Hi everyone! In November I have a much easier lesson for my students. We're going to paint simple Christmas illustrations. I'm going to show you how to paint different colored berries, twigs of coniferous trees, holly leaves, gingerbreads, gift boxes, cute little birds, Christmas [...]
Hi everyone! In October we’re going to tackle these beautiful dancers, as fuchsias are also called. This lesson is going to be mostly about painting in layers and building the colors and shapes with glazes. We’re going to create dramatic look by taking the [...]
Seagull in the Golden Afternoon, 19,5 x 27,5 cm, 7.7 x 10.8 in Seagull in the Golden Afternoon is slightly more challenging project, but very, very nice and really relaxing. We will try to capture the beautiful afternoon light on the seagull and the [...]
This bougainvillea flower is a great opportunity to practice wet on wet technique. We’ll be using it not only on the flower petals, but also in the background. Yes! Another wet on wet background! :) I’ve prepared outline drawings in a few different sizes, [...]
Negative painting technique is the main focus of this tutorial. We will try to create flower and leaf shapes by painting the spaces around them. We will not focus on realism so much this time, but more on playing with the colors and getting [...]
This tutorial is a good practice of softening technique. We will use wet on wet painting, even some negative painting, but on the petals we’ll have to use softening technique to create tonal transitions from dark to light. It’s a good project for all [...]
In this cheerful project we’ll practice… wet on wet background! :) Yes! But not only of course. We’ll also practice wet on dry technique and blending colors while working wet on dry. I divided this tutorial into 10 parts, 10 days, but it doesn’t [...]
Something for those of you who are more into landscape painting. In this project I’m using acrylic matt medium – but it’s not necessary, you don’t need this. I just wanted to show you how we can use it. I’ve prepared outline drawings in [...]
