Last year I put together a couple of articles listing some of the best YouTube art videos for beginning and intermediate artists. One article focused on...
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Hi, I’m Kellie Day, a mixed-media painter, art mentor, and art educator for Golden Paints. It’s important to have quick, easy projects to get you painting...
I don’t consider myself the strongest painter of water. . . but I do create a lot of paintings around the coast, so I need to be able to paint the wet stuff! As I paint, I tend to follow the principle that nothing is completely observed and nothing is completely imagined. This allows me to have the best of both worlds when painting. I...
What is the most difficult thing you had to master in becoming an artist? If you’re anything like me, it was learning to draw from life....
Chrysanthemums are the symbol of the Fall season in Chinese Brush painting. Mums come in a variety of colors from the traditional yellow to orange, red,...
Hey everyone! This tutorial will hopefully help you to draw a realistic eye. If you want a more in-depth video tutorial for this process, just click here to be notified when it’s ready! Recommended Drawing Tools: • General’s Charcoal Pencil 6B • Mechanical Pencil with HB and 4B lead • Tombow Mono Zero Eraser • Posca Paint Pens (White 0.7mm) • Old makeup brushes for...
Birds and bamboo are two very popular subjects in Chinese Brush painting. Follow along with me as I paint a sparrow perched among bamboo branches, using...
Hello, fellow artists! If you’re like me, you probably have your own working methods that you’ve developed over the years. Today I wanted to share four...
I learned so much from the binge watching painting videos on YouTube, that I decided to see what drawing videos I could find. Spoiler Alert! There are some stunning artists working in dry media, too! So today, I’m sharing over 50 of those “how to draw” videos. I’ll start with the videos that apply to all drawing mediums, and then share several videos for specific...
Have you ever lost track of time watching painting tutorials on YouTube? I know I have! And I’ve found some AMAZING painting videos I’d like to...
I remember when I first started trying to learn how to draw. . . it was actually incredibly frustrating. :) As much as I tried to...
Have you ever wanted to paint a night sky, with all its stars and galaxies? Today’s tutorial will show you how! This tutorial tends to be a bit messy, so it is a good idea to prep the space you are working in with a drop cloth. We will be using sponges, so you can also opt to use gloves if you don’t want to...
You’re probably reading this post because you’ve decided you want to learn to paint with oil paints, but aren’t sure where to start. Sure, you’ve browsed...
In my last tutorial we explored painting sunflowers in the Chinese Brush painting style. This time we will be painting Magnolia blossoms on a branch. Required...
Chris is an energetic artist, and an expert in InDesign from his days as a graphic designer. As a thank-you for his help with one of my bookmaking projects, I offered to do his portrait. I took this picture of him against a white backdrop in my studio. Choosing a fair sized canvas, I began by drawing his features first with a charcoal pencil, then...
I recently received the following question from a loyal EmptyEasel reader who is also an oil painter: I have been following your blog on EmptyEasel and...
I have been involved with art ever since I was a child and studied fine art in college. For years I worked mostly in pen and...
I always wished I could draw. I longed to be able to capture on paper what I saw out in the real world. Inspiration would strike and I’d try again. . . only to end up with the same result: a drawing that looked more like the flat, two-dimensional hieroglyphs you’d find on an Egyptian tomb, not anything I’d witnessed in real life. I was...
Sunflowers are very fun to paint in the Chinese Brush painting style. This is a painting style that uses simple brushstrokes to convey the essence of...
Today I am happy to share with you my process of making portraits using colored ballpoint pens on paper. For a drawing like this, I start...
Over the last couple of years I have had paintings in local galleries, and done a number of solo exhibitions, so I am always careful to present my art professionally. But as a struggling artist, I also have to keep costs down—so I often buy frames which are cheap but look good, or buy old ones from charity shops and re-furbish them. Sometimes I start...