by Lachri | Sep 30, 2015 | Art tips, Colored Pencil, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
In this week’s tutorial, I’m sharing some tips on how to draw realistic roses in colored pencil. I’m working on Fabriano Artistico Extra white Hot pressed 140lb watercolor paper. I used Luminance and Polychromos colored pencils along with one Derwent...
by Lachri | Sep 29, 2015 | Acrylic painting, Art tips, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
This week I am demonstrating a tiger that I painted in acrylics using Liquitex Basics on a Fredrix Nature Core Belgian Linen Paint Board. I wanted to have a grungy look for the background and the techniques that I would be using to achieve that worked perfectly on...
by Lachri | Sep 17, 2015 | Art tips, Colored Pencil, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
This week’s free colored pencil drawing tutorial was completed in colored pencil on Fabriano Artistico extra white hot pressed 140lb watercolor paper. I used Luminance and Polychromos colored pencils with one Derwent drawing chinese white pencil as well. Along...
by Lachri | Sep 14, 2015 | Acrylic painting, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
In music, we call it a “cover” when we remake another musicians song. In art we don’t really have a good word for it, so I’m calling this week’s painting demonstration my “cover” of van Gogh’s Almond branch painting....
by Lachri | Sep 7, 2015 | Art product review, Art tips, Inktense, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
After my not so positive review of the Derwent Coloursoft colored pencils I recieved an email from Derwent asking if I would be interested in testing some of their products as they work to improve them. I was quite shocked and impressed to see a company who cared...
by Lachri | Aug 31, 2015 | Art tips, Colored Pencil, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
This week’s tutorial is a leopard and roses drawn with Polychromos and Luminance colored pencil with an airbrushed background. The supplies I used were: Supplies used for this piece: Supplies used: Fabriano Artistico Extra White Hot Pressed 140lb watercolor...
