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 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 5, 2016 | Art tips
Today’s critique comes from Todd Cox. You can view more of his work at http://toddcoxart.com/. Todd has completed this piece in acrylics with the goal of combining realism and impressionism. Wow. Just wow! You have captured not only a beautiful scene, but you...
by Lachri | Dec 29, 2015 | Acrylic painting, Art tips, Oil Painting, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
Today I’m showing you how to paint this barn owl in oil over acrylic paints. You can paint this all in acrylics if you prefer. I’m even going to show you how to use a spray bottle, a hair dryer, and Liquitex basics acrylic paints to create this very unique...
by Lachri | Dec 18, 2015 | Acrylic painting, Art product review, Art tips, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials, Vlogs
This month’s box was a lot of fun for me, I got to try a different type of acrylic paint! This paint one was much better than I had expected for one that isn’t marketed for professionals. It blended quite well for the loose style I was going for in my...
