Painting Tutorials
Everybody can paint, but great paintings are not a common site. Although the art of painting can be learned, it must be taken into consideration how the legendary painters got their spot light. Great painters, like Leonardo Da Vinci, was born with a good talent, but it would be safe to say that even he, had a lot of practice first, a lot of trials and a lot of failures before becoming truly a grand master in painting. In the modern times, painting is not anymore as hard as before, considering the many painting tutorials available, that can guide an ordinary person into becoming a self taught great painter.
a) http://www.artshow.com/resources/painting.html
Artshow.com is a website that is totally dedicated to everything that is good in the world of art. The site is an online hub for modern time artist and art lovers. The site contains information about artist, art shows, art workshops, and tips and tutorials about art. In the tips and tutorials, a site visitor will be given links to resources that teach some basics about oil painting. The links lead to other websites that host the free tutorials posted by various artist about painting and with this great collection of references you are bound to find the right painting tutorial you are looking for.
b) http://www.andrewwhyte.com/painting/tutorials.htm
The website is owned by Andrew White an artist who is both a photographer and an oil painter. His website contains his own testimonies to his works of being a photographer and a painter. There are free resources for both painting and photography provided in this website. Andrew has put up an electronic book on the site that teaches the basic foundations, which an aspiring painter critically needs in order to be have a successful beginning in the learning of the art of oil painting. A link to the artist’s blog, which contains the latest about him can be found in the website.
c) http://www.martinridley.com/2_oil_painting_demonstration.html
This website is the official website of Martin Ridley, a veteran painter that has been painting for over 20 years now, focusing on wildlife themes. His paintings portray in elaborate detail his encounters in wildlife and his website offers to teach anybody who wants to know his methods in painting. Through this site interested parties can also buy Martin’s original wildlife paintings and further more they can request for any particular painting they want done that is not in the database yet, but it must be preferably about wildlife. The website is rich with the sample works of this particular artist.