Enjoy this beautiful pastel portrait painting demonstration by artist Jean Hildebrant. Jean Hildebrant paints in oil and pastel mediums. Specializing in portraits and figurative works (see full bio below). Pastel Portrait Painting Demonstration Step 1 I recently was the demo artist for UArt sanded pastel paper at the NAMTA trade show. I started this on […]
Pencil Portrait Tutorial by George Max
About the Artist George Max is a Geologist, Fine Artist and Professional Translator from central Guatemala in Middle America. He was born in 1968 in a small town called of Cobán, 200 km north of Guatemala City. He traveled to the USA (Colorado State) in 1989 to study English under a one year scholarship program. […]
Step by Step Portrait Drawing Lesson in Graphite
About David Te Hi, my name is David Te. I began thinking about art seriously when I was 18 after seeing my sister Faith, who is also an artist, draw a portrait of a person. It immediately inspired me to draw portraits as well. I have had no formal art schooling at all so I […]
Watercolor Portrait Demonstration
About Sandrine Pelissier I grew up in France but have been living in Canada for the last 12 years, I am currently located in North Vancouver and work from a studio on Pemberton Avenue. Watercolor is my medium of choice because of the unique way it allows me to render light. The transparency of this […]
Pastel Painting Demo – Portrait of Ron Hontz
About Faith Graphite Pencil, Charcoal Pencil and Pastels Artist Hello! My name is Faith Te. When I was 16, a great desire to capture nature and the people around me started my passion for drawing. I began to look at drawing not just as a hobby but something which I wanted to do all my […]
Charcoal Portrait Drawing Tutorial
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Egg Tempera Painting Demonstration
About Dennis Harper In addition to working as an artist, Dennis Harper is Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. Formerly Curator of Exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art, Harper served as curatorial advisor for Georgia for the National Museum of Women in the […]