Ready to take your acrylic flowers to the next level? Because, whether you're a beginner painter still having trouble with making any flowers on your canvases or you're an experienced artist wanting to make your flowers more photo-realistic... well, I've got tips for you! After all, painting flowers is a key skill that we should …
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Line, Shape & Form: 3 Key Elements to Your Paintings
Hey there once again, fellow artists, and welcome to a quick-fire lesson in just a few of the elements of art—which, if you didn't know, are just some of the key components that we should try to add to our paintings to make them speak to us visually. Now, there are actually 7 total elements …
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5 Methods for Adding Lowlights to Your Paintings
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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2 Ways to Add Highlights to Your Paintings
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 …
What Is “Value” in Painting & Why Does it Matter?
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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NEW: Learn to Paint a Succulent or Two in This Online Course
...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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Learn Online with This Free Paint Blending Workshop for Beginners
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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How to Make Your Own Hand-Painted Greeting Cards
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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Here’s How to Paint Pets Like a Pro
Hello there, lovely painters. If you're new around here, let's get acquainted really quickly... I am Kari Lynn M., a fellow artist just like you! And I happen to be an artist who loves connecting with other artists, chatting art, and sharing art tips and such... so, hey, let's just be friends already, right? Alright, …
How to Perfect Your Watercolor Flowers
Everybody absolutely loves the look of watercolor flowers. After all, they can appear to pop off the page or canvas with vibrant colors that seamlessly flow into one another, and that's something beautiful. But, then the other shoe drops because... well, admiring watercolor flowers is one thing, and making watercolor flowers is completely another! Don't …
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