Clyde Aspevig teaches his oil painting approach and technique in his video, ASPEVIG. “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” ― Gustav Mahler Life’s complex. Nothing is as simple as we’d like, and that [...]
This series started as "The 5 Most Inspiring" books for artists, but the list has gone beyond that number now. This is the first in the ongoing series. #1. The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri [...]
How does he do it? Well, sometimes he trades a brush for a squeegee. Learn how from his instructional video, Painting with Intuition. “Loose as ashes,” a friend of mine, Don Oulette used to say. [...]
By Contributing Writer Rob Silverman Convincing likeness, check! Good composition, check! You need not be an award-winning artist, check! We’ve all seen demos by accomplished portrait artists that begin with a perfect drawing, followed by [...]
When America’s first great landscape painter, Thomas Cole, began painting the trees, rivers and mountains of the northeastern U.S. in the 1830s, he was aiming for a union of the sublime and the beautiful (or [...]
On the final day, we learned from none other than Anne Blair Brown, Patricia Guzman, Rick J. Delanty, Joe Gyurcsak, Kevin Macpherson, and more.
Welcome back to your Acrylic Live highlights! On Day 2 this year, we saw more full-length watercolor painting demonstrations with Colette Pitcher, Charlie Easton, Chantel Barber, Carla Bosch, Aimee Erickson, and more, including sessions with our sponsors and more giveaways.
Highlights from Day 1 of Acrylic Live, featuring Jed Dorsey, Tad Retz, Samantha Williams Chaplesky, Patti Mollica, Mike Hernandez, and more!
Highlights from Essential Techniques Day of the Acrylic Live online art conference, hosted by Eric Rhoads, Kelly Kane, and Charlie Easton!
Acrylic artist Brenda Hozjan studied to become a third-degree black belt in Karate. She trained in Canada and finished the final part of her San Dan grading (third degree black belt) in Kyoto, Japan. A lot of [...]
