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 Paint a Cactus with Acrylics
I found a really interesting video tutorial today from a very talented artist by the name of Rudy Kistler. This is a still life painting lesson on how to paint a cactus, a subject that you really don’t see that often. This tutorial is broken down into 10 different steps for your convenience making it easy […]
Blick Presents: Prismacolor Pencils – Verithin, Art Stix and Colored Pencils
Prismacolor is a popular brand of professional artist supplies offering a variety of products including colored pencils, markers, pastels, charcoal and graphite. In this post, the folks over at Dick Blick will be discussing the popular colored pencil products that Prismacolor offers: Colored Pencils, Verithin and Art Stix. The Art Stix are available in 48 […]
Charcoal Drawing Tutorial Step by Step by Dan Schultz
Enjoy this free step by step charcoal drawing tutorial by artist Dan Scultz. Step by Step Charcoal Drawing Tutorial For this drawing I used vine charcoal and compressed charcoal on Strathmore 400 series 80 lb. drawing paper. Step 1: I decided to start this drawing by toning the sky area with vine charcoal and a […]
Still Life Painting Demo in Oils
About Brian Simons Being a self-taught artist, I have derived much of my inspiration from the “Group of Seven”, the French Impressionists and the Writings of Baha’u’lla’h (Bahá’í Faith). My family and I moved to Vancouver Island from Alberta, where I first began to paint approx. 25 years ago. Prior to that time, I focused […]
How to Sketch a Horse Step by Step
About Sandy Sandy Since 1996, Sandy Sandy has been a professional fine artist and has devoted her career to painting full time. After a divorce, she left behind a thriving advertising, illustration and sign company which she owned and operated for seventeen years. Sandy currently works in her spacious art studio from her NJ Pine […]
Wildlife Painting Techniques – Tiger Eyes Oil Painting Demo
About Jason Morgan My love of animals has been there for as long as I can remember, along with my desire to draw and paint, so looking back it now seems inevitable that I would become a Professional wildlife artist I strive to paint wildlife as accurately as I can, so where possible I like […]
Old Master Oil Painting Techniques – A Demo by Brian MacNeil
About Brian MacNeil Brian MacNeil is an artist of great talent and imagination and is one of the new generation of Realist painters that are the new avant-garde in the art world. Brian studied at the Angel Academy of Art, Florence, from 2004 to 2008 and showed himself to be an extremely gifted student, understanding, […]
Blick Presents – Winsor & Newton Artist’s Watercolor
Winsor & Newton Artist’s Watercolors have been around since 1832 and since that time they have been producing some of the finest watercolor paint known to man. Winsor & Newton currently offers 96 beautiful colors in their line and a lot of these are single pigment colors, and with single pigment colors, you get brighter […]
Chinese Flower Painting Demonstration – How to Paint Chrysanthemums with Watercolor
About Lian Zhen Lian Quan Zhen is a popular watercolor and Chinese painting artist and teacher in the US and abroad. He is one of the most popular authors of North Light Books that has published three of his books as shown bellow. Lian started sketching and painting in his childhood and continue as hobby […]