Why Every Artist Should Paint Still Lives

Painting a bowl of fruit or a few simple objects might not seem like a big deal, itĀ could be the key...

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Assemble Your Best Travel Watercolor Kit

Watercolor is a great mediumĀ to use while traveling: It has a quick drying time, doesn't require any...

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Glazing Red in an Oil Painting: Hibiscus Flower

Recently I created a painting of a Red Hibiscus using the grisaille underpainting and glazing techni...

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Making Art While on a Family Vacation

Do you dream of a relaxing art vacation full of hours of outdoor sketching, and returning home with ...

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Measuring Techniques for Portrait Drawing

Let's take a look at two different approaches to achieving proportion in a portrait drawing. We'll c...

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Everything You Need to Know About Glazing Oil Paintings

One of the most asked about techniques in oil painting is glazing! Old masters like Vermeer used it ...

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An Explanation of the Fat Over Lean Rule

The concept I found most confusing when I was learning oil painting was how to follow the Fat Over L...

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Underpaintings: Imprimatura and Grisaille Explained

If you're a new painter looking to understand terms related to underpaintings that look like Greek t...

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Tips for Creating an Art Practice

A readerĀ wrote in with a question about how to create aĀ regular time to create. Sara writes:

Any tr...

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How do you draw hands and feet in proportion to the head when life drawing?

A subscriber wrote in asking a question so many of us have encountered when figure drawing: How do y...

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Tips for Translating Color to Value When Drawing

One of the challenges of drawing is to translate color into values. Can you identify the value of a ...

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Learning Realistic Art is Like Learning a New Language

A question came in recently about using abstract shapes and straight lines to plan out realistic dra...

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