5 Steps to Get Into an Optimal Painting Flow

It's not all about education, but some knowledge can help.

by Doug Swinton The most common problem in landscape painting has to do with the sky. For example, when a painting seems dark, dreary or...

After a hearty laugh over how a book about golf could possibly pertain to art, I listened to his explanation. I was instantly convinced.

The devil is in the details.

Good questions are the key to solving painting problems.

Value does all the work; Colour gets all the credit.

The Shadow Knows...

Green is the trickiest colour to control.

You need to be able to draw to paint well.

Frame your art for success.

Value, Temperature, Chroma, Perspective, Texture...

There is a never-ending array of possibilities for how light affects the world. You may be using indoor lighting and controlling it...

All that social media and tweety stuff is hard to sort out. Let’s not go down that path today.

by Doug Swinton Some people will tell you that rules in art shouldn’t exist and that art needs to be free, expressive, loose and...

“bad reference photo equals bad painting”.

1. Hue 2. Bias 3. Value 4. Chroma

Artists have long been associated with having mystical abilities and a unique way of perceiving the world

First employed in prehistoric cave paintings, Red Ochre is one of the oldest pigments used in art and is still widely used today.

Using dominant & recessive qualities of pigments to your advantage.