Natural Turpentine Alternatives & Healthier Options

A Safer, Natural Alternative to Turpentine The Chelsea Classical Medium, Lavender Spike Oil Essence has a distinctive, sweet lavender scent, and is a safer, natural alternative to Turpentine and does not cause chronic health problems that are often associated with turpentine or odorless petroleum mineral spirits.  Non-toxic alternatives to turpentine! Made in the USA from Old…..

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Jerry's -- 13/08/2018

Cut Your Own Mats with Logan LIVE Episode 68

Jerry’s LIVE – Episode #68: Basic Mat Cutting with Brian Buell from Logan Graphic Products If part of selling your work to prospective clients involves matting… if you do a lot of art fairs and shows… if you are a printmaker who mats each work in the edition… THIS show is for you! Brian Buell…..

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Jerry's -- 02/08/2018

What is Alla Prima Painting?

Jerry’s LIVE Episode 67 – Learn What All Prima Painting is! The term “Alla Prima” confuses most artists. What does it mean? Alla Prima, quite simply, is direct painting- stemming from the Italian term that translates to “at first”. Done in one to two painting sessions, the painting is done wet on wet, with layers…..

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Jerry's -- 02/08/2018

Easy Guide To Photographing Your Art Like a Pro

Jerry’s LIVE Episode 66: Photographing Your Art Video Episode #66: Artistic Self-Improvement, Ep 5: Photographing Your Art with Guest Will Campbell It’s your art that speaks for itself, right? Not always! Trying to get artwork into shows? Do you need good high-res images to approach galleries with? How about clear, crisp images for your website?…..

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Jerry's -- 02/08/2018

Turner Artists’ Watercolors Review – Creative Adventures

Welcome to Episode 6: Turner Watercolors Review by Lisa Kowieski In this in-studio teaching episode, I will be going over the Turner Watercolors Set of 18, 15ml Tubes. These watercolors are made in Japan and are top of the line quality made out of pigments and high end gum arabic (no fillers used!). In my…..

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Jerry's -- 01/08/2018

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…..

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Jerry's -- 27/07/2018

Painting a Portrait Painting in Oils

  Brian Neher is an award-winning portrait artist who has captured the likenesses of clients of all ages. His work has been shown at the Portrait Institute in Manhattan, N.Y., as well as in American Artist magazine. He has received recognition in the National Portrait Competition as well as the West Coast Society of Portrait…..

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Jerry's -- 25/07/2018

Oil Pastels & Oil Sticks -The Differences & Uses of Each

Jerry’s LIVE Episode 65 Even when browsing artist’s web group posts, it becomes disturbingly apparent in discussions that even some professional artists don’t know the difference between oil pastels and oil sticks. But they SOUND like the same thing. Aren’t they? NOPE. Which can be safely incorporated in the lower levels of an oil painting?…..

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Jerry's -- 11/07/2018

Plein Air Watercolor Painting on a Sailboat

Creative Adventures Episode 5: Welcome to Episode 5: Watercolor Painting on a Sailboat in California! by Lisa Kowieski This Plein Air watercolor painting video takes place in the Marina Del Rey Harbor just outside of Los Angeles, California. We will be learning about some of my FAVORITE supplies I bring for watercolor Plein Air painting when…..

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Jerry's -- 02/07/2018

Pencil or Paint? How About Water Soluble Graphite

Jerry’s LIVE Episode 62 Water soluble graphite products are a dandy little group of sleeper supplies that relatively few artists even know exist. Besides pencils, there are sticks, pans, tailor-shaped blocks, water soluble powders, liquid pencil, watercolor pencils and even a mystery product Amy can’t wait to demonstrate Details Is it for drawing, or for…..

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Jerry's -- 20/06/2018

Oil Paints Explained for Traditional Oil Painting

Learn more about traditional oil painting and what different oil paint on the market can offer the oil painter from the beginner to the seasoned professional. Jerry’s LIVE Episode 55, VIDEO Details Oil painting came to favor with artists during the 14th century, where it quickly replaced egg tempera as the primary painting medium. Originally…..

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Jerry's -- 02/05/2018

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…..

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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…..

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Jerry's -- 28/03/2018

Artist Spotlight – Gamini Ratnavira & Turner Acryl Gouache

Gamini Ratnavira was born and raised in tropical Sri Lanka. As a self-taught artist he uses his photographic memory and life experiences to produce vibrant, colorful images of the rain forest flora and fauna, which are complimented with intriguing stories about his work with wildlife and research information about each painting. His paintings reveal his love…..

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Jerry's -- 08/03/2018

Why I Love Lukas Berlin Water Mixable Oils Paints by Professional Artist Roseann Madia

My name is Roseann Madia. I was born (in Chicago), with a crazy talent. pretty much, whatever I see, i can paint.. & then some. I never took a lesson. And, although I’ve been begged to teach on several occasions, and have only done so briefly, my methods are too unconventional and hard to teach,…..

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Jerry's -- 22/02/2018