How to Paint a Nose (Portrait Painting Tips) with Charts for Mixing Colors
Painting a portrait can sometimes feel intimidating when approaching the portrait as a whole… but what if we could break it down a little bit?
May 12, 2021
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Caravaggio Portrait Painting Tutorial of The Musicians
A great way to learn more about painting and improve your skills is to study paintings! I don’t mean just looking at paintings but actually
February 23, 2021
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Watercolor Portrait Painting Tutorial – Painting with Watercolors for Beginners
I love working with watercolor paints and learning more about painting in watercolors. This watercolor portrait tutorial, will help to show how to approach painting
May 15, 2020
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Step by Step Oil Portrait Painting and Master Copy
Learning to oil paint by doing a ‘master copy’ is one of the best ways to learn how to paint. It helps you along in
November 14, 2019
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How to Best Use Warm and Cool Colors in Your Art (and Painting in 2023)
Do colors ever make you feel warmer or cooler? Sure they do! If you step into a room filled with yellows and oranges you are
March 13, 2023
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Painting Skin Tones and the Importance of Color Temperature
I encourage you to study other old master portrait paintings and how color temperature is distributed in the highlight, halftones, reflected light etc. You will
February 11, 2023
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Oil Painting vs Acrylic Painting: What Makes them Different
Acrylic paint was first released around the 1950’s and as it being a fast drying medium it became wildly popular. It uses synthetic resin as
February 3, 2023
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How to Create a Good Figure Ground Relationship in Your Art and Painting
Assess your subject’s surroundings In order to create good figure ground relationships in a painting. It is important to pay attention to where there is
December 8, 2022
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7 Realism Painting Tips to Help You Create More Realistic Paintings
Let’s say you are painting an apple sitting on a table. If you paint the apple with the mindset that you are painting it to
November 17, 2022
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