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Jun 27, 2023 · We look at 23 different YouTube channels that teach you how to paint. These acrylic, oil, and watercolor painting tutorials let you learn at your own pace.
- Painting Videos For All Mediums
- Acrylic Painting Videos
- Gouache Painting Videos
- Oil Painting Videos
- Watercolor Painting Videos
- Egg Tempera Painting Videos
- Casein Painting Videos
- Acrylic Pouring
- Resin Painting
1. The Biggest Art Mistakes in Drawing & Painting
Jared Cullum shares the biggest mistakes he made when learning to paint and that he sees among the students in his workshops. 10 minutes
2. Five Visual Design Elements to Improve Any Painting
Click here to watch on YouTube Mark Mehaffey shares five tips on creating better compositions. This video is a clip from his DVD watercolor workshop, but still contains valuable information for all artists. 10 minutes
3. How to Find Your Own Oil Painting Style
Click here to watch on YouTube Steve Atkinson of Draw Paint Repeat talks about finding your painting style while he paints a rockscape from a photo reference. The painting is in oils, but the artist’s comments on finding your painting style apply equally well to acrylic painting, watercolor painting, and any other art medium. 22 minutes
6. Ten mistakes beginners make in Acrylic Painting – Painting Tips with Lachri
Click here to watch on YouTube Lisa Clough of Lachri Fine Art talks about the ten mistakes she sees most frequently among her students. She also shares ways to overcome those mistakes or avoid them altogether. Lisa is a multi-media artist with many excellent tutorial videos on painting animals, still lifes, and other subjects in acrylics. 21 minutes
7. Five Tips You Should Always Do When Using Acrylic Paint Clive5Art
Click here to watch on YouTube Now that you’ve seen what you shouldn’t do when painting with acrylics, how about five tips on things you should always do for every painting? Each step in preparing to paint is demonstrated as well as described. You can’t go wrong with these tips. 12 minutes
8. Acrylic Painting Techniques – Light & Shade
Will Kemp of Will Kemp Art School demonstrates painting form with a simple still-life study of an apple. Kemp starts with toning the canvas, then paints a rough underpainting, develops detail, and finally adds glazes for the finishing touches to paint an apple study in a classical style. There are two videos in the series. Part 1: 23 minutes Part 2: 5 minutes
13. My Top 5 Gouache Tips! Gouache for Beginners
Click here to watch on YouTube What five things do you need to know before you begin painting with gouache? Watch this short video to learn more about paint, brushes, and more. 14 minutes
14. How to Use Gouache//Tutorial for Beginners – Tea to Butter Method
Interested in learning gouache? Mary Sanche’s fifteen-minute video provides basic information on diluting the paint, laying down an underpainting, and layering paint for saturation and detail. The artist also makes suggestions on when to use opaque color and when to leave areas more transparent. 16 minutes How to Use Gouache//Tutorial for Beginners – Tips for Painting Gradient Washesis an excellent follow-up video by the same artist. Mary also has several tutorial videos on using gouache for...
15. Gouache Techniques: Tiling, Grisaille, and Mid-Tone Methods
Click here to watch on YouTube Hajra Meeks shares three methods of painting with gouache. She also talks about some of the differences between gouache and other mediums such as watercolors and oils. 9 minutes
22. Oil Painting for Beginners Part 1 – Basic Techniques + Step by Step Demonstration
Florent Farges covers the basics of oil painting beginning with reasons to try oil painting instead of watercolor or other painting mediums. Florent also shares opinions about why oil painting is perceived to be complicated, and why that doesn’t have to be true. The video also includes a demonstration of painting a human eye in a realistic style. 29 minutes
23. Oil Painting Tips – Tutorial with Step-by-Step Information
Click here to watch on YouTube This real-time video features Flemish artist, Martijn Versteeg (Figurative Hyperrealism) painting a hand study on paper. The video is captioned with color information, mixing suggestions, and other tips from his palette and color mixing methods to paint application and blending. 16 minutes
24. How to Paint Portraits: Episode One Russell Petherbridge’s Portrait
Andrew Tischler paints an oil sketch from life, then develops a studio portrait based on that sketch and photographs of his model. He describes the thinking behind his painting method, color choices, and correcting a portrait that goes astray. This video is the first in a series of seven videos in The Great Art Adventure series. Subjects range from Tischler’s life-like portraits to birds, landscapes from New Zealand, and seascapes from the west coast of Australia. 17 minutes
