by Lachri | Sep 20, 2016 | Art product review, Art tips, Colored Pencil, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
Have you wondered what it would be like to work in colored pencil on black paper? In this video, I’m reviewing the Canson Mi-teintes in black. We will look at the pros and cons to working on colored paper. I’m using Caran d’Ache Luminance with some...
by Lachri | Sep 13, 2016 | Art product review, Art tips, Colored Pencil, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
Trouble getting white lines and details in your colored pencil work? I’m going to show you my favorite way to get those highlights, whiskers and hair lines and all the little white bits that are so hard to get in colored pencil! Both the Touch up Texture...
by Lachri | Aug 23, 2016 | Art product review
In this month’s Smart Art Box I got to try out a Sgraffito Oil Pastel! In this month’s box I got: A 24 piece set of Art Alternatives Oil Pastels Higgins Black Magic Waterproof India Ink 2 8×8″ and one 5×5″ Ampersand Clayboards A Royal...
by Lachri | Jul 26, 2016 | Art product review, Art tips, Oil Painting
This month’s smart art box had very unexpected results for me! The type of oil paint used was one I don’t like…at all. It is a fairly inexpensive “starter” type oil paint that simply does not work for the techniques I generally use...
by Lachri | Jul 5, 2016 | Art product review, Art tips, Vlogs
One of my favorite ways of keeping my acrylic paintings clean from line drawings as I work is to use tracing and transfer paper. You can choose to freehand or trace your subject onto the tracing paper, that part is up to you. With acrylic paintings, because that paint...
by Lachri | Jun 21, 2016 | Art product review
This was one of the most fun smart art boxes yet!! This month we were experimenting with Indian Block Painting. If you are unfamiliar with the Smart Art Box, it is a monthly subscription box where you get a new box sent to you each month full of full sized...
