Every person can create something beautiful. Don’t be afraid of a blank piece of paper or a blank canvas.
Experiment with different mediums and techniques.
I’ll do my best to help you.
Watercolor is very capricious but highly addictive. I think that everyone who uses this medium has exclaimed at least once, ‘These paints are going to make me crazy! I’m done!’ – and reached for them again in a few days…
You might already know that charcoal is made either of natural branches heated in a kiln or from charred wood dust mixed with binders (I’ve got a post on the subject here). Today I want to tell you about the…
Charcoal gives a more intensive black color than graphite and enables a draughtsman to experiment with a rich variety of tonal gradation. This organic material is perfectly suited for classic drawing, particularly for portraying a nude human body.
The right eraser acts as a superhero: it readily saves the wonderful worlds which you are creating with graphite pencils. The wrong one can ruin your drawing.
I like regular pencils but sometimes it seems to me that grey graphite sketches look too stern. Reddish-brown sanguine drawings are much warmer.
According to a popular belief, synthetic bristle is simply not comparable to Kolinsky sable or even squirrel. Synthetic brushes have a number of drawbacks, that’s true, but I’m sure: they offer significant advantages over their counterparts at the same time. And it…
The head of a brush may be manufactured of synthetic or natural materials. Modern-day polyester filaments differ greatly in performance – you never know what they’re capable of until you try to use them. The behavior of natural material is more predictable. Each…
To get on with a person, you’ll have to understand their nature. It’s the same thing with paints. They are very varied.
Whether you want to become a draughtsman or a painter, you will use pencils. How to choose them? Let me give you some pointers.
An easel can become an essential part of your art kit or a cumbersome thing collecting dust. Don’t acquire it without careful planning.