Hey there, fellow artist! Welcome to a super-duper useful blog post in which we will go over how to create "lowlights" in any painting you create. Lowlights go hand-in-hand with highlights, which we covered in a previous post as well. When used in conjunction with highlights, lowlights, or areas of perceived "darkness" in a painting, …
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Welcome, fellow painter! Let's go over some quick and easy ways to add value to your paintings. Value is, of course, a lot of things in the world of art—but, here, we're talking about value in terms of highlights and lowlights. Specifically, we're going to cover highlights in this article. Why Should I Add Highlights …
Welcome, fellow artists, to a quick crash course in "value"—one of the key elements of art, and one of the key pieces to making your paintings look beautiful. We've already gone over color theory in the past, which is just as important to understand when it comes to painting, whether you prefer working in acrylics, …
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...with the brand new "Succulent Series" painting course, found right here on Canvas Academy! Listen, if you're a fellow artist wanting to take your paintings to the next level... this is the perfect course for you. It's all about learning to paint succulent plants (which are, of course, everyone's favorite flowering cacti!) with realism. In …
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Welcome back (or welcome, if you're new here!), fellow artists. Today, I've got an amazing, totally free painting workshop to share with you! And it's all about practicing your acrylic paint blending technique. And, yes, I realize that that is quite a mouthful to say aloud... but, hey, we're just here to make ourselves better …
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Remember the last "how to read while doing yoga" video class we did a few months back? How about the "how to read while doing pilates" video routine we did previously? Well, if you don't recall (or if you're just new around here), I got you! You can check out those past videos right here... …
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Yessssss, my fellow painters—we have another amazingly awesome free painting class to share with you today! And, actually, this one is a bit more of a "workshop", if you will, because it's focused on practicing and learning new painting techniques through a set of specific exercises. And, not only does this painting workshop come with …
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(Note to self: don't ever before a spy if you're even a little bit claustrophobic.)--Page 163 Hello again, fellow YA readers! I'm finally back today with another sweet lil' book review... and this one is from one of our favorite young adult/teen fiction sub-genres... spy books. Because, remember how I wrote and shared my own …
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Welcome, fellow painters (and brand new painters!). It's time to learn not just how to paint—but how to hand-paint greeting cards. Just like some of these! Why Make Your Own Cards Okay, sure, you could always stop by the dollar store and pick up a handful of cheap greeting cards for birthdays, anniversaries, etc... but, …
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It's all a bunch of hoopla. Hoopla, hoopla, hoopla. (Yes, that's a SpongeBob circa 2002 reference, if anyone else shares that type of nostalgia...) Or, at least, that's what everyone's new favorite reading platform, hoopla, is all about. Except for it's not just a bunch of hoopla, and it's actually a lot of free reading …
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