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Combining Watercolor and Colored Pencil
KATHY KRANTZ FIERAMOSCA demonstrates how artists can bring together gouache, watercolor and colored pencil to create an elegant look. There’s nothing more feminine than beautifully draped fabric and ribbon with its calligraphic movement across the page. In this fabric study, I was drawn to the delicacy of the conical folds and the gentle twists and curls of the ribbon and combined my materials, using gouache, watercolor and colored pencil.
4 Drawing Lessons for Beginners
4 Drawing Exercises That Will Give You a Confidence Boost For close to thirty years, Bert Dodson has shown people how to draw with imagination and creativity. He is the author and illustrator of the best-selling learn-to-draw classic Keys to Drawing as well as the illustrator of over 80 books. Below we share excerpts and popular drawing exercises from his book, Keys to Drawing with Imagination.
500+ Art Workshop Videos Available
ArtistsNetwork.TV is offering 30% off any subscription (a one-time offer for either a one-month or one-annual use) now until January 31st. This is a one-time only chance, so definitely take the opportunity to see what ArtistsNetwork.TV has to offer you! Your subscription will give you unlimited access to more than 500 art video workshops in acrylic, watercolor, pastel, oil, drawing, and more.
Check Out These Secrets for Painting Convincing Water Reflections
Water is one of the most sought-out subjects in paintings. In this mini-tutorial, you’ll learn valuable pointers on painting water reflections.
Cactus Painting Demo in Pastels Brings the Prickles of the West to You
Artist Lori White Brings the Prickly Desert “Bloom” to Life Pastels are an outstanding medium to choose for your next cactus painting. The color punch from pastels really stands out. Pastels let their color shine unobstructed, reflecting every light ray with which the pigment comes in contact. Cactus painting can be challenging because there is so much green to deal with! That becomes even more of an issue if there is other green vegetation in the painting.
Painting Texture | How to Create Realistic Architecture in Your Art
Want to create realistic buildings and architectural details in your paintings? In this simple step-by-step art demonstration, artist Andrew S. Conklin shows how to add realistic architecture in your artwork by painting texture in an art-deco style. Enjoy! Art Architecture | Painting Texture, Step-by-step A brush full of oil paint is a much different tool than an architect’s mechanical pencil.
Why Use the Marabu Art Crayon
Sponsored by Two Demos Using the Marabu Art Crayon Enjoy the buttery-smooth quality of a wax-based medium that has superior blendability? Looking for an art material that is highly pigmented and water-soluble for transparent effects and reductive techniques? If so, the Marabu Art Crayon could be the perfect art product for you. For creative experimentation, this is a dynamic crayon fit for a variety of surfaces and treatments.
Paint Like an Impressionist, Step-by-Step
Artist Maria Marino Brings the Famed Style to Modern Day Whether meeting a person or seeing a place for the first time, impressions are what remain with us. When reflecting on a person or place, I search for a clear picture, but it’s the impression that always seems to surface. To paint like an impressionist, the most important goal is to draw a viewer in from afar and create a painting that lures them in. They move closer and closer and immerse themselves in the intricacies of the work up close.
How to Paint En Plein Air: Beginner Landscape Techniques
Paint En Plein Air | Two Demos You’ll Love Want to paint en plein air like a pro? California landscape painter Frank Serrano is a popular instructor of painting en plein air who shares his knowledge and experience with students and helps them develop a foundation in the fundamentals of painting outdoors. Photo courtesy of Getty Images Now it’s your turn.
Here is How to Create Colorful Underwater Scenes in Pastel
Adventures in Abstraction In her underwater scenes in pastel, Michele Poirier-Mozzone produces a series of work that’s a joyous presentation of bodies in motion. It’s also a feast of dazzling color and light. Her underwater series came about because of a failed adventure in abstract painting. “Shortly after I started using pastel, I felt I needed a new direction,” explains Poirier-Mozzone. So she painted completely abstracted works for a few months without any planning.
