Painting Tutorials Online

This site is an awesome site for learning to paint portraits. Unike many online tutorial art websites I have found this one goes through step by step over about 30 short streaming Videos how to use oil paint, how to mix oil paint, colour streams, monochromatic streams of colour, supports, brushes, studio set up plus much much more.

Once you have had your fill of basic instruction, the Tutor Matthew Archambault, takes you through wo feature length tutorials, the first is how to paint glass, and the other is a portrait.

If you want to subscribe you can do this by clicking the picture above. You can pay by paypal yearly or monthly.

Happy Painting!!

Par Beach Spring 2012 Digital Art

This painting is the initial stages of a developing art works, the first I have ever tried on a digital canvas. I am using Art Rage Studio Pro as the platform to develop the painting and my newly purchased Bamboo Tablet by Wacom.

I found it difficult at first especially as you have a wealth of settings and tools to choose from when using a digital art platform but after the initial hesitations that one feels with a new medium I settled in. This started off   as a sky experimentation and has developed from there. The initial painting is laid out and I have some manipuation to do, plenty of developing and then finishing touches. I expect I will fiddle for hours and hours to come before this is finished.

Here is the first stage, took me about 3hrs to get this far but hey whose counting?

Digital Oil Paint - Artrage Studio Pro

While my studio is being built this is the only way I can paint as everything else is packed let me know what you think!!!!

UKCPS

I've just signed up for membership to the society, seen as I have enrolled on a Coloured Pencil Certificate Course I thought that a membership would enhance my learning in this medium. I have always admired the beauty of coloured pencil paintings and hope that I can produce some great artwork that shows exactly how gorgeous this medium is

In other news I have just invested in a tin of Derwent Coloursoft 24 pencils and shall be doing some sketch work to see how the pencils produce for me and what effects, textures and colour blends I can get with them.

Bethany is back to normal today, armless, bored but back to her usual self. I just hope this means i can now knuckle down and continue with my schedule that has suffered since her accident.

I am moving in a few weeks time, no definite date yet but I cannot wait to get into my purpose built studio which comes with my new house.

I have some work to do

I am working on developing this picture into a painting in either oil or acrylic

Photo references that I may develop into Paintings

Winsor and Newton Artists Oil Colour Bamboo Box, Art Supplies and Art materials, SAA

Winsor and Newton Artists Oil Colour Bamboo Box, Art Supplies and Art materials, SAA

These are the paints I use in many of my paintings and this is a fantastic set for starting out in oils. Always use the best you can afford, and using artist quality paint as a beginner will increase your confidence with the medium as the vibrancy in artist oils is so much brighter, and you will use less!

Artists Helping Artists: Branding and Growing Your Art Business

I came across this blog today while looking for other blogs with the same keywords as mine. This is just one particular post of many on the site which focus on blog radio talks geared to helping artists. I suggest you take a look because even though it is American based we can all adapt the advise to suit our own countries.

Enjoy :-)

Artists Helping Artists: Branding and Growing Your Art Business: Painting by Leslie Saeta "Branding and Growing Your Art Business" Scheduled Air Date: Thursday, January 19, 9:00 am PST, 12:00 noon EST...

Women are from Venus

This painting was a commissioned piece with a brief that it had to be a Landscape but out of  this world and needed to be pink and purple. I decided to do the work in my usual medium and used Winsor & Newton Artists Oils. I completed this in several stages.

Women are from Venus - Oil on Canvas 22" x 18"