Category: Tips & Tutorials

Tips & Tutorials

How to Paint Clouds | Oil Painting Techniques for Beginners

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  • Demonstrate dry brush, soft edge, palette knife technique, and more
  • Soothing art video
  • Medium: Oil paints

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Summary: How to paint white fluffy clouds and a semi-abstract sea with oil paints. Using nylon brushes and a palette knife.

How to paint clouds with oils:

  1. Start with the shadows, notice the shape of the shadow area (darkest dark)
  2. Be loose with your brush strokes
  3. Use at least 3 different values
  4. Using a round brush might be easier, but all brushes work fine.
  5. Soft brushes will help you blend and soften edges (the one I’m using is a nylon brush)
  6. Work wet on wet to create soft fluffy edges.

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Color Theory

Mixing Orange Colors | Color Theory Basics Part-1

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What does Saturated orange mean?
It means that the color I’ve mixed has so much orange and less of the other hues showing.

Depending on the color I want to achieve I’ll either add:

  • White if I want to make it lighter
  • White and yellow if I want to make the orange lighter and push it toward yellow
  • Red if I want to warm it or make it pink-orange, or white and red if I want to be warmer but lighter
  • Blue if I want to dull it (make it grey or brown), or blue and white to make it dull but lighter

My red (Alizarin Crimson) and blue (Phthalo Turquoise) are both dark adding them without white or yellow darkens the color I’m mixing. Check out my limited palette.

A Glimpse Inside The Process, Tips & Tutorials

Painting Pine Trees | Oil Painting Techniques for Landscape

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Tips & Tutorials

5 Free Resources For Professional Artists

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Being a professional artist and building your own art business takes a lot of work. If you are ready to be a professional artist but not sure where to start and what you need, you should visit these websites. I included my favorite guide from each of them but you definitely should explore them and read the other articles they have.

  • Mastering Sunsets by Richard Robinson
    His free PDF is available in English and Espanol. You can also purchase Mastering Sunsets video at this link (Important: I get commission after referred customer order made through this link)

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Tips & Tutorials

How to Display Your Artwork in a Virtual Room

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I was planning on posting this tutorial next month as I am still learning. It is the same way I use to Create a Canvas Mock-up but instead of using the white background, I am using an image I bought from Etsy. You can find the image at this link.

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Before You Start:

Here are the steps:

  • Open the wall/room image in Photoshop.

  • Drag and drop your artwork image on top of the room/wall image.

  • Adjust the size of the artwork image. In this example, I changed the image scale to 50%, don’t forget to select the Maintain aspect ratio. Then click Enter.

  • Select the Move Tool, and place your artwork image where you want it to be.

  • Click on fx and choose Drop Shadow, you can match your settings to the ones I am using if you want.

  • While you are in the same window, add Bevel & Emboss.

  • Save as .png

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