This week’s trawl of the net I came up with this little gem showing Terry Harrison painting with Acrylics. As a painter, I love the use of really old paint brushes that give you great textures and marks and no matter how old the brushes get I always keep them handy.
Terry Harrison uses an everyday sponge to great effect when painting the trees and bushing in his painting. The grass effect Terry gets when he lightly drags the sponge down has a lovely painterly feel and I will certainly give this technique a go in my traditional paintings in the future. Terry has produced a number of great books to help the budding artist, but enjoy this clip and watch out for other great clips to follow.
With summer on us, it’s a fantastic time to leave the studio and enjoy the summer air. Many look to the landscape and the inspiration it gives to help produce some stunning paintings. The RUBooks blog team trawl of the net this week has highlighted this video clip which shows a quick insight into Joe Francis Dowden’s approach to painting water. The medium is watercolour and I still take my hat off to anyone who can master this great medium.
Take a look at the clip below but at the RUBooks store we have a great range of watercolour books to help you get started.
Here at the RUBooks blog we know how passionate you can be about your hobbies. We are too, and we’re going to trawl the net for great art & photography video clips from fellow artists and this is the place we will share them. Watch this space for weekly updates and some of the great clips we find.
To start the ball rolling here’s a great clip regarding a book by master fantasy artist, John Howe named Forging Dragons.
We have some great titles from John Howe here at RUBooks, with a few examples below. Enjoy the video clip and take a look at some of the saving on these great titles available right now at RUBooks.co.uk
Being an artist myself, I take a my hat off to those of you who paint using watercolour. I find the medium really hard to control and after many attempts find myself using acrylic paint for traditional work and the graphics tablet with Photo-shop for my digital painting. After this weekends trawl of the net, I wanted to highlight this video clip. With summer upon us and the urge to get out and about painting, using those long summer days, I thought this clip really highlighted the confidence and skill needed to get out there and paint using watercolour.
Here at rubooks we have some great watercolour how-to books to help you get started in watercolour. We even have the tools to get you started.
