The article excerpt below is from American Watercolor, and it’s for all my watercolor painting compatriots out there. I started out as an acrylic painter but grew to love watercolor as time went on. I learned techniques just like anyone else, and sometimes I use what I learned and sometimes…
Impressionism is my favorite art style (after abstraction) for so many reasons. This video helps to explain why it’s an important art movement, but it’s also important to know it’s still an important art movement and is enjoying a resurgence right now. There is a big resistance to…
It’s still warm enough in the South to get outdoors to get excited about new painting subjects. Take your camera or cell phone to capture scenes to paint, or set up your portable easel right outside. Either way you will find nature very inspirational, even if you don’t get out…
I recently joined the FASO artist community and my website there is Shellyfineart.com I have several paintings listed there for sale and they are not all the same ones that appear here on Fine Art South, though many of them art. FASO has a nice art marketing program and within…
Our New Year’s Art Sale continues on Fine Art south through February! Art is more than an interesting thing to look at. Any finished painting – of any genre – is the culmination of a series of decisions, big and small. Artists read and write articles about how and when…
This Watercolor Pencil Demo is a simplistic form of using watercolor pencils, but it’s great for people of all skill levels with watercolor because it gets you back to basics. Even if you are well-versed in watercolor methods, flexing your skills in a new way can make you look at…
This video is of artist Bill Davidson, and a portion of his landscape oil painting demo called “Painting Simplified.” It’s over an hour long, but the actual length of the DVD is over 7 hours, so it’s far from the entire video. However, you can get a good feel of…