Full time artists from good ol Virginia specializing in loose, bold acrylic and mixed media paintings.
Acrylic Painting Tutorials
In Savannah I almost skipped a quirky spot called Treylor Park. Taking the risk made it our best meal — and that’s the spirit behind this sunflower acrylic tutorial. Learn positive/negative space, brushwork, and color in a step-by-step video.
Drawing Tutorials
Four core drawing skills to improve your art—and your painting. A Florida parrot once landed on my shoulder; here’s the advice I kept.
Watercolor Painting Tutorials
The work you do today is for tomorrow. These Big Four watercolor habits will help you paint with intention, loosen up, and grow your art over time.
Watercolor Painting Tutorials
Forget the usual broad washes—this watercolor seaside scene with coastal homes uses an unconventional, block-by-block approach. Loose, expressive, and full of fresh surprises.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Paint your flowers in the center. Build the magic around the edges. How I discovered that putting collage around a painting instead of inside it creates instant depth and draws the eye exactly where you want it to go.
Acrylic Painting Tutorials
This is a how-to guide for painting a still life with flowers in acrylics — but with a twist. No music in the studio, just the rhythm of the brush. Loose, expressive, and very much garage-artist style.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
A gallery of recent coastal and urban landscapes created by transforming rejected watercolors into layered, expressive mixed media artworks.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
This tutorial demonstrates how to enhance existing watercolor paintings through mixed media applications. Using pattern elements and selective acrylic additions, you'll learn approaches to rescuing bad art.
Landscape Painting Tutorials
What makes landscape painting expressive isn't technique - it's genuine connection to place and some emotional confidence.
Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques
Expression isn't something you set out to create. You don't wake up and say 'Today I'm going to paint expressively.' Real expression happens naturally when the right conditions are in place - and those conditions have more to do with confidence than technique.
Color Theory for Artists
I used to spend twenty minutes arranging my palette and planning 'harmonious schemes' before ever touching brush to canvas. Then everything changed when I stopped choosing colors and started responding to them.
Watercolor Painting Tutorials
This tutorial demonstrates a wash-dominated approach to coastal landscape painting, emphasizing how to let watercolor's natural properties drive the construction while maintaining compositional control.