Featured Art Articles

Explore a collection of art articles consisting of various art techniques, painting and drawing tutorials, helpful artist resources, master painting breakdowns and how to guides with step by step demonstrations. You will also discover a vast range of art articles that delve into different medium applications such as; oil painting, how to paint with watercolors, acrylic paints, soft pastels, charcoal drawing, pencil drawing, silverpoint and many others!

How To Mix Earth Tone Colors

What are earth tones? Earth tone colors in its narrowest definition means colors that contain some brown. However, more broadly it can be defined as

January 8, 2020 10 Comments

How To Sketch Out A Painting

How to create a painting sketch before painting A painting sketch or underdrawing, is a preliminary drawing you make on your canvas that will help

December 13, 2019 10 Comments

Painting Technique Tips from Velazquez

Velazquez will always be a painters painter. For centuries, artists have been studying his technique and the masterful way he used paint. This post will

December 11, 2019 No Comments

How to Paint a Landscape

Knowing how to paint a landscape can difficult, especially if you have not done it very much! There is never a formula in how to

December 5, 2019 3 Comments

Step by Step Oil Portrait Painting and Master Copy

Oil Portrait Painting and Why Do Master Copies? Learning to oil paint by doing a ‘master copy’ is one of the best ways to learn

November 14, 2019 3 Comments

How to Mix Brown

Simplified version of ‘How to mix Brown’ All the primary colors mixed together make brown! Depending on the ratio of each primary color that you

October 29, 2019 No Comments

How to Start an oil Painting – and Create an Underpainting

Starting a painting can be intimidating. What can be even more intimidating is to start painting for the first time ever. Whether the former or

September 30, 2019 No Comments

5 Rembrandt techniques you can learn from

Rembrandt remains a household name hundreds of years after his death. He surpassed both his teachers in technical ability at a young age and continued

September 26, 2019 4 Comments

Complete Guide On Color and the effect of light

Color is an immense and complex topic and belongs under the larger category of ‘the nature of light’. As color is light. However, I will

September 23, 2019 1 Comment