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Studio Tools | Keeping Things Clean With a Messy Medium
If cleanliness is next to godliness, then pastelists definitely spend a lot of their time in hell. While it’s true that our wet-media brothers and sisters can be messy when they paint, it’s the...
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Recycled Art Tools | 18 Household Items Put to Artistic Use
In today’s economy, a sensible artist must be as resourceful as she can. Where better to practice creative upcycling than in the art studio? We asked Watercolor Artist readers to share their best...
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Tips for Framing Pastels | 4 Questions to Consider
How to frame a pastel is one of the most frequently asked questions I hear during a painting workshop. Many painters find it superfluous to discuss the frame, feeling that the artwork should matter...
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Creativity Workshop: Etch-A-Sketch
I love the composition of Bike Bridge, Amsterdam (watercolor with colored pencil and gouache on paper, 13×231⁄4). To help the bridge really stand out, I decided to make it purple. Originally, it was...
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Why Register With the Copyright Office? | By Leonard DuBoff
To register with the copyright office or not to register with the copyright office?Q. I understand that, according to federal copyright law, I have an automatic copyright to any piece of art I create,...
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Pastel Frequent Flyers | Tips for Navigating Air Travel with Art Supplies
I’m frequently required to travel by air. As any pastelist knows, who has had to go through the strict TSA inspection routine at an airport with a pastel palette, it can be a stressful ordeal. Our...
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Top Ten How to Draw Manga Art Supplies
If you haven’t checked out our sister site, IMPACT-books.com, lately, you might want to head over and see what’s up. We’ve been sharing some great how to draw and paint demonstrations on everything...
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Fuel Your Art Project Ideas with THE Creativity Magazine
The feedback on the inaugural issue of Inspired, which launched in September, confirmed our suspicions: Many of you are eager for fun ways to nurture your creativity. Today, we’re happy to deliver a...
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Getting Organized | The Pastel Edition, Part 1
Many pastel artists will awake on Tuesday morning to the thrill of opening presents. If in the past year, Santa Claus has deemed them to be nice not naughty, they will undoubtedly received pastels...
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Homemade Gesso Recipe for a True Gesso Panel
This article is a condensed excerpt from the book Egg Tempera Painting: A Comprehensive Guide by Koo Schadler. For a more in depth-discussion of true gesso panels, please refer the book, available at...
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The Acrylic Difference by Nancy Hagin
Nancy Hagin’s acrylic and watercolor paintings explore color symmetries and repeating patterns to deconstruct familiar objects into harmonious planes of color. In this free excerpt from The Artist’s...
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Water-Soluble Colored Pencil Demo | Gary Greene
Gary Greene shares his step-by-step wet-on-dry technique for creating Flower Power (water-soluble colored pencils and wax-based colored pencil on paper, 17¾x24), as seen in the August 2013 issue of...
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Creativity Workshop | Surprising Watercolor Techniques for Achieving...
By DEENA S. BALLBecause of my restless, inquisitive, creative nature, I’m constantly exploring different ways to exploit the magical beauty of watercolor painting. Letting the paints run, puddle and...
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Creativity Workshop: Loosen Up Responses
The editors of Watercolor Artist magazine are delighted to announce the winner of our latest watercolor painting challenge! In the June 2013 issue of Watercolor Artist, Richard Stephens challenged...
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Framing the Funny with Brian Burt
by Brian BurtThis demo is an excerpt from Daniel Brown’s feature article “Small Worlds” in The Artist’s Magazine (September 2013). If you’d like to read the full issue, click here. If you’d like to...
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The Bargue Method at the Academy of Realist Art
The Fall 2013 issue of Drawing marks the magazine’s 10th anniversary, and as part of the celebration, we shined a spotlight on drawing instruction, an integral part of the magazine’s content for the...
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The Hard Choice in Pastel | 3 Factors to Consider When Selecting Your Stick
Within the sphere of pastels, there are varying degrees of stick firmness. The level of softness or hardness of a pastel stick is dependent on the individual pigment characteristics, the addition of...
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Starting With a Midtone
By Soon Y. WarrenThis is an excerpt from Judith Fairly’s full feature article “A View From the Garden” in The Artist’s Magazine (November 2013). Click here to read the full issue, or click here to...
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Creativity Workshop: Put Line in Your Design
Jan Fabian Wallake shares 7 tips for using drawing and line work in your painting composition. Take her advice and create your own new work.Glad Tidings (watercolor on paper, 22×30), by Jan Fabian...
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Essential Pastel Techniques: Turn Your Pastel Painting Problems Into...
By Carole KatchenIt’s always exciting to start a new pastel painting. The first strokes are full of promise, then, suddenly, it can all fall apart. When this happens, most artists crumple up the...
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