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How To Draw Trees In Reflecting Water For Beginners And Intermediates

Learn how to draw trees reflecting in the water with this excellent online drawing tutorial!

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Pottery Throwing a Simple Pottery Cylinder

Beginner, Featured, Pottery | 31 Oct, 2012 | 11 Comments | 7 mins

This is a video of how to throw a basic cylinder and how to get the clay up from the base into the body of the pot.

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Will Kemp: How To Paint From A Photograph In Acrylics (Playlist)

Acrylics, Beginner, Painting, Playlists | 30 Oct, 2012 | 3 Comments | 37 mins

This is a fantastic tutorial aimed specifically for the beginners. It is fun and easy to listen to and you will learn a whole wealth of knowledge regarding color pigments, tonal ranges (tonal string), hues and saturations. It will really kick start your acrylic painting career! Is in 5 parts and for only 30 mins[...]

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How To Begin A Landscape Painting Using Oils

Beginner, Featured, Intermediate, Oils, Painting | 27 Oct, 2012 | 2 Comments | 14 mins

Learn how to begin a landscape painting in this great educational video!

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William Gelvin: Painting A Wet On Wet Landscape For Beginners (Playlist)

Beginner, Intermediate, Oils, Painting, Playlists | 27 Oct, 2012 | 19 Comments | 58 mins

Ever popular artist William Gelvin introduces beginners and intermediates to join him in the video playlist where he creates a stunning landscape from start to finish. His step by step approach and expert knowledge of oils and the required tools allows for a very successful and easy to learn from video tutorial. Everything is covered[...]

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Beginner’s Watercolor Lesson!

Is learning watercolors your desire? This video tutorial guides you through the very beginner stages of watercolors and teaches you the bleeding techniques necessary to wash and merge a variety of colors. From deep yellows to gorgeous violets and crimsons make any color merge a distinct possibility. With a classical track acting as a calming[...]

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Watercolors For Beginners

Beginner, Intermediate, Painting, Watercolour | 21 Oct, 2012 | 2 Comments | 10 mins

Learn how to paint with watercolors in this video art tutorial. Are you a beginner or completely new to watercolors? If so, then this watercolor demonstration is probably right for you. The artist has his watercolor paints, palette, water jars and cold pressed paper all ready and lined up ready to guide you through in real[...]

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Alwyn Crawshaw: Learning To Paint In Watercolors For Beginners

Beginner, Intermediate, Painting, Watercolour | 18 Oct, 2012 | 1 Comment | 4 mins

Crawshaw expresses his love for watercolors here in this short video tutorial. He goes on to explain how to create a wash and merge the colors together. His popular expression of 'practice practice practice' is ever present and his encouraging tone of voice whilst teaching is hard not to love. Pick up your brushes and[...]

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Alwyn Crawshaw: How To Oil Paint For Beginners (Playlist)

Beginner, Intermediate, Oils, Painting, Playlists | 16 Oct, 2012 | 2 Comments | 14 mins

During part one in this playlist with Alwyn you'll learn all the materials to get started painting with oils. Alwyn then goes on to demonstrate brushwork techniques and color mixing to help you understand how oils work and can be manipulated. He then shows you the process of painting with oils—from creating an 'under painting'[...]

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Art Supplies For Charcoal Drawing Basics

Beginner, Charcoal, Drawing, Intermediate, Pencil | 15 Oct, 2012 | 7 Comments | 3 mins

In this video the artist discusses with you the range of different utensils available on the market which are needed to work at a basic fundamental level for charcoal drawings. He discusses the range and diversity of charcoal pencils and delivers a brief summary on each of them weighing up their pros and cons, for example[...]

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How To Tattoo Tutorial (Full Length) Tribal

Advanced, Beginner, Ink, Intermediate, Tattoo | 14 Oct, 2012 | 102 Comments | 57 mins

For the aspiring apprentice and beginner tattooist, to the curious bystander just wondering how it's all done. This video is a full length 'one-stop' must see. It literally covers the entire procedure, from the steralizing and cleaning prep work, to outlining, right the way through to shading and the eventual tribal tattoo design. You will[...]

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Mark Crilley: Drawing A Landscape In Two Point Perspective

This excellent tutorial from Mark Crilley accurately demonstrates how to draw a two-point perspective landscape in pencil, based on a sci-fi theme, this tutorial will help all those looking to improve their drawing abilities and to gain a better understanding of perspective rules for futuristic and anime style works. Suitable for beginners and advanced artists[...]

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Drawing Realistic Hair

Beginner, Drawing, Intermediate, Pencil | 11 Oct, 2012 | 8 Comments | 8 mins

Armed with a 2H and a B pencil and an eraser, this artist guides you through the process of drawing life-like hair from outline right up to the finished drawing. He adds all the shading and tonal qualities within the outline then works the eraser into the pencil to create suggestions of highlights on hairs.[...]

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Darrell Crow: Mistakes Beginners Make In Painting And How To Avoid (Playlist)

Acrylics, Beginner, Intermediate, Oils, Painting | 02 Oct, 2012 | 24 Comments | 49 mins

This is the first two episodes of Darrell Crow's new weekly running series highlighting the top ten mistakes beginner's make whilst painting in oils and acrylics. Crow has been around for many years so he is all too familiar with which mistakes are most commonly occurring. Make sure you don't fall into the same traps and[...]

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Ralph Papa: Beginner’s Acrylic Painting Techniques – Painting To The Canvas

Acrylics, Beginner, Painting | 28 Sep, 2012 | 22 Comments | 2 mins

Acrylics expert Ralph Papa pulls out the canvas and the paints to show the apiring painter exactly how it's done. In this video tutorial he expresses the importance of starting in the background before moving onto the more detailed foreground. The building of layers and blending of colors is crucial to capturing the mood and[...]

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The ‘Knit Stitch’ For Beginners

Beginner, Intermediate, Textiles | 19 Sep, 2012 | 10 Comments | 4 mins

In this video you can expect to learn just how to create the most common and basic stitch in knitting, the 'knit stitch'. The lady already has 6 stitches made off and shows you how she achieved them, and also how you can develop more from that starting point. Good narration throughout and a concise[...]

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How To Use A Tripod For Beginners

Beginner, Photography | 19 Sep, 2012 | 2 Comments | 2 mins

This is a very quick video of photographer demonstrating how to set up and use a tripod. The video is aimed at beginners so its nice and easy to follow and does exactly as it says on the[...]

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