About Eric Wilson Eric Wilson has established himself as one of Britain’s leading wildlife artists, a multi-award winner whose paintings are now widely collected throughout the world. His artistic ability was evident from his earliest schooldays; “Eric has an artistic talent way beyond his years” wrote his art teacher in 1967. As a child of […]
Acrylic Portrait Painting Tutorial
Enjoy this free step by step acrylic portrait painting tutorial from artist Christopher Vasil! Using A Limited Palette and A Four Value Underpainting A quick acrylic portrait painting tutorial showing a relatively painless approach to portraits using a limited palette and a four value underpainting. Finished Painting: For the reference I used a free picture […]
Soft Pastel Painting Tutorial Step by Step
About The Artist Carol Santora, PSA, has loved animals of all kinds since she was a child, and remembers always wanting to be an artist. She had numerous well-used Jon Gnagy drawing kits and would copy pictures from magazines and sketch things around her home. Santora (BFA, summa cum laude, Framingham State University) began her […]
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 […]
Watercolor Painting Tutorial – Change Colors for a Different Effect
About Steve Fleming Good art is the result of hard work and dedication. It only happens when the artist finds his or her own story to tell and then learns to do so with his or her own unique language. I am an artist who works in watercolor and acrylic, and I teach both for […]
Acrylic Painting Layering Techniques – Tutorial by Brandi Deziel
About Brandi Brandi Deziel is a self-taught photorealism painter living and working in Toronto. She creates the illusion of a photograph by layering crisp images with soft, blurred backgrounds and foregrounds thus shifting the attention to the focal object and deceiving the eye. Her work is included in private collections world-wide. Visit Brandi’s Website Here […]
Watercolor Portrait Painting Tutorial
Enjoy this free watercolor portrait painting tutorial by artist Sandrine Pelissier! I hope you learn a great deal from this beginner demonstration. Sophie – Watercolor Portrait Painting Tutorial My last watercolor portrait, asking for my friend Sophie to pose, she has nicely done this a few times for me already: I am still thinking about […]
Fantasy Drawing Tutorial by Ed Beard Jr.
In this 5 part video drawing tutorial, Artist Ed Beard Jr. takes you step by step through his process of drawing a fantasy scene from memory using no reference material at all. Ed says this is possible because of his years of studying anatomy and other subjects. To learn more about Ed, to see more […]
Opaque Watercolor Tutorial – Painting a Figure
About Steve Fleming Good art is the result of hard work and dedication. It only happens when the artist finds his or her own story to tell and then learns to do so with his or her own unique language. I am an artist who works in watercolor and acrylic, and I teach both for […]