Seeing a Painting Subject From Two Points of View
Have more than one great idea for how to approach your next painting? Maybe you want to paint a charming old barn on a hill; but then, you also want to clearly show where this barn is located. Why not do both in the same painting?
Custom Journals are Powerful Artist Tools
First You Have to Decide What You Want Out of Art Journaling I can definitely attest the power of art journaling is in doing it. And that power only intensifies when you create your own custom journals. Whether you are looking to discover something about yourself or understand your art (or yourself as an artist) better, keeping an art journal is a foray into a special place where memory, observation, sketchbook and diary collide. Include an ephemera pocket or envelope in your custom journals.
How to Draw a Landscape
Drawing Landscapes with a Painterly Style Photo by Jelleke Vanooteghem on Unsplash Discover how to draw a landscape with painterly style in this art demo that takes you from rough sketch and initial concept to final artwork. You’ll discover how to “lift out” clouds, substitute trees to get the look you want, and adjust your values by following along with artist-instructor Phil Metzger.
Watercolor Rose Painting Demo from Thai Artist Adisorn Pornsirikarn
Pink Petal Extravaganza Bangkok-based Thai artist Adisorn Pornsirikarn is known for his incredible watercolor flowers. He works on both large and more modest scales to capture his blooms and blossoms. In this watercolor rose demo, he shares a bouquet of pinks. You could say he harvests a riotous garden — from first blush to princess pink — with the stroke of a brush. Adisorn Pornsirikarn’s work is also gorgeously featured in Watercolor Artist magazine.
How to Paint a Wild Sunflower
This is the time of year where the earth breaks away to reveal fresh blooms. One such flower, the wild sunflower, offers beauty from top to bottom, bolstering vibrant yellow petals and lively green leaves. Below, Mario Robinson shows how a combination of watercolors and a textured background can breathe new life into the already brimming wild sunflower.
How to Add Quick Pops of Color to Your Art
Artist Ward Jene Stroud first saw Brusho in action while attending a bimonthly demonstration at the Oregon Society of Artists. The presenter owned a small local art store and had just returned from a big art supply trade show filled with new art innovations and products — one of which was Brusho. “I’ll never forget the moment I saw the total color-pocalypse [the presenter] created when he sprinkled some little crystals onto wet paper,” recalls Stroud.
Create a Collage Landscape Inspired by Robert Rauschenberg
Taking Risks in Your Art Robert Rauschenberg was an artist who liked to challenge conventional artistic thinking. He used found materials to create collages and assemblages that both astounded and confounded those who saw them. Inspired by his artistic vision and style, we will create a collage landscape with found papers and other materials, along with acrylic paint. Artist Robert Rauschenberg with his art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, March 19, 1977.
Create Masterful Pastel Portraits with These 11 Steps
Creating Masterful Pastel Portraits Great pastel portraits are more than a likeness. They express something beyond superficial appearance, encouraging the viewer to contemplate what it means to be human. This is true of classically trained artist Gwenneth Barth-White’s stunning pastel portraits. They’re skillful, accurate portrayals of her sitters. But even more, they suggest what’s beneath the surface.
6 Ways to Spruce Up Your Landscape Pencil Drawings!
From rocks, mountains and trees, to rushing and still water, you’ll love these achievable landscape pencil drawing lessons from favorite art instructor, Claudia Nice! After a review of art materials, such as drawing paper, a range of pencils and the marks they make, erasers, and more, Claudia takes you through steps to draw landscape elements in this unique drawing tutorial! Drawing Tip 1: Eliminate Potato Rocks! Use sandpaper or even real rocks with crags and fossils to create realistic...
Discover the Power of Working in Monochrome
Pastel Prompt #298: Monochrome It When I say pastel prompt in one color, I really mean discover the power of monochrome! In this simple exercise below, Dawn Emerson shows how working with color on a solo basis can enhance your ability to understand and use value changes in your art. Choose a light, midtone and dark pastel — all of the same color.
