Today's Lesson Is About Tinting the Canvas "Darker you want it, the more pressure you use, not the amount of paint on your canvas." Diane Andre Key Points To Consider: Today's lesson is all about color. Magic White is on the canvas. The fingertip test to check your Magic White is important enough that many artists used it. She is using the following … [Read more...]

Save Money and Improve Your Skills Today's Tip Comes from our "Introductory Master Class." We believe, perfect practice, makes perfect! We also know canvas can be expensive and so we don't want to waste it on practicing. Well, it isn't really wasting canvas when we practice painting strokes, but sometimes it seems that way. We've developed an alternative. There are two … [Read more...]

Save Money and Improve Your Skills Today's Tip Comes from our "Introductory Master Class." We believe, perfect practice, makes perfect! We also know canvas can be expensive and so we don't want to waste it on practicing. Well, it isn't really wasting canvas when we practice painting strokes, but sometimes it seems that way. We've developed an alternative. There are two … [Read more...]

How Does Bill Get Depth In His Paintings? Bill was passionate about the beauty in the world. If you have had a chance to watch his biography you will know that he was born into darkness and suffered many atrocities throughout his life. Yet, he was still known in America as the "happy painter." How did that happen? Bill decided to use the darkness in his life to show the … [Read more...]

Creating a Shoreline Buck can paint anything but there is something special that happens when he paints the sea. Watch as he demonstrates how to use light and dark to create an illusion of ocean shoreline. Key Points: Buck's canvas is dry for this demonstration The paint colors he uses are Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Titanium White, and Phthalo Blue, he … [Read more...]

Creating a Shoreline Buck can paint anything but there is something special that happens when he paints the sea. Watch as he demonstrates how to use light and dark to create an illusion of ocean shoreline. Key Points: Buck's canvas is dry for this demonstration The paint colors he uses are Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Titanium White, and Phthalo Blue, he … [Read more...]