Drawing is the most basic way to exercise creativity and for many artists, it is the elemental skill that introduced them to the art world. No matter if you are using a pencil, charcoal, pen, crayon, or even your fingers, the skills you gain from the sketch art will eventually translate to a bevy of different interesting media. Like all art forms, grasping the fundamentals of pencil sketch art is simple and easy to do, but requires a lot of patience and practice to master, sometimes even pushing you out of your comfort zone. But once ... Read more>>

What makes watercolor art so unique is its unforgiving nature, lines, marks, colors and forms must be applied to perfection the first time itself, as any attempt to paint over simply makes the whole effect muddied. Made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution, the distinctive medium of watercolor can be applied to almost anything — a canvas to paper, fabrics to even woods. The tiny pigments interact in an exciting fashion creating magical effects that are often impossible to reproduce. No, wonder the watercolor portrait ... Read more>>

Thinking of great artists of all time like Leonardo da Vinci, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso, it is most likely that their oil painting portrait or works on canvas done in common mediums would come to mind. It is quite surprising that the master painters in the past dabbled in more than just oil, acrylics or tempera, with many having a penchant for oil pastel art. Basically a crayon made of powdered pigments bound with either gum, clay, or resin, pastel comes in two forms, soft (sometimes called ‘chalk&rsqu... Read more>>

With a tendency away from the academic narrative, the genre of modern art challenged the traditions of the past and redefined the entire art scene — the role of the artists, the relationship between representation and significance. Undoubtedly, modern art paintings with its avant-garde aesthetic transcended time and culture to claim their rightful place in art history. Today, modern art is renowned for its innovative aesthetic and styles marked by the sense of optimism and celebrated for its forward-thinking artists imbued with ... Read more>>

Superbly combining the flexibility of watercolor with the opaqueness and flow of acrylics, gouache is an extremely versatile medium to work with. It can be effortlessly manipulated using just water — adding a little water can lift the medium and push its pigment around after drying, if watered down it can function as watercolors creating blooms and washes. Additionally, it can be layered light to dark or dark to light, unlike watercolor, you can paint in whites instead of masking them off. Even the mistakes in the paintings can ... Read more>>