32. Try These 2 Simple Tricks for Easy Watercolor Clouds
Click here to watch on YouTube Artist Steve Mitchell of The Mind of Watercolor shares two very easy ways to paint clouds with watercolor. These techniques are ideal for adding a sky to complex landscapes and/or painting skies and clouds en plein air. 17 minutes
33. Watercolor Painting Ideas for Beginners | Wet into Wet | Art Journal Thursday, Episode 39
Click here to Watch on YouTube Learn three ways to use the wet-into-wet method of watercolor painting to create small studies. They are great painting exercises for mixing water and watercolor, no matter what your level of expertise. 9 minutes
34. 12 Watercolor Hacks You Need to Know
Click here to watch on YouTube Kirsty Partridge shares 12 hacks to take your watercolor work to the next level. You may already know about—and use—some of them, but you’re also certain to learn something new to improve your watercolor painting. 16 minutes
41. Egg Tempera from Start to Finish by Fergus A. Ryan
Click to watch on YouTube Fergus A. Ryan describes the process of painting with egg tempera paints. The video begins with a brief history of egg tempera painting, including Ryan’s methods for making his paint and gesso, then follows him through the painting process. 23 minutes
42. Colin Fraser artworks in Egg Tempera
Colin Fraser talks about his work, his working methods, and the motivations of an artist. He also talks about his chosen medium, its drawbacks, and its paybacks. This is not a tutorial video, but it is an inspiring one, no matter what medium you prefer. 11 minutes
43. Casein Painting in the Wild
Click to watch on YouTube This short video is a trailer for a much more involved video series by artist James Gurney. It was not my intent to include “sales videos” but there’s enough information in the trailers to introduce you to casein paints and casein painting if you’re not already familiar with it. Gurney also has many other casein painting videos in his Casein Painting playlist. Each video addresses some aspect of painting in general and casein painting specifically. Length ranges from...
44. Casein Quick Paint
Click to watch on YouTube This is the first in a series of short, time-lapse videos highlighting the quick casein studies of Cliff Cramp. He paints in studio and on location using casein. Videos range in length from just under three minutes to nearly five minutes, so you get a quick look at several subjects.
45. Casein Paint Sketching Tutorial Demonstration: Vintage Radio Flyer Tricycle
Jared Loves to Draw artist Jared Cullum narrates this time-lapse casein painting demonstration in casein. 2 minutes
47. Deco Art Acrylic Pouring Tips & Techniques – Lachri
Lisa Clough of Lachri Fine Art does four small acrylic pours in an art deco style. The video includes lots of tips and technique suggestions for artists who have never done acrylic pours before. 32 minutes
48. Acrylic Pouring for Beginners – Step-by-Step – Chakra Colors
Click to watch on YouTube See how to do an acrylic pour from preparing the colors to varnishing and signing the finished painting. The video is mostly real-time but contains captions to describe what’s being done. 18 minutes
49. Acrylic Drip Painting with Syringe – You Have to Try That!
Click to watch on YouTube See in real-time how to paint with acrylics using syringes to apply the paint into wet acrylic on stretched canvas. Mostly real-time with some informative captioning. 6 minutes
50. Resin Painting for Beginners
Learn everything you need to know about resin painting in this 17-minute video covering resins, hardeners, additives, and methods. 17 minutes
51. Easy Epoxy Resin Beach Art Using Real Sand!
Click to watch on YouTube Australian artist Sue Findley mixes actual beach sand with clear resin to create beach art that includes the beach. The video is a time-lapse, but Sue tells what she’s doing and why throughout the video, which includes two projects. 9 minutes This post may contain affiliate links.
These days, though, learning to paint is as easy as firing up a browser and watching one of countless different watercolor videos online. Videos are amazing for learning. They allow you to go at your own pace, to pause and rewind whenever you miss anything and to see the technique demonstrated visually…often in high definition.
Jan 29, 2020 · By Carrie Lewis in Art Tutorials > Video Tutorials Last year I put together a couple of articles listing some of the best YouTube art videos for beginning and intermediate artists. One article focused on painting videos while the other shared my favorite sketching and drawing lessons on YouTube. As I was researching those posts, I found a few YouTube channels with so much great content that I ...
