Beginner portrait painting

Learn the art of creating vibrant and expressive portraits. Explore techniques to infuse life, emotion, and color into your artistic representations of people.

Painting skin tones in oil paint can be challenging, especially for beginners, but it can also be a very rewarding process. In this article,

Learn the art of capturing a striking portrait using minimal brushwork. Explore the techniques to convey depth and emotion with economy and precision in your artwork.

In a comment on one of my recent posts, someone used the phrase “art for profit” in an attempt to be negative. But rather than an insult, that’s a dream! I feel so incredibly lucky that my “work” is something I absolutely love—painting the fascinating, endless variety of human faces. And how great is it that something I love to create happens to be something that others value, too. As long as I can continue to elicit reactions like the one to this portrait—“omg, I freaking LOVE it!”—I’m…

Painting with watercolors for beginners. Learn how to create a watercolor portrait painting in this easy step by step watercolor portrait tutorial.

Discover the key role color temperature plays in painting skin tones that have a realistic 'life' to them. Along with how to start mixing skin tone colors!

Oil and acrylic painting of a mans face blurred out with colors

So how do you give people more dimension? You mix it up. Using a mixture of colors for your skin tones, you can achieve transparent, layered combinations that