Oil Painting Tips for Beginners

Oil Painting Tips for Beginners

People always think oil painting is the hardest medium to learn. I say it’s the easiest IF you do a few key things! I’m sharing some of those in these 8 oil painting tips! Tip #1 Paper Towels Oil paint doesn’t play nicely with all paper towels. The...
6 Tips for Beginner Charcoal Drawings

6 Tips for Beginner Charcoal Drawings

Charcoal is one of my favorite mediums for beginners to art to start with. It’s fast, it’s forgiving of mistakes, and it helps you to perfect your values! Tip #1 – Paper Type You can use charcoal on most types of paper, but if the paper is too...
10 Tips for Pan Pastels

10 Tips for Pan Pastels

Pan Pastels and colored pencil are a great mixed media combo. I’m sharing 10 tips on how I use them to get the best results! Tip #1 – Paper Choice Use a paper that the pastels will stick well to. My favorite is sanded paper. I use LuxArchival. Unlike ALL...
Color Mixing Painting Tips

Color Mixing Painting Tips

My friend Nick was having some trouble with color mixing. He sent me a video of the problem asking for help. The main issue I see in the video above is that he was using too many colors to try and mix what he wanted. Those colors all got him to the end result he...
Top 10 Tips for Faber-Castell Graphite Aquarelle

Top 10 Tips for Faber-Castell Graphite Aquarelle

Graphite Aquarelle is water-soluble graphite. It’s not like using regular pencils because you’re going to be painting! Tip #1 – Reference Photo These pencils can go even darker than usual graphite when you layer and blend them right! Choose a high...
Using Canvy to make your artwork look even better online!

Using Canvy to make your artwork look even better online!

Canvy is a service that lets you upload your art and save them in various rooms with different frames so that you can show your customers how great your work would look in their homes! Today’s video is sponsored by Canvy Use this link to get two free months of...