Acrylic Painting Tutorials
Take your Levitan grayscale study to the next level by adding simplified color. Learn how to apply color to masses without breaking up your structure - essential skill for landscape painting.
Acrylic Painting Tutorials
Study Isaac Levitan's landscape paintings to learn how masters simplified complex scenes into clear, readable masses. This analysis reveals the techniques behind dramatic, atmospheric landscapes.
Acrylic Painting Tutorials
Avoid the most common landscape painting mistake: breaking up your simplified masses with too many details. Learn how to add variation while maintaining unity in your compositions.
Acrylic Painting Tutorials
Discover how subtle color gradations and variations bring life, depth, and atmosphere to your acrylic landscape paintings while keeping your design simple.
Acrylic Painting Tutorials
Add simplified local color to your landscape masses. Learn to mix and apply flat colors to each group before adding gradations and details in this fundamental acrylic painting lesson.
Acrylic Painting Tutorials
Take your landscape masses to the next level by adding light and shadow. Learn how light can join or separate shapes, and make creative decisions that improve your paintings.
Acrylic Painting Tutorials
Master the fundamental skill of seeing landscapes as abstract masses. Learn the 6-7 group rule and color-coding technique to simplify complex scenes before you paint.
Drawing Tutorials
Here are my results from the same assignment. Same time limits, same constraints. Watch my complete process including mistakes, multiple attempts, and exploration across all 4 poses.
Drawing Tutorials
Time to practice. Four poses, four minutes each. This isn't about finished drawings - focus on structure, tubes, gesture, and process. Repetition builds skill.
Drawing Tutorials
You don't always start with the torso. Sometimes the head comes first. Learn a different entry point for figure drawing that locks in head position before building the rest of the body.
Drawing Tutorials
This isn't just about technique. It's about feeling what the model feels. Learn to draw with empathy, using contra angles between shoulders and pelvis, and focusing on gesture before details.
Drawing Tutorials
Time to apply everything you've learned. Here's a complete back pose demonstration from start to finish, using vertical reference, longest sustained curve, pinch and stretch, and tube construction.