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Tips, Tricks, Thoughts, and inspiration from across the art spectrum.

Value Study

Value Study

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Today I'd like to show you how I do value studies to then add them to a watercolor painting. Most people don't like doing value studies I know or little...

Value Study

CJAS Staff

Today I'd like to show you how I do value studies to then add them to a watercolor painting. Most people don't like doing value studies I know or little...

Setting Up Your Watercolor Table

Setting Up Your Watercolor Table

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Cheap Joe Miller demonstrates how he sets up his studio table for doing watercolor paintings. He show the correct set up to make you more efficient while doing watercolor paintings.

Setting Up Your Watercolor Table

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Cheap Joe Miller demonstrates how he sets up his studio table for doing watercolor paintings. He show the correct set up to make you more efficient while doing watercolor paintings.

Setting Up Your Watercolor Palette

Setting Up Your Watercolor Palette

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Hi, I'm Joe from Cheap Joe's. I'm going to show you how I set up my watercolor palette in hope that if you need help setting yours up it will...

Setting Up Your Watercolor Palette

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Hi, I'm Joe from Cheap Joe's. I'm going to show you how I set up my watercolor palette in hope that if you need help setting yours up it will...

Interview with Mary Ann Beckwith

Interview with Mary Ann Beckwith

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I'm Joe with Cheap Joe's Art Stuff and I'm very honored to have with me this morning Mary Ann Beckwith - who's our workshop instructor this week and this is...

Interview with Mary Ann Beckwith

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I'm Joe with Cheap Joe's Art Stuff and I'm very honored to have with me this morning Mary Ann Beckwith - who's our workshop instructor this week and this is...

Carmella Jarvi: Pastel Painting a Woman in Water

Carmella Jarvi: Pastel Painting a Woman in Water

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In this segment I'm going to walk you through one of my women swimming in water pastel paintings. This is a series I'm known the best for and I've been...

Carmella Jarvi: Pastel Painting a Woman in Water

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In this segment I'm going to walk you through one of my women swimming in water pastel paintings. This is a series I'm known the best for and I've been...

Carmella Jarvi: Pastel Painting Water in Landscape

Carmella Jarvi: Pastel Painting Water in Landscape

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In this segment, I'm going to show you how I go about painting one of my water in landscape pieces. This time I'm starting with a photograph that I shot...

Carmella Jarvi: Pastel Painting Water in Landscape

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In this segment, I'm going to show you how I go about painting one of my water in landscape pieces. This time I'm starting with a photograph that I shot...

Carmella Jarvi: Mounting Surfaces with Pastel Painting

Carmella Jarvi: Mounting Surfaces with Pastel P...

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We've talked about some of the different surfaces for pastel. There's paper, Gatorfoam, stiff boards, using your color theory and not using light colors. So in this video

Carmella Jarvi: Mounting Surfaces with Pastel P...

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We've talked about some of the different surfaces for pastel. There's paper, Gatorfoam, stiff boards, using your color theory and not using light colors. So in this video

Carmella Jarvi: Composition and Colors in Pastel Painting

Carmella Jarvi: Composition and Colors in Paste...

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We've talked about some of the different surfaces for pastel. There's paper, Gatorfoam, stiff boards, using your color theory and not using light colors. So in this one

Carmella Jarvi: Composition and Colors in Paste...

CJAS Staff

We've talked about some of the different surfaces for pastel. There's paper, Gatorfoam, stiff boards, using your color theory and not using light colors. So in this one

Painting Figures by Frank Francese

Painting Figures by Frank Francese

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When I paint my city scenes, I like to include human interest - groups of people doing various things like walking, lifting, standing on a corner

Painting Figures by Frank Francese

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When I paint my city scenes, I like to include human interest - groups of people doing various things like walking, lifting, standing on a corner

Painting City Scenes by Frank Francese

Painting City Scenes by Frank Francese

I would like to show you how to quickly put a city scene together using a big brush, bold colors, interesting shapes, people and cars using the exercises I showed...

Painting City Scenes by Frank Francese

I would like to show you how to quickly put a city scene together using a big brush, bold colors, interesting shapes, people and cars using the exercises I showed...

Painting Nature Scenes by Frank Francese

Painting Nature Scenes by Frank Francese

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I learned my craft by painting local nature scenes. I would go out on location and just take some color and start laying it in. I really like Aspen trees...

Painting Nature Scenes by Frank Francese

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I learned my craft by painting local nature scenes. I would go out on location and just take some color and start laying it in. I really like Aspen trees...

Painting Automobiles by Frank Francese

Painting Automobiles by Frank Francese

I would like to show you how to quickly put a city scene together using a big brush, bold colors, interesting shapes, people and cars using the exercises I showed...

Painting Automobiles by Frank Francese

I would like to show you how to quickly put a city scene together using a big brush, bold colors, interesting shapes, people and cars using the exercises I showed...