Artist's Network University has a new course starting today. Drawing for the Absolute Beginner will run through March 13th, and there are 11 seats left! You'll also receive a $5 coupon to northlightshop.com if you use this link to register.
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Painting Realistic Landscapes in Pastel: Skies with Liz Haywood-Sullivan
Follow along with Liz to paint a colorful, cloud-filled sky from start to finish–learn painting techniques for contrasts, lost and found edges, color, value, atmospheric perspective and more, so you can create your own beautiful sky paintings.
Any creative who’s trying to depict reality—whether an author, sculptor or painter—must try to master the art of illusion. One of the most useful tools an artist can use to produce this magic is the manipulation of edges. The dictionary definition of “edge” is the line where an object or area begins or ends: a border. In the framework of a painting, the governing factors in determining how an edge should be handled are: the character of the object or area, the degree of value and color contrast that make up its surroundings, its overall importance and its placement within the composition.
Painting Watercolor Flowers That Glow, an encore presentation of North Light artist Jan Kunz's best-selling book, shares simple step-by-step demonstrations for capturing that celebrated "glow" in watercolor. Kunz explains how composition, col...
Drawing our pets is one of the many ways we express love for our furry friends. In this free step-by-step exercise, Grant Fuller shows us how to plot basic proportion from photographs to sketch a simple, realistic drawing of a cat. Check out Grant's la...
This excerpt from Maggie Price's Painting Sunlight and Shadow With Pastels talks about using blacks in paintings.
Using Dark Blacks
The value of black or close-to-black colors in full shadow is usually the darkest value in a painting. Still, addi...
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