5 Ways to Shade your Drawing

5 Ways to Shade your Drawing

Shading your work can transform your artwork to have more depth, value and when done correctly, can make your drawings appear three dimensional. Ha...
How to Varnish a Painting

How to Varnish a Painting

Varnishing your paintings is a very important step, not only does it protect and preserve your painting but it helps enhance the colours. First and...
Warm-Up Drawings

Warm-Up Drawings

Warming up before drawing can make a huge difference in your final work. Perhaps you have seen some warm up drawings online already. Today let's go...
The Time it Takes to Draw

The Time it Takes to Draw

We all know drawing takes time, and how much time we allot ourselves can drastically change the outcome of our final pieces. While it can be frustr...
Gesture Drawing

Gesture Drawing

Start your drawing session off right with gesture drawings. Gesture drawing is a quick one minute and two minute exercise that stimulates your brai...
Blind Contour Drawings

Blind Contour Drawings

Back in college this was one of my favorite exercises in life drawing, though I did have a few peers that struggled with this. A blind contour draw...
Tightening your Canvas

Tightening your Canvas

Sometimes canvases can loosen up over time, this can be for several reasons. Luckily we have an easy trick to help tighten your canvas. All you'll ...
The Bargue Drawing Method

The Bargue Drawing Method

The Bargue Drawing Method is a form of classic life drawing. It's the study and break down of a model into their most basic lines and shapes then b...
Building your Portfolio for Galleries and School

Building your Portfolio for Galleries and School

Building a portfolio is a showcase of your best works as an artist! While it can be tedious to go through everything you've made to pick out the be...
Let's Talk About Selling!

Let's Talk About Selling!

As artists, many of us find selling our pieces a deeply emotional one to say the least. From the very moment we consider selling our work we may fe...
Let's Talk About Printing!

Let's Talk About Printing!

Let's talk about printing. Now that our piece is saved to our device of choice a bunch of new options have opened up for us. Here are just a few op...
Let's Talk About Scanning!

Let's Talk About Scanning!

There are many reasons that we, as artists, would want to preserve our work digitally. Building an online presence or portfolio, selling prints of ...