As with any drawing, the beginning of a painting is the most important step. Successful starts lead to good finishes. In the next few paragraphs I’ll explain what I do to start a painting off on the right foot.
Year: 2010
In today’s video, Robbie Laird demonstrates how to achieve repetitive line and texture in a watercolor painting, using just a few easy-to-find scraping tools. As you’ll see
Monday in Video Tutorials - Tomorrow, watercolor painter Robbie Laird will be demonstrating a few different “scraping” techniques for artists who want to add more texture to their paintings - no special tools required
Like any other art process, figure drawing is a fluid activity and impossible to pin down with exact rules—but if your goal is to create a more convincing life drawing, then these next few ideas will certainly help.
SEO is overrated! At least, that’s what I used to think, until I saw with my own eyes how I sold some of my art because of search engine optimization. Here is one example of how SEO worked for me
When it comes to technique, Brian Cody is primarily a traditional watercolor artist. His subject matter and quirky compositions, however, take him a little farther off the beaten path.
In today’s article I’ll explain how to set up your Twitter account, how to automate your blog posts to show up in your Twitter stream, and how to place your Twitter stream on the sidebar of your art blog.
Most paintings (especially portraits and figurative paintings) benefit from a good preliminary drawing in charcoal or graphite. Today we’d like to show you how to create a different type of drawing using the "rub-out" method.
Monday in Video Tutorials – Tomorrow, Pat Weaver will be demonstrating how to create a preliminary watercolor sketch by rubbing...
Occasionally a painting needs something MORE to take it to the next level. The composition is ideal, the values are correct, yet the finished artwork just doesn’t sing. Often, this has to do with color intensity
Lucrecer Braxton has kept a written journal since she was ten years old. Six years ago she fell in love with the idea of combining her love of art with her love of writing - and thus began a wonderful journey into the world of creative art journals.
Samantha Liddell’s gorgeous photography has one purpose: to be an escape from the moments of despair that we all face at one time or another. At the age of 14 Samantha’s family made a life-changing move