Occasionally you need a little help to find inspiration as an artist. Some days you just don’t have the vision or inspiration to paint or draw. You want to create. Your fingers itch with the need to hold a pencil or brush. You stare at your canvas hoping something will miraculously pop into your head. …
Have you ever tried to do a dark painting on a stark white canvas and have become frustrated when the white shows through? Or are your shadows and highlights not quite right and your painting looks a little flat. An underpainting for your acrylic piece may be just what you need to prevent this frustration. …
Are you ready to start your art business but feeling overwhelmed? This post will give you some helpful tips for getting started as a beginning artist. I am an acrylic painter, but these tips work for almost any type of art. This blog post will cover some of the basics of starting an art business …
What is Diamond Painting? People have told me they started painting after first doing some diamond art projects. I had no idea what diamond art was, so I decided to do some research which led me to buying a few kits to try my own diamond painting. Diamond painting doesn’t actually involve painting or, sadly, …
Complementary colors are colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. If you look at a color wheel, the opposite of yellow is purple so purple is the complement to yellow. The same is true for other colors. The opposite or complement of blue is orange and the opposite or complement of red …
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What is Value? Are you confused about exactly what value is and how you would use value in your artwork? Simply put, value is one of the 7 elements of art that defines how light or dark a color is. Lighter values are referred to as tints. Darker values are referred to as shades. This …
