Category: How To Techniques & Materials
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Acrylics Painting 101 for Beginners with Basic Supplies
What: Acrylic Painting 101 Video, Beginner Acrylic painting is a versatile and popular medium for artists of all skill levels. Acrylics 101 for Beginners with Basic Supplies When artists want to try new art supplies or a new medium, it can be hard to determine what you REALLY need (at bare minimum) to give it…..
Jerry's -- 31/01/2019
Color Theory 101 – Basic Mixing & Tips For Artists
Color Theory– what exactly is it? Is it color mixing? Quite simply, it IS that, but also so, so much more… Did you know even a fair amount of professional artists have never had a formal color theory (or maybe even a Color and Composition) class? Color theory is the study of how colors interact…..
Jerry's -- 24/01/2019
How to Prepare Canvas, Paper or Panel – Substrate Preparation
Jerry’s Live Episode #87 How To Prepare Canvas, Paper, Panel, Etc. For Your Medium Of Choice! Some artists buy low quality canvases or panels and never add additional primer when it screams for it. Then, there are those who buy exceptional quality, pre-primed substrates– only to add additional, low quality primer right over an existing,…..
Jerry's -- 17/01/2019
How To Frame Pastel & Charcoal Artwork
Jerry’s LIVE Episode #79: Framing Pastel and Charcoal Artwork – with Sam Buie If ever there were super tricky mediums that required some know-how to frame, pastels and charcoal would be it! These dry mediums dust, flake, and powder everywhere and can be just a mess to create, let alone with how to frame them…..
Jerry's -- 16/10/2018
Basic Beginning Pastel Skills
Outside of actual pastel artists, the word “pastel” to most of us brings to mind sidewalk chalk from elementary school or gummy oil pastels from middle school art class. But there are soft pastels that are a grown up, real fine art medium– favored by famed artists as Edgar Degas, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and…..
Jerry's -- 09/10/2018
Basic Watercolor Skills -Watercolor How-To, Lesson #1 Video
Basic Watercolor Skills -Jerry’s LIVE Episode #77 Jerry’s LIVE Episode 77: Always wanted to give watercolor a try, but wanted to learn more about it and maybe see a few techniques before wading in? Have the basic supplies but just never really gave it a go? Join us for this episode, to learn a little…..
Jerry's -- 03/10/2018
Impasto Medium, How To Thicken Your Oil Paints
Why Use Impasto Medium? Paint In Heavy Impasto Techniques Without Wasting Valuable Pigment! Layers Will Dry Without Shrinking, Cracking Or Wrinkling! In this article we are focusing on LUKAS Impasto Oil Painting Medium used to mix with oil paints for impasto techniques. What is an Impasto Medium? Impasto Mediums is ideal for thickening oil paints……
Jerry's -- 12/09/2018
How To Make an Artist Website with WordPress
5 Easy Start/Set Up Steps for Artist Website Instructional Guide As an artist is very important to set up your very own website to market your self , have your works online, your bio and contact information so you can use to market yourself. In this presentation below we will show you 5 basic easy steps…..
Jerry's -- 27/07/2018
Light Boxes and Drawing Aids, Should I Use Them?
From basic composition grids to proportioners, light boxes to projectors, find out what tool you may want to invest in to have in your arsenal. The Jerry’s Live video will be hosted by Instructor Amy Gardner Dean (Jerry’s Resident Professional Artist) and the rest of the Live Team. Jerry’s LIVE Episode 54, VIDEO – Lightboxes…..
Jerry's -- 25/04/2018
7 elements that make up a great composition for your artwork
Creative Adventures Episode 3: Composition Welcome to Creative Adventures Episode 3: Composition by Lisa Kowieski In this in-studio teaching episode, I will be going over 7 elements that make up a great composition for your artwork. I’ll also be giving you a real life example of how I use composition elements when working on painting…..
Jerry's -- 28/03/2018
How to Paint Outside in Telluride, Colorado!
Creative Adventures Episode 2: Welcome to Creative Adventures Episode 2: How to Paint Outside in Telluride, Colorado! (Plein Air Painting Tutorial) – Lisa Kowieski In this first Plein Air tutorial episode of Creative Adventures with Made by Lisa Marie we will be learning how to paint outside, anywhere! This is recommended for artists who wish to…..
Jerry's -- 26/02/2018
Artist Alia El-Bermani & Turner Acryl Gouache Artist Spotlight
About Alia El-Bermani Alia El-Bermani received her BFA in 2000 from Laguna College of Art and Design in CA. This talented figurative painter has had several solo exhibitions, most recently in 2016 at TAMU’s Reynolds Gallery. Her work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions and showcased in museums across the country. In 2015 her…..
Jerry's -- 20/02/2018
Lifelike Oil Paint For Expressing the World Around You
Better Oils, Better Results! Charvin Fine Artists’ Oil Paints are an Elite Artists’ Oil From The French Riviera. One Of The Most Honored And Time Tested Recipes For Oil Color Production, Charvin Fine Artists’ Oils use some of the oldest recipes still in use! Based on over 175 years of experience, Charvin has created a…..
Jerry's -- 08/02/2018
Block Printing with Artist Bill Fick featuring Speedball Art Products
Jerry’s LIVE Episode 42: Block Printing with Artist Bill Fick featuring Speedball Art Products – See Video Below SummaryAfter our basic printmaking episode was such a success, we have decided to up the ante with the help of Speedball. They are bringing out the big guns– and are graciously loaning us renowned printmaker Bill Fick as…..
Jerry's -- 17/01/2018
Painting & Pouring Video with Turner Acryl Gouache
Painting & Pouring with Turner Acryl Gouache – See Video Below Video and LIVE Summary Painting And Pouring With Turner Acryl Gouache The Super Concentrated Vibrant Acryl Gouache – Relax, play, and enjoy the process of producing a pouring painting with Turner Acryl Gouache and Liquitex Pouring Medium, on a DaVinci Pro Liquid Art Panel……