LEARN HOW TO DRAW
You will be amazed at how much learning how to draw will help improve your oil paintings. In fact, years ago art students were not permitted to paint until they learned the fundamentals of drawing. Drawing gets you more in touch with value, line and form without the distraction of color. Find [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Top 10 Tips for Improving your Oil Painting
Posted in Oil Painting Lessons & Tips, tagged how to paint in oils, learn oil painting, oil painting, oil painting lessons, oil painting techniques, oil painting tips on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Beginners Guide to Acrylic Painting By Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
Posted in Acrylic Painting Lessons & Tips, tagged acrylic painting, acrylic painting lessons, acrylic painting techniques, acrylic painting tips, art lesson, learn acrylic painting on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Introduction
To cover all the techniques available to an acrylic painter in a short article would be next to impossible, but I can cover how to get yourself started, what tools you need, and [...]
Step by Step Oil Painting Tutorial by Dan Schultz
Posted in Landscape & Plein Air, tagged art instruction, art lesson, landscape painting techniques, landscape painting tutorial, oil painting, oil painting lesson, oil painting techniques, oil painting tutorial on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Step 1: Prepare to Paint
For this 18″ x 24″ studio painting I used Claessens double-oil-primed linen canvas, #15 (my usual painting surface), mounted on 1/2″ Gator Board. I applied an initial wash to the canvas with a color that I hoped would end up being pretty close to my final color for the creek [...]
Watercolor Painting Techniques
Posted in Watercolor Lessons, Tips & Techniques, tagged Articles & Tips, free watercolor instruction, free watercolor lessons, watercolor, watercolor lesson, Watercolor Painting Lessons, watercolor painting techniqes, watercolor techniques, watercolor tips on June 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Watercolor painting is a very exciting medium. It’s easy to get started. All you really need is some paint, a few brushes, some water and paper and you are good to go. It is one of the most convenient painting mediums in existence to day. It is no wonder why it is such a popular [...]
Introduction to Pastel Drawing & Painting Mediums
Posted in Drawing Lessons & Tips, Pastels, tagged drawing with pastels, how are pastels made, How to Draw with Pastels, how to paint with pastels, pastel drawing, pastel drawing instruction, pastel painting, pastel supplies on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pastels are one of the easiest mediums to work with and therefore are a very popular choice amongst artists. Pastels combine the immediacy of a drawing medium while at the same time provide the artist with a color rich, paint like environment. With Pastel drawing, there is no need to prepare your drawing surface, as [...]
