Latest Art Tutorials
Quang Ho: Learn How to Paint with Oils
This video demonstrates some collective skills acquired over the years by artist and teacher Quang Ho. The video touches on three or four different areas surrounding the use of brushes, tones and highlighting and the use of the oils on the canvas. Ho talks through each practice and relays what he is doing back to[...]
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Wet On Wet Oil Paints Technique To Create Foliage
This lesson focuses on a few techniques where you can use a palette knife to achieve some very interesting shapes and textures which can be plied to create an array of foliages for your oil painting. Traditionally a 1 inch or 2 inch brush would be used to stipple the oil paint onto the canvas to[...]
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Jan Blencowe: How To Mix Natural Greens For Your Landscape Oil Paintng
Jan Blencowe is a professional landscape painter and delivers this fine demonstration on how to blend natural greens within a landscape painting using Chroma Interactive Acrylics. It is always impossible to find a green direct from the tube which can be used directly in your landscape paintings, this is because they are not natural greens due[...]
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Chris Saper: Portrait Tips For Oils
In this video tutorial Chris Saper talks of the amount of natural and artificial light which has impacted on her portrait. She tells of how it's important to notice the warm tones and ambient colors to help justify your renderings within the painting. Her use of the exact same pigment from the background is used[...]
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Darrell Crow: Painting Shoreline Reflections With Detailing (Pt 9/19 How To Paint Water Series)
Very similar to Pt 8/19 except this time Crow allows the artist to have a go at painting gentle ripples at the base of the shoreline as well as adding more detailing to the actual river bank. The palette knife is again used alongside his beloved 'fan brush' which Crow also decides to add a[...]
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Jack Vettriano: Video Slideshow Of His Best Works
This video is a still frame slideshow featuring some of Jack Vettriano's best paintings. Born in Fife, Scotland in 1951, Jack Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer. For his twenty-first birthday, a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and, from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching[...]
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Jerry Yarnell: How To Paint Rain In Oil Paints
Have you ever wondered how to paint rain in oil paints? This nice compact short art tutorial shows how to give the impression of realistic rain by engaging in a few basic hints and tips. Jerry Yarnell has a scene featuring horses and cattlemen already pre painted in oil paints on canvas before the video begins.[...]
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Dick Ensing: Applying Your Signature In Oil Paints
This instructional video features Tennessee based artist Dick Ensing showing you how to finish off your oil painting with the right signature. He discusses the favourite colors like cadmium red used by oils artists and how to apply it by mixing in a little bit of turpentine so its not too thick and blotchy. Finish[...]
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Bob Ross: Paint Fluffy Clouds
In this video, artistic TV giant Bob Ross, shows the viewer how to capture the essence of a cloud. Whilst Ross is an expert in his field, the approach he adopts is easy to follow and his techniques allow the aspiring artist to paint like him in seemingly no time at all. A very worthwhile[...]
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Amy Pearce: How To Paint Aspen Trees
Here you will learn in a step by step fashion how to paint aspen trees on to canvas using acrylic paint. Artist Pearce begins the painting by applying a few large horizontal blends with a 4 inch brush to set the mood for the upcoming trees. Then using a natural sponge she dabs reds, oranges[...]
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John G Heinrichs: Learn How To Paint Mountains In Oil Paints
Paint like a pro in oils with John Heinrich
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Wilson Bickford: Oils Lesson – Painting A Sunset Pt 2
This is the concluding part of the two part series of 'painting a sunset' by Wilson Bickford. In this short video tutorial Bickford finalises his painting by adding the reflections and navigates you through the other processes which will take you through to a finalised painting. He uses a two inch scenery brush to drag[...]
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Dick Ensing: How To Use A Palette Knife For Oil Painting
In this video, Tennessee based artist Dick Ensing takes control of the palette knife and guides the viewer through a step by step process where he takes on light and shade control as well as color syncing. He also shows how there is nothing wrong with combining the brush with the knife to produce his[...]
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Chris Saper: How To Paint In Monochrome For Oil Portraits
This art video tutorial shows Chris Saper demonstrating a few techniques to establish best results when you're taking on a monochrome oil portrait. It goes straight into the action with the safety pin technique which involves dipping the pin into some titanium white oil paint and i then literally slightly dabbed onto both eyes to[...]
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Jos van Riswick: Plum Painting In Oils
Dutch painter Jos van Riswick uses his extremely technical oils skills to paint his daily live object. This is a sped up video of a plum being painted in oils on a small box canvas and the final piece looks so realistic that you could actually eat it!! It's just incredible what some artists can[...]
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Darrell Crow: Mistakes Beginners Make In Painting And How To Avoid (Playlist)
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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