Let’s Talk About Red Paint
Walk into an art supply shop, or pop in on an online website and you’ll feel like a kid in a candy store with all the shiny baubles. Regardless of your medium, there’s hundred of paints produced by dozens of …
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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Mike Quon
A Los Angeles native, Mike Quon was greatly influenced by his father, Milton Quon, one of the first Asian-American animators at The Walt Disney Companies and an accomplished watercolorist. After graduating from UCLA, where Mike studied…
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Matting Your Artwork
A great mat can really add a wow factor to your artwork and turn a lackluster painting into a piece that deserves a second look. No matter how good your composition is, how painterly your brush strokes or how harmonious …
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Color Wheel Mixing Guides
If you’ve been dabbling in art with a pencil or pen, it may be intimidating to start using color. Many art students are comfortable drawing, but quickly become mired down when it comes to color creation. Color theory is one …
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Basic Paint Colors – Choosing Your Palette
Whether you’re a watercolorist, oil painter or acrylic artist, you will have the same selection of paint colors for your paint box. Sure, a traditional watercolorist probably won’t have a tube of white prominently displayed in the tabouret, but with …
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Penny Johnson
I love painting flowers. I use my paints to sculpt a flat piece of paper into a three dimensional image. Conveying the curves and contours of flowers and foliage is an ever-changing challenge, as no two petals or leaves are identical…
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Art Scott
My name is Art Scott. I’ve dabbled in the arts my whole life. My mom was the creative type and painted herself. So it’s pretty easy to guess I started out painting with Acrylics in my teens as well. At first I painted all sorts of things, and then found…
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Calligraphy Sets, Nibs & Paper
Calligraphy is an ancient art that developed in Eastern Asian countries and in Rome around 600 BC. This beautiful and expressive form of writing is disciplined, and it uses a structured method of combining lines to create alphabet characters and …
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Add Snow Effects To Your Winter Painting
Acrylic and oil artists can thin their white paint to splatter a canvas and achieve a wintery snowfall. A watercolorist doesn’t have it that easy. If you’re a traditionalist, there is no tube of white paint lurking on your tabouret. …
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Art Contests And Juried Exhibitions
You’ve been taking classes, poring over how-to books and painting your way through seemingly endless canvases or stacks of watercolor paper. Your work has moved from a beginner’s hesitant, washed out attempts to compositions with bold colors, plenty of contrast …
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Pebeo Fragonard Artist’s Oil Colors
Maybe you’ve been hearing glowing reviews on a line of paints. The buttery texture glides effortlessly onto the canvas, and every color is as vivid as an emperor’s jewels. However, oil paints can be rather costly, and the expense to …
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