Art Fun Cheap

Learning to select art supplies can save you money. The key thing is knowing what to buy. For example, cheap water colors can be discouraging and a waste of time and money. Quality art supplies are sometimes well worth the money. But how can you know till you try some out? That gives you a [...]

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When little children are taught the alphabet, they are given a tool that allows them to make any word in the language. In the same way, learning the basics of human anatomy will help you to draw any animal, because we are all built to the same basic design. Until the time of the Renaissance, [...]

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Children do best when their imaginations and creativity are being stimulated. That’s why having plenty of arts and crafts for kids is important when you’re raising a family, babysitting little ones, or running a school program. However, you may not know just how many types of arts and crafts for kids are available. Here are [...]

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Celebrities who express themselves through their use of art supplies are becoming more popular. Many famous faces are no longer content to be an expert in their chosen field and are embarking on new careers by using art supplies to create paintings, pictures and sketches. Spoonfed magazine noticed that the unlikely celebrity artist market was [...]

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Sketching is the skill of simulating any view on paper with just a few strokes in a few minutes. Anyone can learn how to sketch with some basic observation skills. This potential  is accessible at any age! As a hobby, pencil sketching offers an alternative to putting your thoughts onto paper when words are not [...]

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As a contemporary artist that enjoys nature, I often head for the country to admire the wonderful landscapes, mountains, trees, lakes, flowers, birds etc. The effect they have on me is calming. The rare beauty of this awakens my emotions. Often I capture these moments on camera, so that the memory remains with me.

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By Remi Engels, guest blogger Once you have hatched the primary value masses of your portrait it is time to blend and “remove” the lights with a kneaded eraser. A stump is a cylindrical tool tapered at the ends and generally made of rolled paper. Stumping then is to smear or blend your hatchings with a [...]

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Capturing the delicate, fleeting gestures of individual emotions in portrait sketching is a test for any draftsperson. There are basically six principal emotions: surprise, happiness, sadness, anger, fear and disgust. The gestures of these key feelings are instinctual, the muscle interactions and actions are involuntary. In general, the facial muscles are fragile, finely in step [...]

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By Remi Engles, guest blogger Most people have the fixed idea that the head is more or less formed like an oval. Actually, the head is much rectangular than we suppose. The oval ideas is one of those simplified preconceived symbols the mind uses as a means for quick identification. Most beginning students will usually [...]

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In this article we imagine that you draw directly from life or from a suitable photo. In other words, we imagine that you do not use the so-called grid method. This technique relies on a grid drawn both on the photo of your subject as well as your sketching paper.

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