Recent Posts Tagged With techniques

• Nathan Fowkes

  Posted on Saturday December 20th, 2008 at 04:06 am in artists resources watercolor techniques sketches

  has a day job at DreamWorks working in Photoshop, so he tries to spend as much time as he can outside or at home in the studio sketching with traditional media. He has to projects online, called respectively Land Sketch and Nathan Fowkes Art.Both si...

• James Gurney

  Posted on Friday December 19th, 2008 at 01:43 am in acrylic techniques

  is a master of naturalist - representative painting, but he also does fantastic art for books like Dinotopia (yes, artwork related to the tv series.) His style in the book is photo-realistic at times, always displaying an incredible skill and sure-ha...

• Reference 2.0

  Posted on Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at 12:47 pm in techniques journaling

  If only I weren't so lazy. Getting reference for any illustration or drawing project has never been easier. With your laptop + internet connection you have instant reference for any theme. Plus, if you use a drawing tablet you can integrate reference...

• Painting Demo

  Posted on Monday June 9th, 2008 at 09:51 am in artists watercolor techniques

  Paris breakfasts is one of our favourite blogs, and a visit we have recommended here before. In Paris breakfasts Carol Gillott posts charming watercolours and photos, most of them related to her parisian sojourns. In the post called DIY Painting Demo...

• Youtubers! and watercolors

  Posted on Friday June 6th, 2008 at 03:16 am in techniques

  Youtube is an amazing repository of art-related shorts, for example the delicious Enrique Flores travel journals we commented sometime ago.Do you love sketchbooks, like I do? There are plenty of very interesting Youtube videos showing moleskines, not...

• Making your own watercolor paints

  Posted on Saturday March 15th, 2008 at 05:59 pm in techniques colour

  Carol Gillott, the artist who paints the delicious Paris Breakfasts, claims that she uses paints made by herself. She doesn't give lots of details, except some pigment mentions. I am curious about this — I have made my own acrylics quite often, but...

• Cheap Joe's at YouTube

  Posted on Saturday March 15th, 2008 at 05:44 am in techniques

  If you visit the Youtube page of the art materials retailer, Cheap Joe's, you'll find sample clips of art instructional Videos and DVDs, as well as complete quick art lessons from Joe Miller himself. Full length Videos and DVD's are available From Ch...

• The rehearsal: dry point on cardboard technique

  Posted on Wednesday November 28th, 2007 at 03:59 am in Printing techniques

  This is a new print done with the technique described in a previous post.It's called L'assaig (The Rehearsal)Two states:State II: two plates (ochre / bistre)Size of the print: 23 x 16 cmState I:State II:...

• Dry point prints and a special dry point technique

  Posted on Thursday November 22nd, 2007 at 08:59 am in Printing techniques

  These days I'm working in different print techniques in a workshop with my friend José María (Pep) Alaminos. He's a true master and it's a pleasure to learn and practice with him.Several years ago Pep discovered that cardboard can be treated in the...

• Color mixing secrets revealed

  Posted on Tuesday November 20th, 2007 at 05:21 pm in techniques colour

  A video available from Gamblin Artists Colors, also very well explained online (Navigating Color Space) is a very easy to understand and interesting multi-dimensional approach to color mixing.By using 3D computer animation, Navigating Color Space can...

• Watercolor tutorials at Daniel Smith

  Posted on Friday November 2nd, 2007 at 07:38 am in watercolor techniques

  Daniel Smith is a paint manufacturer and art supplies retailer, based in Seattle, that has earned a reputation for high-quality products (sold under their own home brand name), especially with their excellent watercolors. Visiting their direct-order...

• Making colour wheels in watercolour

  Posted on Tuesday October 30th, 2007 at 03:41 pm in watercolor techniques colour

  Getting to know your paints is an important step towards good results in your painting. Colour wheels are a good tool to locate pigments around their hue / saturation space. Then you can decide more easily about which colours you might use in te...

• Experiments in colour

  Posted on Wednesday June 27th, 2007 at 12:16 am in techniques colour

  Trying different colour combinations for a particular painting, illustration or design is a very appealing part of the creative process.However, doing it with traditional media needs a lot of time. You need to prepare or choose new colours, blend new...