Inside Take: 7 Rewards of Plein Air Sketching
Learn how sketching on-site can help uncover inspiration that simple reference photos alone cannot provide. Take your artwork to the next level with t…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Artist’s Drawing Paper
Not sure what artists drawing paper to buy? Here's what to look for and what I recommend.
Great Grey: Oil Paints for the Right Tone
These are the best oil paints for mixing the perfect grey. If you're struggling to mix neutral tones and to control temperature, start here!
Artist’s Graphite Pencils, A Beginner’s Guide
Not sure what artists graphite pencils to buy? Here's what to look for and what I recommend.
Sip, Paint, Sip | Sketches with Wine, Tea and Coffee
What could you do with old, undrinkable wine? What a cup of unfinished coffee or tea? One option is to use it as a medium with which to create an imag…
Improve Your Odds of Success in Your Painting
Improve your chances for success by making these habits a regular part of your painting practice
Complements of the Artist
Complementary colors—the hues directly opposite each other on the color wheel— are eye candy. The eye delights in these color combinations and dan…
7 Simple Tips to Encourage a Daily Drawing Routine
There’s nothing like a consistent drawing practice to keep your creativity fired up. Follow these tips to draw every day.
14 Best Places to Sketch
Sketching is the best and easiest and most immediate way you can let your creativity flow. Just put pen on paper and you are halfway there. Here are 1…
The Holiday Season Means Holiday Sketching
The holidays are about a lot of things -- including drawing. Here's how I get my holiday sketching fix with family, friends and guests who visit.
11 Artists on the Sketchbooks and Materials That Keep Them Creative
11 artists open the pages of their sketchbooks and journals, with recommendations for us sketching techniques to use, plus the art materials they woul…
10 Different Approaches to Drawing
If you love drawing and are hungry for drawing ideas, look no further than exploring all these 10 different ways you can draw from artist and instruct…
Elevated Doodle Art
Sandrine Pelissier has been adding doodle art, marks, scribbles patterns and blotches to her paintings for many years and often this is one of the mos…
5 Artful Moments from SketchKon
Five of the most artful moments of this year's first annual SketchKon, the unconventional sketching convention where drawing, fun, sketchbooks and com…
Travel Journals for Artists
Illustrator, muralist, animator and author Prashant Miranda has documented his life during the last 25 years in over 300 sketchbooks. Needless to say …
Art Hacks and Pointers for Pen and Ink
Take in all these ink pointers into consideration in your next sketch. Plus pen and ink techniques for beginners on usage, storage and more.