Below is a wonderful step by step lesson on how to paint a sunset in oils by artist Gina De Gorna (see bio and website link below). Enjoy and happy painting fellow artist! How to Paint a Sunset with Oil Paint How do I do it and how long does it take? How to Paint […]
How to Paint a Tree with Watercolour
About Christine Kane Christine Kane is a pastel and watercolor artist who is inspired by the Midwest landscape and it’s seasons. To find new ideas for her paintings, she hikes in the forest preserves during all seasons. Christine began drawing at an early age. She focused her education on art and has a degree in […]
Landscape Demo Using A Two Value Underpainting
About Christopher Vasil I’m a Delaware based impressionist working in acrylics. I try to make paintings that look precise and at the same time spontaneous. My work has been described as having a “…powerful, primitive, brushstroke laid down in a way that brings gentleness…work [that] can appear powerful and yet gentle at the same time. […]
How to Make Oil Paints Dry Faster
Oil paint is a slow drying medium. It behaves differently than other mediums like water based mediums for instance, as it dries by oxidation and not by evaporation. This slow drying process can be good or problematic, depending on the situation. If you are a patient artist that works at a slow pace and enoys […]
Copper Pots – Watercolour Painting Demonstration
About John Fisher I was born and educated in England, graduating from the Luton School of Arts (now Barnfield College) in 1945. It was my hope to become a graphic artist, but at the end of the Second World War returning service men and women had first crack at the few jobs available, and rightly […]
Karrie on Canvas: Acrylic Painting Demo – “Have Fun with Cats!”
Below is another full episode of the show “Karrie on Canvas” starring artist Karrie Evenson. I am a big fan of this show. I love Karries carefree and colorful approach to painting. Sometimes it is nice to just let go and paint something without much thought or careful planning, especially after a hard day. It […]
Telluride’s Gold, Ingram Falls – Landscape Demo
About Kenn Backhaus Kenn was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin and spent much of his childhood on the family farm near Burnett, Wisconsin. His fondness for nature became the catalyst for his art. Kenn’s parents encouraged his artistic education and following High School, he attended Layton School of Art in Milwaukee,Wisconsin. After graduation from Layton […]
En Plein Air Oil Painting Demo
Below is a wonderful video demonstration created by Paul Taggart. This is a demo done “en plein air”. Its a fairly quick, energetic and sketchy painting, the point of which, is to demonstrate that oil painting does not always have to be a long drawn out process that takes days or even weeks to complete. […]
Watercolor Painting Tutorial Step by Step
About Allan Kirk After training to teach, I taught Art in secondary school for five years before following a career in computing. I moved permanently to France in January 2008 to launch Tarnincolour Painting Holidays. I have also developed a very popular range of Step-by-Step watercolour lessons, which I sell on my website to customers […]
Watercolour Painting Demonstration – Perfectly Pink Rose
About Barbara Fox Barbara has achieved a tremendous following on both the national and international level as a watercolor painter with a vivid and unique style. Her paintings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States, including the Phillips Museum of Art in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; the Millicent Rogers […]