How to Paint Clothing on Your Acrylic Portrait

How to Paint Clothing on Your Acrylic Portrait

February 24, 2019February 24, 2019 adminartz1 Comment

How do you paint clothing in your acrylic portrait that looks real? That’s what I’ll be showing you today. Learn how to paint wrinkles with convincing light and shadow. This is the ninth video in our series of the oval acrylic portraits. I’m painting in the acrylic glazing technique so it has been taking some time to build up the… Read More

When I listen to The Beatles

February 13, 2019February 13, 2019 adminartz0 comment

Is your painting influenced by the muzic you listen to? I think mine is! Over the last few days I left my usual classical selections and turned on The Beatles! Suddenly I felt younger and wilder! Happier too!Then I grabbed a blank canvas and just had fun. The result led me down a path from the late 60’s when I… Read More

ARTZY MUZES

February 13, 2019February 13, 2019 adminartz0 comment

Did you wake up this morning with a profound thought or idea? Some mornings especially very early in the morning after a few hours of sleep I wake up so “alive” so “inspired” and so full of hope and promise. Euphoric almost, I suppose there is some psychological label for this but whatever it is I love it!It is my… Read More

FEATURED ARTIST Matt Philleo

Techniques for Painting a Realistic Nose in Acrylic Portraits

February 9, 2019February 9, 2019 adminartz0 comment

Do you know how to paint a nose? That’s the topic of this video. I’ll be working on the face, adding some nuances here and there, but primarily adding roundness and subtle tints to the nose. (starts at approx. 9 minutes in.) This is the seventh video in our series of the oval acrylic portraits. I’m painting in the acrylic… Read More

FEATURED ARTIST Mark Carder Oils

Burnt Umber by Mark Carder

February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 adminartz1 Comment

FEATURED ARTIST PORTRAITS VALENTIN SEROV

VALENTIN SEROV (1865-1911) Russian artist ✽ Ernesto Cortazar / Foolish Heart

February 3, 2019February 4, 2019 adminartz0 comment

Valentin Serov (b St Petersburg, 19 Jan 1865; d Moscow, 5 Dec 1911). Russian painter, graphic artist and stage designer. As a child he lived in St Petersburg, but he made frequent trips abroad. In 1874 he travelled to Paris with his mother and frequented the studio of the Russian Realist painter, Il’ya Repin. In 1875 the art patron Savva… Read More