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.
Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques
I used to freeze in front of blank canvases until I discovered something that changed everything: use your canvas as your mixing palette first. By the end of a painting session, you have spontaneous strokes and random colors - the perfect expressive beginning.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Turn a discarded Bristol paper palette into a colorful, playful mixed media cat painting using acrylics and creative brushwork. Beginner-friendly and fun!
Watercolor Painting Tutorials
This tutorial demonstrates a systematic approach to watercolor street scene construction, showing how to build urban environments through strategic wash application and progressive detail development.
Watercolor Painting Tutorials
Tube watercolors pack more punch than pans, but they’ll test your patience if you don’t know the tricks. Here are 9 real-world tips for opening, mixing, and storing them without the frustration.
Watercolor Painting Tutorials
Negative space sounds fancy, but it’s just the area around your subject. Paint the space, and trees, clouds, and buildings appear on their own. Here are 10 ways I use it in watercolor.