I have been looking for a free online video series on art history so every one could get quick an over view of art. And I finally found one. The videos are well made. The only drawback is they have the rather standard and propaganda like views pushed by the modern art establishment.  If you  [ Read More ]

As mentioned in the introduction to this humble class I am going to be telling the story of art using studies of selected artists. And besides telling the larger story of art you will learn about the struggles of the artists. And some times their ways of working. And the real lives behind the history.  [ Read More ]

After working with students in the free art course it has become clear that we need a section on art history. And even more importantly it is clear the students want to have it. And since I love history I am happy to be able to do this section. But of course after the first  [ Read More ]

For the next exercise we will be doing the a sphere. You should have plenty of practice doing them from the shading part of the course. Now to get started get your palette out. Then mix small amounts of each value just like the last exercise. Next choose darker middle value and cover the the  [ Read More ]

For this first exercise we are going to do the same value scale as from lesson A of the shading course.  And we are going to it on your palette so you can a palette of grayscale. Now keep in mind you will not be painting yet so we only want a tiny tiny bit  [ Read More ]

Well it is now the time in the art work to introduce you to painting. By now you will have seen the limitations of pencil, charcoal, pastels and other related media probably. And you will be wanted something where you can do more. And the logical next step is painting. So get ready to learn  [ Read More ]

Well a lot of you were asking about how to make a cheap easel so I decided to make some instructions  instructions and a video.  This easel was designed to be very little work and to take very few tools and of course to be very very cheap.  Below you can see the instructions just  [ Read More ]

Well I have most of the bugs worked out and I have finally made the introduction / welcome video for the art course. You can see it below. The next step will be to start doing video related to each lesson and topic so look for those soon. And yes I know I need to  [ Read More ]

For this next lesson we will finally do painting. And congratulations every one for putting in all the hard work to get to this point. And do not worry I am going to do digital painting also but it will be coming up in future lessons. To start with let me first give you an  [ Read More ]

Well this exercise will be a sort of test to make sure you have learned the basics of what you need. It will not be to see if you know everything about anatomy because you cant know it all at this point:) So even after this section is finished you still need to keep working  [ Read More ]