How to Start Oil Painting

How to Start Oil Painting

Chantal Cameron
Oil Painting, also known as the medium of the masters. It is the process of painting with pigments that have been combined with oil. Pigments have ...
All About Colour Theory

All About Colour Theory

Chantal Cameron
The psychology of colour:  As artists, colour is our most powerful tool. We can use it to direct our viewers eyes and illicit strong emotion. This ...
5 Ways to Shade your Drawing

5 Ways to Shade your Drawing

Chantal Cameron
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

Chantal Cameron
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

Chantal Cameron
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

Chantal Cameron
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

Chantal Cameron
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

Chantal Cameron
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

Chantal Cameron
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

Chantal Cameron
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

Chantal Cameron
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!

Chantal Cameron
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...