Jerry's Artarama Artist Resources & Blog

Create An Oil Pastel Painting: Step By Step & Video

Create An Oil Pastel Painting, Step-By-Step How To Video Featuring: Mungyo Gallery Oil Pastels Did you love that feeling of crayons in your hand as a kid? That freedom and feel of smooth application of color in your hand, where tight detail isn’t a thought seems just a lovely memory, right? Well what if you…..

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Jerry's -- 13/03/2019

Basic Watercolor Skills Demo-Creating a Small Landscape

Jerry’s LIVE Episode #94 – Basic Watercolor Skills Demo- Creating a Small Landscape Using Watercolor Supplies Featuring: Turner Professional Watercolors Basic Watercolor Skills Demo – Take just the basic supplies needed to paint in watercolor: paint, paper, brushes, and a palette… and watch this basic watercolor LIVE demo of a small landscape! This event will…..

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Jerry's -- 07/03/2019

Beginners Guide How To Colored Pencils & Supplies

Beginner: How To Colored Pencil Skills With Basic Supplies Featuring: Cezanne 72ct, Colored Pencils Set The Colored Pencil medium has always maintained popularity with illustrators, designers, and students, alike. However, it has risen as a fine art medium to a huge number of devotees, demanding lightfastness improvements of manufacturers and vast color ranges. But, what’s…..

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Jerry's -- 27/02/2019

Solvent-Free Oil Painting w/ Water Mixable Oil Paints: Video & Article

Water Mixable Oils: An Introduction to Solvent-Free Oil Painting – Jerry’s LIVE Episode #92 Featuring: LUKAS Berlin Water Mixable Oils! So you’ve always wanted to try oil painting, but you have asthma, a compromised immune system, or other health issues that have kept you from it? The water mixable oils revolution can change all that!…..

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Jerry's -- 20/02/2019

Learn Beginner Graphite Pencil Drawing Skills

Graphite pencil drawing is a wonderful way to start your artistic journey and when beginning, it can be challenging to know where to start! First, lets discuss: What is a graphite pencil? A graphite pencil is made up of a graphite core enclosed in an plastic casing. The hardness or softness of the pencil is…..

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Jerry's -- 15/02/2019

Art Decor Wood Frames In White, Grey and More Colors.

Decorate your walls with your art! Elegant and Stylish art frames for your art from the Country Chic Frame Style made exclusively by Jerry’s here in the USA. The Perfect Choice for finishing your framed art prints, watercolors and photographs, we recommend pairing with our Ambiance Conservation Pre-cut Mat collection. Made in the USA •…..

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Jerry's -- 08/02/2019

Learn Mixed Media Painting Step-By-Step

Jerry’s LIVE Episode #90 – Mixed Media Painting Step-By-Step: Watch and Paint Along from Start to Finish Featuring Top Brands: Turner, GOLDEN, Liquitex, Da Vinci Panels and More Mixed Media works are fun and freeing to create – you can use most any supplies together, provided you know what works with what or how it…..

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Jerry's -- 08/02/2019

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…..

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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…..

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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,…..

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Jerry's -- 17/01/2019

Artist Spotlight – Christina Welch & Soho Artist Acrylics

About Christina Welch Christina Welch is a self-taught mixed media artist originally from Western New York. Currently, she resides in the quaint town of Franklinton, North Carolina. Starting at the age of 4, she was taught crocheting by her grandmother.  Since then, she developed a love for the Arts including bead painting, jewelry design, baking, and…..

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Jerry's -- 30/11/2018

Holiday Video Gift Guide for Artists

Jerry’s LIVE Episode #84 – Artist Holiday Gift Guide Extravaganza Looking for the best gifts for artists for your art students, an artistic grandchild, crafty niece or nephew, or your best friend who enjoys dabbling with color? Do you suffer from that significant other who always wants to bestow you with art supplies, but wants…..

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Jerry's -- 29/11/2018

How-To Lessons: Basic Airbrush Skills & How it can be integrated into your artwork

Jerry’s LIVE Episode #81: How-To Lessons: Basic Airbrush Skills with Bryan Pope The mystery surrounding the medium of airbrushing and how it can be integrated into your artwork– both as a time saver and as an additional tool in your artistic arsenal- is enough to throw some artists off from ever giving it a try……

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Jerry's -- 31/10/2018

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…..

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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…..

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Jerry's -- 09/10/2018