Free Painting Demos
Using Warm and Cool Colors in an Abstract Landscape PaintingLevel -
Uniting gestural abstraction and calligraphic mark making, Frank Satogata celebrates nature’s beautiful juxtapositions. Here, he demonstrates using warm and cool alterations in one of his abstract landscape paintings, featured in the June 2012 issue of The Artist’s Magazine. 1. Looking … View
Paint Light Skin Tones With Carrie Stuart ParksLevel - Intermediate
Forensic artists Carrie Stuart Parks and Rick Parks are long-time members of the North Light family, which they joined with their first book, Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces, in 2003. A lot has changed since then. In addition to the … View
Painting a Rainy CityLevel - Intermediate
In the March 2009 issue of The Artist’s Magazine, John Salminen explains the joys and challenges of painting a rainy city. Salminen emphasizes the importance of design. Reflections on a Rainy Day Contrast value, color and clarity to bring out … View
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Recent Articles
The Color Black | Artists’ Pigments for Black Paint
Learn about the various artists’ pigments used to create the color black. Don’t hesitate to paint with black to achieve the richest, darkest values in your paintings. Choose from this list of black paint pigments provided by artist Koo Schadler. … View
Mixed Media Artist Maya Brym | Building Layers for Collage
Using collage techniques to structure paintings layered with acrylic and oil, Maya Brym creates still lifes as spatial experiences that shift between two and three dimensions. The following is an excerpt from the feature article “Natural Synthesis” by Judith Fairly … View
Colored Pencils: Getting Started
There are three types of colored pencils: Wax: Pigments are bound together with wax to create either hard or soft pencil cores (the colored part of a colored pencil). Wax-based pencils provide excellent coverage but are more prone to breakage, … View
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