatile and can be worked using a variety of different techniques.  You can thin them down with a paint thinner just like oil paints to create washes or you can apply them thickly as an Impasto.  Like any other medium however, they can be a bit tricky to work with in the beginning.  It is often helpful to observe other artists using oil pastels to help inspire you to develop your own unique style.

I found some really interesting videos today during a Google Video search.  In the following two videos, the artists demonstrates a really cool technique that I never thought to try myself.  She takes a regular digital photograph printed on paper and instead of using the photograph as a reference, she draws directly on the photograph, sort of  using it as a guide.

It really is an excellent way to gain immediate experience handling and using oil pastels.  Enjoy!

How To Draw Realistic Hair – Video Tutorials

I found a couple of excellent videos today on how to draw realistic hair by artist Darrel Tank. Darrel is an amazing artist and author of the website: http://www.fivepencilmethod.com/.  Darrel has perfected a unique technique for drawing amazingly realistic portraits and I invite you to visit his website above to learn more about him and his portrait drawing techniques.

Below are two videos Darrel created that demonstrate his technique on how to draw realistic hair in your portraits.  I know his techniques are going to be a huge help for beginners who are struggling with portrait drawing, especially with drawing hair.  Enjoy !

How to Draw Realistic Hair Demo | Part 1 of 2

How to Draw Realistic Hair Demo | Part 2 of 2

Charcoal Drawing Basics & Techniques For Beginners

Just starting out with charcoal drawing? Looking for some good tips to help you get started? The following is a series of videos collected from YouTube that covers some of the basics, techniques and other great tips for beginners interested in getting started in the charcoal drawing medium. Enjoy!

Charcoal Drawing Basics : Art Supplies for Charcoal Drawing

Charcoal Drawing Basics : Types of Paper for Charcoal Drawing

Tips for Drawing with Charcoal : Types of Charcoal Drawing Paper

Tips for Drawing with Charcoal : Types of Charcoal Drawing Erasers

Charcoal Drawing Basics : Understanding Lighting when Charcoal Drawing

Charcoal Drawing Basics : Quick Sketch vs. Detailed Sketch: Charcoal Drawing

Drawing Basics -- Using Charcoal

Charcoal Drawing Demonstration Using the Subtractive Method

Charcoal Drawing Basics : How to Erase in Charcoal Drawing

Landscape painting on Location on the Blue Ridge Parkway with Roger Bansemer

Acrylic landscape painting demonstration of a mountain scene on the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina with artist Roger Bansemer. In this wonderful video, artist Roger Bansemer demonstrates his techniques for painting outdoors, plein air style, using acrylic paint.

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