How to Fill a Sketchbook In One Month

Blue Lake Scene, 8 1/2" x 11" in Ultramarine Deep Dark Shade Pan Pastel by Robert A. Sloan Because at the end of the month you will be a much better artist. Your drawings and sketches will be more lifelike,...

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Enhancing your Garden or Patio with Mosaic Art

  Mosaic artwork is such a lovely way to enhance anyone’s outside garden or landscape!  The materials needed are easy to find, and within a short period, you too can create something beautiful and long...

Drawing Book Reviews:The Fundamentals Of Drawing Still Life By Barrington Barber

A book review of the Fundamentals of drawing still life by author and artist Barrington Barber.

Animation 101: Part 1 - Building your drawing skills

It's a universal requirement when applying for an animation course: they want to see your drawing. It doesn't have to be the best (always), but an attempt must be made. You don't have to be an artist to...

A Series of Women Artists: Clara Peeters

Clara Peeters was baptized in May of 1594. Her earliest works were primarily still life paintings, flowers, shells, dishes full of food, shellfish, glassware and even the ornate handles of knives. The first...

How to Create Five Minute Art

Freehand drawing is the basic skill that all other art skills grow from, including colored pencil realism. Recently I ran a Quick Draw contest on eBay. Artists, some of whom had been selling beautiful ACEOs...

Daily Painting or Drawing

Nothing improves your art the way practice does. If you draw the same thing a dozen times, you will know that subject the way you know the face of a loved one. Maybe better if you're not a portrait artist. ...

A Series on Woman Artists: Judith Leyster

Judith Leyster was not born to an artist family as her father was a brewer. As a Dutch artist, Leyster did not limit herself to still life painting. As with so many woman artists her work declined upon...

Gothic Still Life Painting

Most of these were pictures painted in London, but some were done in Florianopolis. All are oil on canvas. The style of these paintings is traditional, being derived from the tonal painting of the nineteenth...