An Ombre Origami Art Project Perfect For Your Favorite Valentine
Ombre Origami Valentines, Step-by-Step Valentine’s Day seems to always sneak up on us, doesn’t it? Luckily, we have a super simple Valentine project for you to try that we think you’ll love creating and love passing on. Sweet messages can be inscribed on the origami hearts before you fold up them up and Valentine-themed wrapping paper can work, too, if you wish to forego the dyeing process.
Create an Oil Painting in Just One Sitting by Following This Approach
How to Oil Paint in One Sitting I love saying the phrase “alla prima” but it’s way harder to actually paint that way! Direct or alla prima painting is all about how to oil paint in the moment, in one go. Easy and freeing, right? But I’m a planner by nature! If I didn’t overthink, I don’t know what I’d think about. So I’ve turned my need to deliberate into an asset.
Colored Pencil Portraits | Curing Your Drawings of Chiclet Teeth and More
Plus How to Fix Streaky Skin Tones in Colored Pencil Portraits You know what I’m talking about. The dreaded Chiclet teeth, blights on an otherwise great portrait. You just can’t figure out how to de-cube those chompers and knock off their too-white gleam while you are at it. Even with a keen eye, it can be difficult to troubleshoot and fix your own colored pencil portraits. That’s where we swoop in to save you. All with the thanks to Colored Pencil Portraits by Ann Kullberg.
Drawing Hack: How to Make Pens from Sticks
Drawing DIY: Making Pens from Scratch Artists have made their own pens for as long as they’ve made pen-and-ink drawings. But have you tried making pens from … sticks? This drawing hack is not only a fun, do-it-yourself project, but it is also a great way to save some money on art supplies. Below, artist Margaret Davidson shows us how it’s done in just six simple steps.
Follow These 4 Steps to Achieve Brilliant Color in Pastel
Exotic Splendor with Artist David Napp David Napp’s fills his pastel art with resplendent color and bold mark-making. He expertly captures his real-world adventures, from the bazaars of Marrakesh and the thronged cities of India to the Italian countryside and the cosmopolitan splendors of London and Rome. Sarial Elegance by David Napp, Pastel, 25 cm c 32 cm. Information provided in this post was pulled from an article written by John A. Parks, featured in a past issue of Pastel Journal.
Take a Step Back and Let Your Subconscious Do the Drawing
No Story Concept, No Problem Many times we start with a big idea or story we want to tell in our art, but why not take the opposite approach and start with the drawing — without a developed concept in mind? This way, you leave some part of your piece to chance, and then look at what this drawing could mean for you it unfolds. Let’s give it a try! And there are even more creative, accessible and fun ways of going about drawing as well as painting and mixed media.
Discover the Secret to Painting Realistic Chrome in Watercolor
Want to know the secret to painting realistic chrome?? Hint: It’s less about the metal and more about what’s reflected in it. Below, Kathleen E. Dworak shares her expert insight and even shares a quick step-by-step demonstration so you can master how to paint lifelike chrome in watermedia, too. Enjoy! Ticket to Ride You never know where or when inspiration will strike. Case in point: I took a workshop at which I learned how to paint flowers and crystal.
2015 Art Workshops in Florida with Lee Hammond
It’s that time of year again, when I pack up my stuff and head to Florida. I’ve come to realize that when you divide yourself between two venues, time seems to speed up exponentially. It has come to feel as if I’m always on the road. Before I have the chance to completely unpack at one of the houses, I’m returning the items to the bags for the return trip. Gerbil wheel, anyone? Join me at Rookery Bay in 2015 for art workshops. But, I’m not complaining.
Urban Sketching Demo Capturing Fall in Full Swing with Marc Taro Holmes
Capturing Fall in Full Swing One of our resident artists, Marc Taro Holmes, delivers a great urban sketching demo to us based on his jaunts out and about in Montreal, Canada. Enjoy the gorgeous fall colors of the turning leaves against crisp blue skies. Marc takes you for a fun “tour” and gives us all the insight we need on how to make the scenes we see come alive through watercolor sketching.
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