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Oil paint Tutorials
watercolor Tutorials
pencil Drawing Tutorials
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Did you ever wonder how artists can make a flat drawing seem to pop off of the page? Shading is one way to make this happen. Learn how to use drawing pencils to create a value scale of light to dark shades. Then use each shade in your next drawing.
Drawing a Value Scale
for Beginners
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When we think of shading, we usually think of the traditional blending technique, but lines and dots can also be used for shading. Hatching, Cross-hatching, stippling, and scribbling can add texture and detail to a drawing.
Shading Techniques
for Beginners
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Did you ever wonder how artists can make a flat drawing seem to pop off of the page? Shading is one way to make this happen. Learn how to use drawing pencils to create light and dark shades, and how to translate this on an object.
Rendering form
with a value scale
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Watercolor is a fun paint for all ages. Before starting a painting, see what watercolor can do. It can be unforgiving if you overwork an area or if you are not sure what happens when you apply the paint in a certain way. Practicing with the paint will help inform you about how to apply paint with a mix of whimsy and strategy.
Watercolor Application
Techniques
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Have fun with these 4 watercolor techniques: Spattering, salt, plastic wrap, and water spray bottle. Learn how the paint behaves with these effects and apply them to future projects.
Watercolor Textures
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Use light watercolor pigment to outline, and then apply several layers of paint to separate the petals. Take into consideration wet on dry and wet on wet techniques to achieve the effect you want.
How to Paint a
Watercolor Flower
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Draw a basic outline of the strawberry. Then use shades of red to paint. Add purple, blue, or Payne's gray to create shadows.. You can mask out the highlights or leave those spaces unpainted until you are ready to add some lighter values around that area.
How to Paint a
Watercolor Strawberry
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Wax Resist or crayon resist is fun for kids and professionals alike. This video shows you how to use crayons with watercolor and suggests a fun learning activity for sight words for preschool and early elementary aged children. It also shows how masking liquid can be used by adults to preserve highlights in paintings.
Wax Resist or Crayon Resist Watercolor
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If you are new to painting watercolor, you may wonder which type of paper to use. Both types of watercolor paper are fun to work with in my opinion, but I do have a favorite for most of my projects, and that is cold pressed paper. However, hot pressed also has some nice qualities that might work well for illustrations.
Hot Pressed or Cold Pressed Watercolor Paper?
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This video is an overview of the materials I use for oil painting and clean-up.
Art Medium:
Oil Paint
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This video is an overview of some tips for using oil paint, how to store the paint, how to clean brushes, and proper ways to dispose of materials related to oil painting. Hint: Don't pour remnants down the drain. Dispose of them at the dump on days that they collect old paint and chemicals.
Paint Palette & Brush Care
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This video demonstrates how I apply my underpainting for an oil painting of a landscape. An underpainting is the foundational layer of paint to cover up the white on the canvas, and establish values of light and dark. Many artists use one color for their underpainting. I tend to use a different approach that works for me.
Underpainting
Part 1
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This video demonstrates how I apply my underpainting for an oil painting of a landscape. An underpainting is the foundational layer of paint to cover up the white on the canvas, and establish values of light and dark. Many artists use one color for their underpainting. I tend to use a different approach that works for me.
Underpainting
Part 2
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