Susan shares her expertise in creating stunning backgrounds and textures for sketching using the suminagashi method. Susan Burnham Neilson is a classically trained contemporary oil painter with a background in art education. Since moving to her home next to a nature conservancy in British Columb...

Karyn Holyk teaches you how to create your own watercolor paints from minerals and crystals. She will show you how to gather the necessary materials, how to source minerals and crystals that are already ground into a fine powder, and how to mix the powders with the ingredients to create a waterc...

Sharon K. Schafer is a professional artist and teacher at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute.
In her introduction to gouache painting, Schafer discusses the history of the medium, its advantages over other water-based paints, and the basic materials and tools needed to get started. Sh...

In Part 1 of Introduction to Graphic Design, Layouts and working with Type. Get started using a computer and Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Inkscape or similar program. You will learn about computer type or "fonts". Learn the difference between raster and vector fonts, true typ...

Landscape Sketching for Beginners with Asya Baldwin

Artist Mary Wilhelm demonstrates the "Indirect Oil Painting Techniques" by starting with a blank canvas, and a small photo for inspiration. She starts with an underpaint and adds detail and color as she demonstrates how she works her way to the completion of the painting in Lesson 6.

Learn the colored pencil technique for layering and burnishing. Instructor: Janie Gildow

Learn to create Impressed lines with Colored Pencil

Laura LePere starts with the basics and teaches you how to create a Southwestern classic critter, A Regal Horned Lizard (Horney Toad) complete with a few ants for snacking. Join Laura on this beginner friendly project in polymer clay. Five parts.

Jay Pierstorff shows you how to photograph flying birds with a dot sight finder. These devices are slotted in to the flash shoe of any camera that has one, and then you can easily track fast moving objects by looking through the dot sight with both eyes, and keeping the red dot on the subject. T...

a great presentation can quickly communicate projects, goals and ideas. It might be required for your job, or it might be something you want to do for a community project or to promote your business to the local service club. Whatever it is, Presenting can be a powerful skill to launch your goals...

Asya shows how to create a monochromatic image using two colors of oil paint, a smooth paper surface and erasers. Is it a painting, drawing or photo? No, it's a "Dry Brush Oil!"

Asya Baldwin demonstrates composition, lighting, subject, texture and object placement in creating a still life scene for drawing or painting.

This Five Part Series includes:
#1 What Is Pastels?
#2 How to Choose Pastels
#3 Why Pastels?
#4 What Supplies Will You Need?
#5 Let's Use Soft Pastels to Make Marks.
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Part #1 Traditional Basics
Part #2 More Basics
Part #3 Modern Fun Ones

Guy Combes teaches his technique for beginning an underpainting. He begins with his method for transferring a photo to canvas for beginning the painting. He continues the demonstration by diluting and applying/removing paint in to complete the underpainting.

Join Instructor Janie Gildow as demonstrates the colored pencil.

Janie Gildow teaches how to draw fur and feathers with colored pencil.

Janie Gildow teaches the basics of using Colored Pencil and Ink together.

Janie Gildow teaches how to use colored pencils on black paper.

Learn watercolor with Rachel Ivanyi

Rachel Invanyi teaches drawing skills.

Join Pro Photographer/Educator Jay Pierstorff for this class on Adobe Lightroom. Learn Lightroom’s most useful photo editing tools. Learn what makes Lightroom one of the most powerful photographers’ tools!

Videos on these essential tools: Toolbox and Layout, Settings and Preferences, Getting started, The Crop Tool, The Red Eye Tool, Drawing and Painting, Color Sampler, Brush and Eraser Tools, Rectangular and Eliptical Marquee Tools, Transform Selection, Lasso Tools, Magnetic Lasso, Polygonal Lasso,...

Jay Pierstorff teaches Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) subscription version.

Go beyond the basics. Learn how to restore old photos, add color to black and white images, get a handle on layers, masks and overlays. Build amazing composite images and more. Each “Project” teaches you a new skill.

Go beyond the basics. Learn how to restore old photos, add color to black and white images, get a handle on layers, masks and overlays. Build amazing composite images and more. Each “Project” teaches you a new skill.

Something for everyone in this class, from beginner to advanced, you'll find some new ideas to enhance your photographs with "painterly" values. Some techniques are easy, some are more advanced but all are fun to do try!

Join Jay Pierstorff to learn how you can create your own personal or business website using the Wix.com platform in as little as one day!