10 Landscape Painting Tips Perfect for Beginners

Here are 10 landscape painting tips perfect for beginners. Landscape painting can be as simple or as complex as you want to make it. It is a fantastic subject for those just starting out with painting, but very few artists actually master the art of landscape painting. Whilst these tips are targeted at beginners, even advanced artists … Read more

Landscape Painting Tutorial – Mount Barney

I recently went hiking at Mount Barney in Queensland and decided to paint one of the beautiful scenes of the mountain range. I will take you through this landscape painting tutorial from selecting the photo all the way through to signing. Read more below: Material List Medium-Sized Filbert Paint Brush Medium-Sized Flat Paint Brush Medium-Sized Round … Read more

Test Yourself With Timed Painting Challenges

One of the best ways to improve your instinctive painting skills is to test yourself with timed painting challenges. This involves setting a challenging but achievable time to complete a painting from start to finish in a single session. I generally like to complete a few 20-minute paintings during the month. These will not be … Read more

Why Bad Weather Makes for Great Painting Inspiration

Many beginner painters start out just trying to paint those bright, sunny days. But it is the days when the weather is miserable which can make for fantastic painting inspiration. You get a completely different spectrum of colors and emotions with bad weather. The grays come out in full force, with touches of bright reds, … Read more

The Best Way to Learn Is to Steal…

The best artists are often the best thieves! Not the bad kind. Just in the sense they are able to observe and mimic the techniques of other artists. There is nothing wrong with this. It is just part of the learning process. You find people who are better than you and you try to learn … Read more

Load that brush

A common issue when you start painting is simply not using enough paint. You place small dabs of paint on your palette and timidly dance around the canvas, but you never really commit to the painting this way. I was the same when I started. You can almost feel my lack of confidence in some of … Read more

The Composition Hierarchy

Thanks for Reading! Thanks for taking the time to read this post. I appreciate it! Feel free to share with friends. If you want more painting tips, check out my Painting Academy course. Happy painting! Dan Scott Draw Paint Academy

Quotes by the Impressionist Master Claude Monet

Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) is one of my all-time favorite artists. He was a figurehead of the impressionist movement who used vibrant colors and bold strokes. In fact, the term impressionism in the painting world was derived from one of Claude Monet’s paintings named Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise). This painting was … Read more

Inspirational Art Quotes By John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) was an American artist known as one of the leading portrait artists of his time. His portraits are grand and express remarkable realism. He also painted many landscapes using oils and watercolors which arguably venture into impressionism, painted with a very loose style. He painted directly what he saw … Read more