Karrie on Canvas – Acrylic Painting Tutorial – Women Love Shopping

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Back to the video.  This is an acrylic painting demonstration by artist Karrie Evenson.  If you are a fan of acrylic painting and trying something new and different, then this video is for you.  Karrie has a very unique style of painting that you are sure to find refreshing and enjoyable.

If you only learn one thing from Karrie, it would be to just let go and don’t be afraid to try new things.  One of the biggest problems beginners face is the fear of wasting paint or of producing an ugly painting.  If you are constantly fearful and holding back with your painting, you will never get any better.

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Oil Painting Art Course – Learn to Paint by Copying Paintings in Museums or Home – Michelangelo Did

By Barry Waldman

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni’s father sent him for formal schooling, but Michelangelo preferred copying paintings in churches. He later befriended arts and studied with some of the great painter and sculptors of his time. But he thought that he could learn more by copying the masters.

In museums around the world, you can see artists creating copies paintings. In Louvre in Paris, you can see a stream of artists copying their great paintings. Copying masterpieces has been a cornerstone of traditional art education for a long time. In fact, one art course you can take at The New York Academy of Art in New York City, NY, USA consists of students walking a few blocks to The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) and copying paintings. That is the course!

I have done copies of paintings at MMA New York City of oil paintings by Theodore Gericault (French Romantic Painter, 1791-1824) and Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish Baroque Era Painter, 1599 – 1660).

Artists at MMA who want to make copies make a request to MMA’s Education Department. The Museum allows artists to get exclusive use for a month to one room or gallery in the museum to do a copy of a specific painting. The public still has access, but only one artist is allowed to copy in that gallery. I highly recommend your doing the same.

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The Method and Formulas of the Mische Technique By Brigid Marlin

About Brigid:

Brigid MarlinBrigid Marlin was born in Washington, D.C., studied at the National College of Art, Dublin, the Centre d’Art Sacre, and the Atelier André L’Hote, Paris, the Beaux-arts, Montreal, and the Arts Students League of New York. Later she went to Vienna to learn the ‘Mische’ technique, a process of painting which was a carefully guarded secret of the Flemish and Italian Renaissance painters, and revived after painstaking research by Ernst Fuchs.

Returning to England, she founded the “Inscape” group of painters to continue the exploration and research into techniques of painting; and later the world between painters, sculptors, print-makers and jewelers. She teaches painting at West Herts. College and in London.

In 1982 she was resident artist at the Dorland Mountain Colony and in 1985 she was resident artist and painting teacher at the Carl Rogers Center for the Study of the Person, at the University of California.

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Colored Pencil Tutorial

Colored Pencil Tutorial

I give a brief description of Lyra, Prismacolor, Crayola, and Prismacolor Watercolor pencils. See my blog for more art related activities.http://harmonyartmom.blogsp…

Using Colored Pencils with Mineral Spirits

Using Colored Pencils with Mineral Spirits

Learn how to use colored pencils with odorless mineral spirits.

Color Pencil Tips

Color Pencil Tips

Tips on how to use color pencils…

Blending Colored Pencil 2

Blending Colored Pencil 2

Another technique for drawing hair on animals

Blending Colored Pencil

Blending Colored Pencil

Technique I use to blend colored pencil..

Colored Pencil Workshop With Gary Greene

Colored Pencil Workshop With Gary Greene

From ArtistsNetwork.TV: Experience immediate success creating realistic colored pencil paintings with Gary Greene.

Acrylic Painting Tutorial: What Paints to Buy

Acrylic Painting Tutorial: What Paints to Buy

This introduction to acrylic painting will help you decide what paints you need to get started.

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