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Learn to Draw Cartoons Like a Professional Artist with This Fun and User-Friendly Guide!

Sketching with a brush is easy. You just need to follow the 3 simple steps discussed in this page.

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This Art Glossary is a work in progress, where I have gathered drawing and painting terms for your convenience.

What type of canvas should you use when painting with oils? Can you make your own? Can you do oil painting on other surfaces? Find out in this guide.

This is a quick guide to acrylic painting, with links to articles and tips on how to use this versatile medium for wonderful paintings.

This is a quick guide to acrylic painting materials you should get to get you started. I include a discussion on brushes, palette knives, easels, painting boxes, and acrylic paints.

Charcoal and crayon have common elements. You can apply some painting techniques with both media. This article gives you an introduction to artist charcoal and crayons.

Learn to Draw Cartoons Like a Professional Artist with This Fun and User-Friendly Guide!

How do you paint with casein directly on canvas?

How do you use casein painting? Can you use casein to substitute other painting media?

What is casein? How do you paint with casein? Find out this how this old medium resembles the versatile acrylics!

Tips on How to Exhibit Your Paintings. You want to show off your masterpieces after all, don't you? Well, here I canvas some tips and alternatives for you.

Basic Tips for Framing Water Color Paintings

Painting Framing Tips for Raw Wood Frames: Finishing Touches

More Picture Painting Tips for your Paintings and Drawings!

This is a picture framing primer. How should you frame your own paintings? Should you use ready made frames? Should you make your own picture frames?

Watercolor materials and equipment involve more than the pigments and brushes. Check out the list of items you should have to complete your equipment.

Use these simple watercolor painting tips to improve your painting.

Watercolor paper is easy to stretch following the steps on this guide.

Sketch and Study? There is a difference. Click here to see when you should sketch something, and when you have to do a study.

Color Theory Part 2.

Drawing a subject, be it a person or a landscape, has its own method. This section explores the painter's basic approach to this task.

These additional oil painting palette tips and tricks will help you arrange your colours in no time.

How do artists select their palette colors? It depends on the medium chosen, and the artist's taste. This section briefly discusses the factors to take into account.

Stretching your canvas is not difficult. Check out this quick guide to fill you in on how to do it.

Canvas: How to make your own panels for peanuts! It's easy!

Taking care of paintings: Tips to make your paintings last longer (and how to fix them should the worse case scenario happen!)

Glazing and scumbling are methods of enhancing or modifying a painting. Learn more here.

how to varnish your oil paintings.

How to Enlarge and Transfer Your Sketches: A brief guide to transform your sketches into large paintings.

How to paint large paintings

This section shows you how to sketch skies and clouds.

Tips on how to sketch water... as artists do!

How to sketch trees using Henry Gasser's Techniques.

Sketching outdoors tips including: getting the most out of your subject, lighting and shading, and more.

How to sketch atmospheric effects outdoors.

Sketching is easy using a viewfinder. Check out this page to see how it's done.

These are 3 sketching outdoors rules that artist follow: 1. Determine the horizon line, 2. Paint light and shading, and 3. Put in

How to draw and how to paint: Free art resources for art teachers and art students... or anyone else who wants to become an artist. :-)

This is a collection of painting tips and techniques by way of mini-articles.

This is a still life water color study demonstration

Painting easels come in 2 types: studio and outdoor. Which one is the best to buy if you're a beginner? Find out here.

Still life painting backgrounds are as important as the object to be drawn. Here are a few pointers for you to learn to appreciate them.

Erasing charcoal mistakes is easy. I tell you how in this page. I also tell you how to use fixative to protect your charcoal drawings.

These simple pastel figure sketching techniques will show you how to do pastel drawing in 15 minutes or less.

This is a simple list of pastel techniques that will help you make the best out of painting with pastels.

This is a list of pastel drawing materials you should have in your artist kit.