About Karin Karin Wells is an artist of amazing versatility. She graduated with honors from both the New England School of Art and Design, Boston, 1965, and the Butera School of Art, Boston, 1986. Karin has enjoyed a career as an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator and sign painter. She also taught Life Drawing and Painting […]
Palette Knife Seascape Painting Demonstration
About Patricia Elliot Seitz Patricia Elliott Seitz was born in San Diego California, and spent most of her young adulthood living in Southern California. She came from an artistic background of art and music, and always knew that she wanted to be an artist. From age five until she was in her early teens, Seitz […]
Breaking Surf Oil Painting Demo
About Doug Doug Purdon was born in Toronto, Ontario. He is a full-time painter, teacher and writer. He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists and Ontario Society of Artists. He currently lives in Toronto with his wife, the writer Rosemary Aubert. He […]
How to Make Blue from Ivory Black & White
About Karin Karin Wells is an artist of amazing versatility. She graduated with honors from both the New England School of Art and Design, Boston, 1965, and the Butera School of Art, Boston, 1986. Karin has enjoyed a career as an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator and sign painter. She also taught Life Drawing and Painting […]
How to Clean your Oil Painting Brushes
Learning how to clean your oil painting brushes is important, especially if your brushes are expensive and of high quality. You want to protect that investment so that your brushes will last for years to come. There are a variety of methods for removing oil paint from a brush. If you were to ask 5 […]
How to Begin a Landscape Painting in Oils
In this free oil painting video lesson by artist Dick Ensing you will learn a method for starting a landscape painting using oil paint. This is not the only way to start an oil painting, but it is an excellent method and one that every beginner should become familiar with. The artist will be working […]
How to Paint a Portrait in Oil from a Photo
About The Artist Chris Saper has painted commissioned portraits for fifteen years, following a seventeen-year career as a health care executive in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to her painting schedule, she is an active portrait instructor, teaching both portrait painting and business skills. Chris is the author of Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color and […]
How to Paint Water and Sky in Oils
About Jon Friedman Jon R. Friedman was born in 1947 in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Princeton University with Bachelor of Arts Degree and received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Cranbrook Art Academy located in Michigan. Jon R. Friedman paints landscapes, figure paintings, and commissioned portraits. He also creates assemblages and constructions and […]
Painting an Oil Portrait – Video Demonstration
Learn how to paint a portrait in oils with this free step by step video demonstration by Artist Irv Rudley. This is a two part video lesson that is approximately 15 minutes in length. Visit Irv’s YouTube page for more portrait painting demonstrations Visit Irv’s Website Here Part 1 Irv is working from a […]
Blick Presents: Winsor & Newton Liquin Mediums
In the following video demonstration, the folks over at Dick Blick Art Materials discuss the popular oil painting medium from Winsor & Newton called “Liquin”. Liquin is an alkyd based medium that has been formulated for use with oil paints. The Liquin alkyd mediums are made by treating a natural oil like Linseed Oil with […]