Tutorials

Learn the 10 steps to painting trees, starting with the most general shapes of the tree and ending with the details. Robie Benve shares her ten secrets to painting trees that are believable and that present character and dimension.

Do you want to create a beautiful acrylic landscape painting on a toned canvas? I've laid out step-by-step instructions for the painting process and included a time-lapse video of the sketching that you can reference.

If you are used to painting in the studio, the first few paintings you do outdoors are going to be very challenging. However, painting en plein air can be a great experience and teach you a lot. Here are 11 tips that can help you make outdoor painting a little easier and more successful.

Learn to draw fish in underwater scenery with a very unique and creative theme using plastic bags. It is very simple and even kids can easily make it. It depicts the scenery seen by a scuba diver in the deep sea.

10 great technical tips to paint gorgeous skies and clouds. Learn to notice things like atmospheric and linear perspective, how sky colors are less intense in the distance and more intense in the clouds closer to us, and how both sky and clouds have some of the softest edges you can find in nature.

Many brushstroke techniques can be used for fine art painting, including crosshatching, hatching, dry brush, flat wash, scumbling, stippling, etc. Learn the different brushstrokes and become a more successful painter.

A list of eight practical and helpful tips to help you improve your landscape paintings. Great for beginner artists, but also useful to those that have been painting for a while.

Learn about the elements and vocabulary of art. Lines and shapes are essential elements of painting. How you use them in art strongly affects the composition and overall feeling of the painting.

Struggling to paint fire? Painting fire can seem intimidating to the novice artist. However, with a lot of observation and mastering of the basics, you can easily paint fire. Here some basic tips.

A step-by-step overview of the different stages and the decision-making involved in a landscape acrylic painting, with an example featuring a cow in an Alpine pasture.