Category: How To Techniques & Materials
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How to Varnish Your Oil Paintings
Varnishing Oil Paintings Let’s talk Varnishing! Jerry’s LIVE crew are going to go over everything you need to know when it comes to varnishing your artwork, specifically oil paintings. What are the best practices.. apply the first varnish, dust free area, which brush is best to use. Varnishing Oil Paintings ; Dust and grime can…..
Jerry's -- 18/10/2021
Why choose a convertible style easel and what are the benefits
There are many styles of easels for art and artists to choose from. There are many options from h-frame to a-frame, single mast to double mast, French style to pochade boxes but what about a convertible or multi-angle easel? In this article we will explain the unique attributes of these types of easels and the…..
Jerry's -- 12/02/2020
How To Price Your Art To Sell
I’m in the dark as to how to price On one of our several nationwide art marketing forums recently, the question posed was,“Theresa, I’m in the dark as to how to price the pet portraits. I don’t know anyone around here who does pet portraits to see what they are charging. After you figure the…..
Jerry's -- 18/07/2019
Palette Knife Painting: Unique Techniques & Tips
Incorporating palette knives into your artwork can help infuse it with a unique brand of expressiveness. Before anything else however you must choose one whose shape and size cater suitably towards achieving specific effects desired by you. Would you like to imbibe your painting with a sculptural quality, but not quite sure how? Are you…..
Jerry's -- 21/03/2019
Basic Watercolor Skills Demo-Creating a Small Landscape
Jerry’s LIVE Episode #94 – Basic Watercolor Skills Demo- Creating a Small Landscape Using Watercolor Supplies Featuring: Turner Professional Watercolors Basic Watercolor Skills Demo – Take just the basic supplies needed to paint in watercolor: paint, paper, brushes, and a palette… and watch this basic watercolor LIVE demo of a small landscape! This event will…..
Jerry's -- 07/03/2019
Beginners Guide How To Colored Pencils & Supplies
Beginner: How To Colored Pencil Skills With Basic Supplies Featuring: Cezanne 72ct, Colored Pencils Set The Colored Pencil medium has always maintained popularity with illustrators, designers, and students, alike. However, it has risen as a fine art medium to a huge number of devotees, demanding lightfastness improvements of manufacturers and vast color ranges. But, what’s…..
Jerry's -- 27/02/2019
Art Decor Wood Picture Frames In White, Grey and More Colors
Enhance your walls with your own art in a great picture frame! Elegant and stylish art frames for your art from the Country Chic Frame Collection made exclusively by Jerry’s here in the USA. Made in the USA • No assembly required • Ready to hang • Includes hanging hardware When choosing picture frames for…..
Jerry's -- 08/02/2019
Acrylics Painting 101 for Beginners with Basic Supplies
What: Acrylic Painting 101 Video, Beginner Acrylic painting is a versatile and popular medium for artists of all skill levels. Acrylics 101 for Beginners with Basic Supplies When artists want to try new art supplies or a new medium, it can be hard to determine what you REALLY need (at bare minimum) to give it…..
Jerry's -- 31/01/2019
Color Theory 101 – Basic Mixing & Tips For Artists
Color Theory– what exactly is it? Is it color mixing? Quite simply, it IS that, but also so, so much more… Did you know even a fair amount of professional artists have never had a formal color theory (or maybe even a Color and Composition) class? Color theory is the study of how colors interact…..
Jerry's -- 24/01/2019
How to Prepare Canvas, Paper or Panel – Substrate Preparation
Jerry’s Live Episode #87 How To Prepare Canvas, Paper, Panel, Etc. For Your Medium Of Choice! Some artists buy low quality canvases or panels and never add additional primer when it screams for it. Then, there are those who buy exceptional quality, pre-primed substrates– only to add additional, low quality primer right over an existing,…..
Jerry's -- 17/01/2019
How To Frame Pastel & Charcoal Artwork
Jerry’s LIVE Episode #79: Framing Pastel and Charcoal Artwork – with Sam Buie If ever there were super tricky mediums that required some know-how to frame, pastels and charcoal would be it! These dry mediums dust, flake, and powder everywhere and can be just a mess to create, let alone with how to frame them…..
Jerry's -- 16/10/2018
Basic Beginning Pastel Skills
Outside of actual pastel artists, the word “pastel” to most of us brings to mind sidewalk chalk from elementary school or gummy oil pastels from middle school art class. But there are soft pastels that are a grown up, real fine art medium– favored by famed artists as Edgar Degas, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and…..
Jerry's -- 09/10/2018
Basic Watercolor Skills -Watercolor How-To, Lesson #1 Video
Basic Watercolor Skills -Jerry’s LIVE Episode #77 Jerry’s LIVE Episode 77: Always wanted to give watercolor a try, but wanted to learn more about it and maybe see a few techniques before wading in? Have the basic supplies but just never really gave it a go? Join us for this episode, to learn a little…..
Jerry's -- 03/10/2018
How To Thicken Your Oil Paints with Impasto Medium
In this article written by our expert in house artists on Impasto Medium, its uses, benefits and why use it, oil painters will now know hoe to properly thicken oils paints for thinker, impasto style paintings. Lets delve into understanding the medium of impasto, thicken oil paint, its applications, advantages and reasons, for utilizing it…..
Jerry's -- 12/09/2018
How To Make an Artist Website with WordPress
5 Easy Start/Set Up Steps for Artist Website Instructional Guide As an artist is very important to set up your very own website to market your self , have your works online, your bio and contact information so you can use to market yourself. In this presentation below we will show you 5 basic easy steps…..