In this post I will show you how to draw realistic crystals that nobody else is drawing. I’ll be showing you how to draw crystals in 7 simple steps that even my daughter can follow. Skip ahead to How to Draw Crystals Step By Step if you want to get straight to drawing. Every weekend…
All you will need to make Art Gallery labels is paper or card, glue and an inkjet or laser printer. At a minimum, all you really need are a couple of good quality markers like Copic markers or Sakura Micron pens instead of a printer. In any case, making art gallery labels is much easier…
Chances are your paint brushes are a large investment and you want to protect that investment after each use. Whether you are painting a house or are an artist, oil based paints and brushes share some quite common ingredients and materials and the cleaning techniques will work for either. In this article, we will be…
Over the years I have spent hundreds if not close to a thousand dollars collecting a huge range of Copic markers. Sadly I threw many away before learning that they could be refilled and refilled quite cheaply compared to purchasing a new Copic marker. If only someone had shown me how to refill Copic markers,…
Updated March 2023 Writing an Artist biography is probably one of the hardest things I have had to write. If you are reading this then I assume you are struggling with this as well. In this post we will attempt to answer many questions I have asked myself while providing some real world artist biography…
Updated March 2023 to include AI Art As an artist and entrepreneur I wanted find a way I could be making money with digital art and digital products and earning a passive income from my art. I researched ways I could make money from my existing artworks without having to make and sell original works…
I started selling my own art back in the 90’s, before there was any Instagram, before there was Google, before there was even the internet. All we had, were the gatekeepers running galleries and shady art dealers controlling which artists sell what. The ability to make money as an artist was very limited. There was…
How to erase Posca Markers on Most Surfaces – Having used Uni Posca Markers (also known as Posca Paint Pens) at home and in the studio for many years, and letting my 6 year old play with them I can tell you that I have had a lot of experience cleaning up after using them…
The answer to the question “how to tell a real lithograph from a print?” assumes you mean a mechanical print versus an artists’ hand-made lithograph print. This requires some magnification of the image because a lithographic ‘plate’ which is used to create the printed image is usually hand-made by an artist. Under magnification you can…
