by Lachri | Mar 14, 2017 | Art tips, Colored Pencil, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
See how I use the airbrush to create a bokeh background for my colored pencil blue and gold macaw drawing. I’m sharing tips and techniques on blending colored pencil with odorless mineral spirits (OMS) that are going to be helpful for beginners and advanced...
by Lachri | Mar 1, 2017 | Art tips, Oil Painting, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
Part 1: How to paint clouds and water reflections in oil paint Part 2: How to paint grass and trees in oil paint This oil painting tutorial was broken up into two parts. First we are going to look at how to paint realistic looking clouds and water reflections, then...
by Lachri | Mar 1, 2017 | Art tips, Q & A
Michael writes; Hi Lisa, When drawing portraits I try to get my drawing as accurate as I possibly can to the reference photo, but once I’m done with the drawing all I can really notice are the imperfections on my subjects face. For example, most people usually...
by Lachri | Feb 28, 2017 | Art tips
Today’s critique comes from artist Alfio Raciti. You can view more of Alfio’s beautiful work at www.alfioraciti.com. There is so much to love about this piece! The soft and dark background contrasts very nicely with the tigers making them really stand out....
by Lachri | Feb 16, 2017 | Art tips, Q & A
Erin writes: I am getting into graphite pencil drawing and I just ordered my first set of Faber-Castell polychromos…Here’s my question: if your reference picture is a 4×6 photograph but you want to draw it onto a 9×12 piece of paper how do you...
