Landscape Painting Tutorials
What Makes an Expressive Landscape Painting?
What makes landscape painting expressive isn't technique - it's genuine connection to place and some emotional confidence.
Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques
Free tutorials and courses on loose and expressive painting in watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media. Beginners and experienced artists alike can learn to simplify, loosen up, and paint with freedom.
Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques
What Actually Makes Painting Expressive
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.
Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques
Four Studio-Tested Ways to Start Loose, Expressive Paintings
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
Mixed Media Cat Painting Demonstration
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
Painterly Style Watercolor Street Scene
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.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Mixed Media Still Life Project Using Acrylic and Collage
This tutorial demonstrates mixed media still life construction using Bristol paper and strategic collage integration. Beginner friendly mixed media project you can do at home.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Guide to Collaging the Garage Artist Way
A no-rules guide to collaging: make your own papers, rescue “failed” sketches, and build expressive mixed-media layers with techniques that actually work.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
How to Collage Landscapes With Sailboats
Discover easy to use tips for how to create an interesting collage landscape painting with sailboats. Beginner friendly with stunning results.
Watercolor Painting Tutorials
Watercolor Face Studies
Learn systematic watercolor face study techniques. Master progressive build-up methods, strategic color mixing, and character development through selective detail placement.
Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques
How to Paint Loose & Expressive: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide
I chased abstract art, but this site’s real story is loose & expressive painting. In this beginner’s guide, I’ll share how that shift began—and show you simple, lively techniques for watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media.
Acrylic Painting Tutorials
Loose Acrylic Still Life Painting Tutorial
When I paint interiors, it could be seafood dinners, Twinkies, or a glass of milk. This step-by-step acrylic still life keeps it raw and loose—garage style.