Explore essential painting techniques for all mediums. Learn composition, color, loose and expressive methods, and more with free tutorials and courses for every level.
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
Here’s a simple, beginner-friendly collage project built from loose paper shapes, easy paint layers, and a playful composition. Perfect for anyone wanting an approachable mixed-media idea.
Painting Techniques
This video describes how to get to know your subjects before you break out the paint. Take time to explore, doodle and sketch you break the ice.
Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques
Finished art can trap you in safe habits. This loose & expressive lesson shows why exploration, doodling, and playful risk-taking lead to stronger, freer painting.
Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques
Loose painting is about mindset, not just technique. Learn how a relaxed grip, quick confident strokes, and the right attitude will free your art from stiffness and perfectionism.
Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques
Most beginners fall into the “coloring book” trap — tracing every edge of their subject. Learn how to avoid this mistake and replace it with loose, expressive lines that add life and energy to your drawings.
Acrylic Painting Tutorials
Loose brushwork isn’t about being sloppy — it’s about expression. Learn how to avoid tightening up too soon and develop confident, expressive strokes.
Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques
Learn the three painting areas (edge, inside, background) and the art of exaggeration so your work stays loose and expressive. Quick garage drills help you push past the lines, then shape back with confident edges and background passes.
Loose & Expressive Painting Techniques
These two simple loose & expressive painting concepts — loosening up shapes and experimenting with edges — will help you paint with more freedom and confidence.
Painting Techniques
Most articles about painting techniques read like art school textbooks - lots of theory, not much real studio experience. After sixteen years of daily painting, I've developed techniques that actually solve problems I encounter in my work, check them out!
Mixed Media Painting Tutorials
A gallery of recent coastal and urban landscapes created by transforming rejected watercolors into layered, expressive mixed media artworks.
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.