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Five lobster boat studies in graphite, charcoal, and purple and blue crayon, exploring hull shapes, cabins, and reflections.

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Lobster Boat Drawing Study

Explore a lobster boat through graphite, charcoal, and crayon in this video drawing lesson about observation, varied marks, and getting to know your subject.

Expressive horse drawing studies with angular black lines and bold blue, pink, green, and yellow crayon marks.

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Horse Drawing Progressions: From Structure to Expressive Marks

Explore horse drawing progressions in this video lesson using graphite, charcoal, and crayon to move from simple structure to expressive marks.

Coca-Cola bottle drawing progressions moving from light graphite studies to expressive charcoal and red colored pencil interpretations.

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Coca-Cola Bottle Drawing Progressions: Learn to Draw Looser

One bottle, several interpretations. Watch how careful graphite studies develop into bold charcoal and red pencil drawings as the pace picks up.

Graphite drawing of a classic Chevy beside simple perspective boxes explaining the car’s construction.

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Classic Chevy Drawing Progressions: From Structure to Loose Marks

Learn the bones, then take some liberties. A 12-minute classic Chevy drawing session moving from graphite construction to colored pencil and bold charcoal.

Coastal reference photograph showing a gray-roofed house with dormer windows overlooking a harbor filled with boats.

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Coastal House Drawing Study: Connecting with Your Subject

One coastal photograph, one interesting house, and no masterpiece required. A relaxed drawing session exploring rooflines, shadows, and possibilities.

Loose mixed media harbor painting with a fishing boat, waterfront buildings, blue water, a yellow foreground pier, and floral collage borders.

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Fixing a Mixed Media Painting Composition: A Harbor Scene

This canvas went from mixing palette to sunflowers to harbor scene. But moving the pier and changing the boat finally made the composition click.

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Mixed Media Landscape Painting from an Old Mixing Palette

This landscape started weeks before I knew I was painting it. Watch me turn a paint-covered canvas and random collage papers into a mixed media experiment.

Mixed media landscape painting using four individually painted sections

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Four Paintings, One Landscape: An Unexpected Discovery

Explore a creative mixed media landscape experiment using four separate paintings to build one composition. Discover the freedom of unexpected results.

Banana painting on canvas created with mixed media

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Sometimes You Just Have to Flip It: A Mixed Media Banana Journey

Discover how a rejected landscape became a loose mixed media banana painting using acrylics, inks, charcoal, and unexpected colors.

Three Tomato Paste Cans created with mixed media

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Nothing Is a Reject: Three Tomato Paste Cans

Turn an old drawing into expressive mixed media art using acrylics, graphite, charcoal, and crayon in this creative journey with three tomato paste cans.

Three Diet Coke Cans created with mixed media

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When Practice Becomes Instinct: Three Diet Coke Cans

Explore how painting progressions build creative confidence through repetition in this expressive mixed media study of three Diet Coke cans.

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When a Painting Starts Controlling You

Discover how a messy mixing palette became expressive mixed media art with three ketchup bottles, and why protecting a painting can limit creativity.