Pictorial styles and brush strokes are totally related. Therefore, to think about the types of brushstrokes that we can create in painting, we also have to think about the types…
Throughout history, painters have received their inspiration from the events that occurred in their specific historical moment, from their surroundings, technological developments, new cultures, new ways of life and all…
Do you want to know who has painted a picture and what's the name? Do you have an image and would like to find out more about that painting or…
The varnishes are used to protect the paintings and also to apply to them a matt, semi-matt bright effect. Some varnishes are just the tree's resins that are dissolved with…
The Rule of Thirds consists in dividing the image with two horizontal guides and two vertical guides that generate a division into 9 equal parts. This is a technique of…
Rhythm is a basic visual concept that must be understood to create compositions drawing and painting. Modern Dance, 2008, by Fred Hatt A drawing great rhythm where we can to…
The encaustic technique has the beeswax as binder. The name of encaustic (enkaustikos = engrave with fire) it comes from the ancient Greece, but the Egyptian civilization also used this…
Discover how to do your own pastel bars paints The pastel paints are bars mades of pigments colors with a little of binder that allows us to make the bar…
To use a grid lets you copy images accurately maintaining its exact proportions. With this technique you learn to see the dimensions of shapes and we succeeds our drawing thanks…
The recipe for making your own watercolors paintings is easy and inexpensive. Only a gum o fruit tree resin and pigments are required. homemade watercolors paintS recipe The binder we…
To start painting with watercolors, first, we must learn how to get ready the basic materials that we’ll need, and then, I will show you how to stretch the watercolor…
The fundamental rules to paint with the technique of the Watercolor are some rules and logical ideas to make that painting with watercolors become easier and more controllable and comfortable…
Watercolor has the following advantages: The works painted with watercolor are very alive, they express life.It is one of the best techniques for the representation of water, liquids, atmospheres and…
This theme is included in the art techniques because it affects the shapes, the composition and configuration of the work. The artist must decide between using the representation and the…
Today we have a lot of applications to paint with the computer. Brushes, pencils, airbrushes, paint buckets and feathers have been developed to make drawings and paintings as if we…
I present in this post two videos about the Speed painting, with the use of digital brushes. Nico de Mattia and Stephen Maguire, two cracks of contemporary digital painting. We…
The Grafiti is a new painting technique that consists on painting with spray on the walls, the urban objects, the urban transport and other elements of the city. Initially, the…
Painting on glass is an application of paint in a very versatile medium. Once painted, the glass objects can be used for common use or as a decorative object. But…
It is a technique to paint on unprimed canvas, with colors that are waterproof once dried up and therefore, the fabric can be washed. New industries have developed dyes and…
Silk is a special material and it´s a great hobby to paint designs on it directly. There is a technique developed for this kind of painting, that depending of what…
There are some special paints used to paint on ceramics and glazes objects, or cooked, as porcelain, earthenware, stoneware and glazed tiles. Modern paintings, once the object has been painted,…
The art of the marker is great for creating quick ideas that are colored with its liquid ink. Allows much faster drawing and coloring. If you put work well, the…
Craft original from Japan, the papers marbling have patterns similar to a smooth marble or other stones. This papers with marbled forms of water are made with a simple technique…
The visual outline is the line or group of lines that define a shape or figure. By limiting the shape, the lines isolate this shape into the space or the…
This is an analysis of the expressiveness power of the positions of the shapes in a picture, and how they gain dynamism, stability, rhythm, order, disorder, etc.. depending on how…
