DRAWING & PAINTING

Tips For Improving Art Skills

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How To Make Oil Paint Dry Faster

3 simple things you can do to make oil paint dry faster.

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How To Paint Skin Tones In Oil

Learn to paint skin color.

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Canvas Ratio Calculator

Find the golden ratio with this golden ratio generator.

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Oil Paint Defects

How to fix paint cissing with one simple step.

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Painting Medium

What is oil painting medium? How to use painting medium.

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Simple Tool To Check Facial Proportions

Enlarge your source photo to the same size as your drawing.

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3 Ways To Tone Gesso On Paper

Use these simple methods to tone your drawing paper.

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Deliberate Practice In Art

Improve your skills with intense focus.

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Life Drawing Near You

How to start a life drawing club.

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Why Am I Unhappy With My Art

How to deal with dissatisfaction in art.

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Complementary Colors In Art

Painting with complementary colors

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Top 7 Materials For Oil Painting

Here's My Top 7 List Of Best Supplies For Oil Painting

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Goal Setting For Artists

Don't burn your brushes, do these 15 things instead

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Use This Drawing Checklist

Checklist for drawing facial proportions.

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How To Gesso Paper

Gesso paper for drawing. Learn how to apply gesso to paper..

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Paint Realistic Portraits In Oil

Focus on these 3 things to paint realistic faces.

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Art Style - What's My Artistic Style?

How to develop your art style.

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Drawing Realistic

A simple guide for drawing realistic.

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Build Daily Drawing Habits

Coffee shop drawing, autotelic habits you look forward to.

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Watercolor For Beginners

Watercolor for beginners - learn watercolor painting with this simple guide.

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Goal Setting For Artists

How to overcome procrastination and remove creative blocks.

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How To Paint Grisaille

Here's how to paint a grisaille underpainting.

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How To See Like An Artist

Use this simple eye training technique.

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Art Studio Design Ideas

Designing flow trigger art studio environment.

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Charcoal Drawing

Create charcoal drawings and charcoal drawing portraits.

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Improve Art Skills Like A Prodigy

Here are 3 things you need to know.

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Quiet Eye For Artists

Use this simple eye training technique.

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3 Things You Need To Paint Realistic

Build these 3 art skills if you want your work to look real.

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Oil Painting How To Clean Brushes

How to clean oil painting brushes in 3 easy steps.

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The Color Wheel In Art

What is a color wheel & how to use it.

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Microlearning In Art

Break major art skills into small chunks.

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Draw Face Proportions

Here are 7 facial drawing proportions to know if you want to draw faces.

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Fat Over Lean In Oil Painting

The fat over lean painting technique explained.

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Oiling Out A Painting

Restore dull oil paint colors with 1 simple step.

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Watercolor vs Oil Painting

Learning watercolor vs oil painting. Here are the similarities & differences explained.

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Oil Painting For The Beginner

Basics for the oil paint beginner.

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Fundamentals Art

The rules in art, as I know them.

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Hanging Artwork

How to hang multiple pictures at the same height.

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Flower Paintings Oil

Nature's beauty depicted in oil.

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Elements & Principles In Art

The elements and principles in art, as I know them.