by Lachri | Apr 9, 2016 | Acrylic painting, Art tips, Q & A
Question: I am just starting out on my journey to purchase my supplies to start painting with acrylic paints. I have found your suggestions on type of paint & canvases but have not found your recommendation of brand/brands of brushes. Any help would be...
by Lachri | Mar 15, 2016 | Acrylic painting, Art tips, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
The joy of surrealism. We can combine anything in the world! Want to paint a forest but also want to paint a whale? No problem, do them both at the same time! haha. For this week’s tutorial, I’m showing you how I painted this humpback whale swimming...
by Lachri | Feb 24, 2016 | Acrylic painting, Art tips, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
In today’s video, I’m showing you how to paint a simple beach scene with palm trees! I’m using Liquitex basics (amazon affiliate links) http://goo.gl/zbtRfd a round fredrix canvas http://goo.gl/n2TGyB I added two coats of gesso to the canvas then...
by Lachri | Feb 23, 2016 | Acrylic painting, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
I’ve mentioned my hermit crab tank before. I’ve always joked that it was my little piece of Booty Bay from World of Warcraft. Recently I redecorated the tank and decided I needed a new painting to go along with it! While I wasn’t able to find any...
by Lachri | Feb 2, 2016 | Acrylic painting, Art tips, Q & A
Doug Writes: I’m an amateur artist/painter working in acrylic paints. Can you tell me how I can learn to put color/paint down smoothly? When I paint larger areas the paint is very textured from the brush, and the tone/depth uneven. Just trying to paint skies or...
by Lachri | Jan 19, 2016 | Acrylic painting, Art tips, Colored Pencil, Digital paintings, Oil Painting
This seems like it should be obvious right? If something is white…just paint it white! Unfortunately, it’s not quite that easy. White objects, flowers, birds, anything…is not usually going to be straight white. As in almost never. Today I’m...
