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New Video This Week!How to Paint: The Grisaille Method with Jon deMartin
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Art Lessons with Lee Hammond
The best thing about online and video education is that it’s so easy to follow along. You can pause and rewind over and over again, all while seeing how your favorite artist pulls off what seems so difficult–and they make …
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Quiet and Cool Watercolor Art
Pastel Pointers | Shades of Green, Part 2
Green can be a tough color to handle, but with color temperature finesse, sensitive observation, wise selection, and artistic permission to sometimes tweak reality for the sake of a harmonious outcome, a successful lush painting can be achieved.
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Progression of Heavenly Hues: A Pastel Step-by-Step Demo
In this excerpt from Stan Sperlak’s feature article “Into the Night” from The Artist’s Magazine (June 2013), Sperlak demonstrates how to complete a sunset landscape from start to finish. Scroll down to read this step-by-step demo, and learn how to portray with pastel the ethereal qualities of night.
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Watercolor Painting Techniques from Soon Warren
Soon Warren has three new watercolor painting videos out that you’re going to love! Learn how to paint cherries in a glass bowl, koi fish in a rippling pond, and get great tips and techniques for creating great watercolor paintings. …
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“My heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils” | A Donna Dewberry Art Lesson
Crystal Clear | 3 Masking Tips from Soon Y. Warren
Crystal vases are beautiful to behold–even when they stand empty, gathering and splaying rays of light that dance with a tilt of your head. But they present a unique challenge for the artist: the clear glass and refracted light take …
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Go for the Glow! | Luminescent Acrylic Paints and Tom Bacher
Using luminescent acrylic paints, Tom Bacher paints landscapes and portraits with spectacular lighting effects. He combines different brands of fluorescent and phosphorescent paints to achieve the look he wants for various elements in paintings that change in color and composition over time.
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Painting En Plein Air, Part 2 | Field Sketch Painting
In last week’s blog post, I described the thumbnail/value sketches involved in the first part of a plein air painting process I refer to as “Field Sketch Painting.” Once these sketches are evaluated to see if the composition is worthwhile, it is time to start the pastel painting.
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