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With the basic lessons completed, further drawing lessons focus on composition, measurements and proportions, sketching, organizing and simplifying complex subjects, and combining references.

Among all forms of painting and drawing, the principal challenges are the same. These drawing lessons let us focus on the basic elements essential to developing our own artistic expression.

Watercolor is a romantic painting medium. It is fun, adventurous, and always full of surprises. Through this library you will master watercolor techniques and different painting approaches.

Take the techniques learned in basic watercolor to paint liquids in glass, to represent folds, steam and flames, to identify and organize local color, and to capture cast shadows and highlights.

Flower is always a favorite subject in paintings across all mediums. Light, shapes, translucency, and color reflecting to each other give us endless challenges and inspiration for compositon.

Animals are fun to study and paint. It does not matter what the subject of your painting is, we are creating artwork, fashioning and balancing visual elements to express our feelings.

Painting portraiture in watercolor requires the most discipline. We need to create a likeness of the person, we also need to capture the personality. It's the most challenging and fun.

Portraiture is a subject among many others in drawing and painting. After we learn the fundamental observational skills for portrait drawing, portrait painting will no longer be a mystery

Landscape painting has a collection is full of both challenges and freedom. Focuses include separating the background, mid-ground and foreground and creating space and relationships.

This library include the short tutorials of basic techniques of drawing and painting portrait. If you are new to drawing people, you may also like to check out the Drawing Fountamentals library.

Here you will find the lessons regards opaque painting and the painting of different subject matter. It includes lessons in oil, acrylic, gouache, pastel and other opaque painting mediums.

This library include the full lessons of landscape, seascape and cityscape that use oil, acrylic, gouache, pastel and other opaque painting mediums. For short videos visit our EnjoyingartMagic channel.

This library include the full lessons of flowers and still-life that use oil, acrylic, gouache, pastel and other opaque painting mediums. For short videos visit our EnjoyingartMagic channel.

This library include the full lessons of animals that use oil, acrylic, gouache, pastel and other opaque painting mediums. For short videos visit our EnjoyingartMagic channel.

This library include the full lessons of landscape, seascape and cityscape that use oil, acrylic, gouache, pastel and other opaque painting mediums. For short videos visit our EnjoyingartMagic channel.

If you like to sketch with pen, colored pencils, ink brushes, combined with watercolor washes, this library will be for you when they are outdoors, traveling and in life-painting sessions.

This library is a collection of critiques and reviews for our members' paintings. Each critique was targeted to a particular challenge with solutions for the problems the painting presented.

Perspectives in art include one-point, two-point, three-point, and aerial perspective. When you master the basics of perspectives, your creativity may be advanced to the next level.

If you find painting landscape fun or challenging, you will find something in this library. 32 reviews of member's landscape paintings on how to improve composition and perspectives.

This collection of lessons includes techniques and methods to capture the essence in different poses of human figure. If you like figure drawing and painting, learn the basics here.

Drawing and painting using digital tools, like using app Procreate on an iPad give us extra convenience to be able to practice our artistic expression and observational skills wherever we are.

These lessons are more a sharing of my ideas, creative process and connection, and my personal art projects. I also share my new discoveries in the area of drawing, painting, and life