Crafted by Robert | Original Art & Loose Painting

Side-by-side pencil drawings of a cup and saucer, a careful contour drawing on the left and a loose, fast gesture drawing on the right.

How to Draw Loose: A 2-Step Construct & Deconstruct Exercise

Learn how to draw loose with a simple two-step exercise. Draw the same cup tight in 2.5 minutes, then loose in 30 seconds, and see why it changes your painting.

Collage of tomatoes, pea pods, mushrooms, and green vegetables cut from handmade paper on a light gray painted background.

Easy Collage Project for Beginners: Fruits & Veggies

Try this easy collage project for beginners. Cut fruit and veggie shapes from textured paper, glue them down, and paint the background around them.

Mixed media still life of a white kettle and cups made from handmade collage paper, with an orange-brown background and sage green tabletop.

How to Make Handmade Collage Paper From Leftover Paint

Learn how to make handmade collage paper from leftover paint, then use it in a loose mixed media still life with Bristol paper, glue, and gesture drawing.

Loose watercolor coastal landscape with dark pines, a blue harbor with small boats, a house on the left, and green foreground.

Why Your Watercolors Look Stiff (and How to Stop Overworking Them)

Is your watercolor stiff and overworked? Learn why tight drawings cause it, how to paint without pencil lines, and when to stop, with a loose coastal landscape demo.

Loose acrylic still life of yellow and orange flowers in a vase on a round table with a saucer and coffee cup.

How to Layer Acrylic Paint: 3 Layers to a Better Loose Still Life

Learn how to layer acrylic paint in three steps. Start desaturated, build color, then add brushwork, with a loose still life demo using a fan brush.

Loose intuitive watercolor painting of a city street with red dormers, a blue sky, light posts, and small figures.

Intuitive Watercolor Painting: Let the Wash Lead (Loose City Street)

Learn intuitive watercolor painting by letting the wash decide what comes next. Watch a loose city street come together in 9 minutes, no value study needed.

Loose abstract figure painting of a seated person using expressive blue, brown, gray, and pink brushstrokes on white paper.

Loose Figure Painting Demo (Stop Overthinking Your Art)

Learn loose figure painting with watercolor, acrylics, gesture drawing, and expressive brushwork. Discover how structure creates artistic freedom.

Expressive mixed media still life painting of yellow lemon wedges and a kitchen knife against a textured blue background.

Sometimes a Lemon Painting Is Actually Great (Mixed Media Still Life)

Explore mixed media still life painting with lemons, using acrylic ink, watercolor, charcoal, collage paper, and expressive acrylic brushwork.

Acrylic split-primary color wheel with warm and cool yellow, red, and blue and mixed orange, green, and violet.

How to Mix Acrylic Paint Colors With a 6-Color Primary Palette

Learn how to mix acrylic paint colors with just six paints. Use warm and cool primaries to mix secondary and tertiary colors, plus how color bias works.

Watercolor collage landscape with sailboats made from stained paper, with cool blue water reflections and a small red accent.

How to Paint a Watercolor Collage Landscape With Sailboats (Mixed Media)

Learn how to make a watercolor collage landscape with sailboats using stained paper, watercolor, and acrylic highlights. Free mixed media tutorial.

Split-primary watercolor color wheel with warm and cool yellow, red, and blue, plus mixed oranges, greens, and violets.

Watercolor Color Mixing for Beginners: The 6-Color Split-Primary Palette

Learn watercolor color mixing for beginners with just six paints. Mix secondary and tertiary colors using a split-primary palette, plus why mixes turn muddy.

Loose Watercolor Street Scene painting by Robert Joyner

Loose Watercolor Street Scene: My Simple Design & Painting Process

Learn my simple process for painting a loose watercolor street scene: composition, value study, and layered washes, with a free video tutorial.

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