Painting a sunlit village landscape [Watercolor video tutorial]

Today’s watercolor painting tutorial comes from Roytheartist. It’s a cool video demo / painting lesson on painting a village landscape. Enjoy!

Painting Distant Hills & Mountains [Watercolor Painting Video tutorial]

Here’s another informative watercolor painting video tutorial by BobDavies88 showing how you to paint distant hills and mountains.

How to use watercolor pencils part 2 [Video tutorial]

Here’s part 2 of the video tutorial series by BobDavies88 on “How to use watercolor pencils”. You can catch Part 1 of the video tutorial here. Hit the “Read more” link to view the video for part 2.

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How to use watercolor pencils part 1 [Video Tutorial]

I personally don’t have much experience with watercolor pencils and have always wanted to learn more. Here’s part 1 of a nice video introduction to using watercolor pencils by BobDavies88. Hit the read more link to view the video.

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Video tutorial: Using Photoshop To Create Realistic Painting Effect

Ever want to use Photoshop or any other painting/graphic software (like Xara) to create the effect of a real painting? Here’s an interesting video tutorial from DSheppard that teaches you how. Enjoy!

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Illustrator CS4 Video Tutorial: Make silhouettes with gradients & mesh tool

Here’s a useful video from keuppart teaching you how to use Illustrator CS4 to make silhouettes with gradients making use of the mesh and live trace tools.

If you want to learn more on how to use Illustrator CS4, check out the Adobe Illustrator CS4 Essentials self-study training.

Build a 3D Frabjous Art Piece Out of Cardboard

Build a Frab-a-whatchamacallit out of cardboard? Yeah, that’s what I thought too when I saw this. But after a more careful inspection, I thought this was pretty neat and had to share it with you.

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How to take care of your watercolor brushes

paint-brushes-cleanYour watercolor paint brushes are your babies when it comes to watercolor painting. You’ve spent hard-earned money on them so you’ll want to take very good care of them.

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How to choose watercolor paints [How-to]

Watercolour paints

Watercolour paints

photo by jared

As a hobby artist, you might struggle with the dilemma of cost vs. quality when it comes to buying watercolor paints. (I know I struggle with this)

This article will help you determine how to choose the right watercolor paints for you.

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