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Tattooing On Fake Skin

Experimental, Ink, Tattoo | 13 May, 2013 | No Comments | 11 mins

It's not the real thing but fake skin is great for practicing your line work!

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How To Make A Bunny Figurine Using Polymer Clay

Advanced, Clay, Experts, Intermediate, Newly Added | 01 Jan, 2013 | 2 Comments | 19 mins

How to make your very own figurines Here is a simple, but fun way to create some of your favourite characters using moulding clay. Its something that all the family can join in with and if you have children they will love making these cute figures. Please watch as Debbi Allison takes you through all the materials[...]

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Create A Flexible Glass Sculpture

Create some unique glass sculpture art for your own home...Ideal for beginners!

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Carving Flowers Into A Watermelon

Something a little different. Impress your guests with this on your table!

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Darrell Crow: Painting Crashing Waves (Pt 5/19 How To Paint Water Series)

Advanced, Intermediate, Oils, Painting | 30 Oct, 2012 | 19 Comments | 15 mins

Darrell Crow uses a nice wide variety of brushes and techniques to teach in his own unique way how you can paint a beautiful crashing wave within a seascape. He talks about reference lines and to some extent creating a box to draw the wave within. Easy to pick up step by step approach for[...]

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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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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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Claire Watson: How To Dry Brush Basics

Beginner, Intermediate, Oils, Painting | 26 Oct, 2012 | 19 Comments | 14 mins

In this video tutorial you will learn how to dry brush with Claire Watson. The first half of the video describes the variety of brushes used and not forgetting the kitchen roll and the eraser. The paints are Windsor and Newton artisan oils and they are her choice of paints for the dry brushing. She[...]

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Lian Quan Zhen: Using Chinese Techniques For Your Watercolor Technique

Artist Lian Quan Zhen  shows you in this video how to introduce Chinese painting techniques into your watercolors to allow you to loosen up and paint more freely. Armed with only watercolor brushes, paper and paints, Lian explains how to use the materials to bring in the strokes and style of Chinese brush painting. After[...]

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Two handed Artist! Incredible!

Advanced, Drawing, Pencil | 23 Oct, 2012 | 7 Comments | 2 mins

Not only is the final outcome absolutely amazing and pretty much perfect, this was done in one sitting with both left and right hand. I really have nothing else to say other than 'Sheer Class'. If this artist isn't doing bigger things now then somebody needs to contact him asap. This video pays homage to[...]

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“Ideas On Updating Your Walls Using Stencils”

Watch this flower garden room transformation and see how easy it is to do with the Wall Stencil Kits. We have all been there, seen the perfect wallpaper for our childrens bedrooms or for our own bedrooms, but just can't afford the prices. Now there is another way you can create the same effect and have[...]

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Mark Crilley: How To Draw Backgrounds In One Point Perspective

Advanced, Beginner, Drawing, Intermediate, Pencil | 20 Oct, 2012 | 78 Comments | 14 mins

In this video you will learn the basic principles surrounding perspective, in particular 'one point' perspective. What this means is there is a viewpoint which leads to one vanishing point. Crilley describes the understanding behind it in some detail. It would be difficult to draw for a beginner or even as a first attempt but[...]

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Latte’ Art

An exciting and intelligent use of art to perk up your Latte'. This video shows how something as ordinary as making a Latte' can be transformed into art, skilfully using the colors and textures of the ingredients. Narrated throughout and showing designs which appear accomplishable to the experimental, this video really captures the viewer’s imagination and[...]

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Bizarre Art – Cork Murals And Toilet Seat Art!

Welcome to the world of the strange in this art video clip where you are introduced to two three unusual instalments of creative contemporary art. First up is Albanian artist Saimir Strati who composed and created the largest cork mosaic picture in the world to achieve the Guinness world record. The piece is spectacular and took[...]

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Leila Arzani: Rainbow Water Marbling (nails)

Beginner, Experimental, Ink, Intermediate | 07 Oct, 2012 | 73 Comments | 6 mins

This is a video with which Leila Arzani uses a small vessel, I think a mug, and pipettes various color droplets to create a form of rainbow marbling. She uses a stick to guide the flow of pattern within the marbling which she is trying to achieve so that when she has the result she[...]

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Melting Crayons In The Shape Of A Heart

This is a charming little video which anybody can get involved with and shows the creation of a valentine's heart silhouette lined with ultra heat melted colored crayons to produce a rather contemporary design which is incredibly unique. Now what you will need is a glue gun, glue sticks, pre stretched canvas, a heat gun, some black acrylic[...]

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Will Kemp: Mixing Acrylics Basics And Matching To A Color Wheel

Acrylics, Beginner, Intermediate, Painting | 05 Oct, 2012 | 2 Comments | 4 mins

In this art tutorial you will learn how to mix an orange to match a swatch by artist Will Kemp. The first step is to navigate the color wheel and see which colors are closest either side of the orange as they will be the ones you need to create the orange. Its important to know[...]

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