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3rd Annual FRAME MEGA SALE - Sunday, March 3rd
1-DAY ONLY! Sunday March 3rd, 10am-4pm Gallery Frames Plein-Air Frames Floater Frames Frame + Canvas Combos No Rain Checks. All frames sold as-is. No invoiced accounts allowed. Due to the sheer...
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Why Drawing is Essential For Painters
You need to be able to draw to paint well. Let's have a quick look at how the brain works… I am not a doctor or a brain specialist, but I will try to describe the brain's functions in terms hopefully...
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10 Things About Painting With Green
Green is the trickiest colour to control. Green is easy to mix! Notice I used the word mix… not control… as I said greens can be hard to control. To make things a little easier, I complied this list...
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10 Things About Painting Shadows
The Shadow Knows... The stronger the light source the darker the cast shadow. Strong Light = Dark Shadow Weak Light = Light Shadow The higher the light source to the object the shorter the shadow....
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10 Things About Painting Values
Value does all the work; Colour gets all the credit. With my apologies to Dr. Gimbel, here is my eye primer…. In the back of the eye there is a beehive of activity. Workers from two camps keep it all...
View ArticleSelf Critique - Asking the right questions about your painting.
Good questions are the key to solving painting problems. Why am I painting this scene? What interests me about it? Does it actually excite me? Does the shape and size of my canvas help or hinder the...
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9 Ways Photos Lie to a Painter
The devil is in the details. 1. Focus People! Focus! The problem with most cameras (especially the one in your iPhone) is that they take pictures with everything in focus. This is not natural. We...
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100 Ways To Practice Golf - ehm - Painting
Thanks for the advice Jack. Jack explains… “Monday thru Friday I practise golf. I take my coach with me and I have him set up routine for me to practice all week. On Saturday I play a full round. I do...
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Classic Colour Scheme
Santa Swint in Vermillion and Viridian Long before Christmas, ancient Celtic people revered evergreen plants, like holly, ivy and mistletoe for their ability to stay green in the darkest of winter...
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10 Things To Know About Painting Skies
by Doug Swinton Value Before Colour In most painting compositions the sky should be the lightest value. In the hundreds of critiques I have done over the years, one common factor repeats itself - The...
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