The Perfect Painting Palette Series
Learn how to set up your painting palette to ensure your art images pop with luminosity and vibrancy. A tutorial that will help you master translating depth when painting foreground, middle ground, and backgrounds.
- The Many Hues of Color
- Best Palette Colors to Build Depth
- The Double Primary Palette
- Painting Blue and Cloudy Skies
- Mixing Colors for Painting the Background
- Painting Mountains
- How the Middle Ground Creates Harmony
- Stepping Into the Foreground
- Laying Down Foreground Foundations: Rocks, Tree Mounds, etc.
Graphic Design Basic Element Series
Learn the basic fundamental knowledge to assist you in developing your creative design ability.
The fourteen lessons walk you through the building blocks of graphic design and can be applied to all art mediums.
Each tutorial offers detailed explanation, visual learning guides, art exercises, additional learning resources, and downloadable materials.
- Introduction to Design
- Basic Design Descriptions & Shapes
- Basic Directions
- Basic Surfaces
- Basic Surface Enrichments
- Basic Picture Arranging Principles
- 5-Basic Relationships
- 5 Basic Removals
- 5 Depth Cues
- Division Principles of Basic Shapes
- Division Principles of Golden Rectangle
- Division Principles of Triangle
- Division Principle of Circle
- 7 Continuous Vertical Patterned Designs
Graphic Design Compositional Device Series
- Introduction to the 8 Basic Compositional Devices
- One Dominant Combinations
- Two Dominant Combination
- Pattern Combinations
- Negative Positive Combinations
- Movement Combinations
- Frame Combinations
- Perspective Combinations
- Chart of all 64 Compositional Device Variations
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Creative Online Tools
Learn about Adobe Express online tools. They offer great options that help with manipulating photos and videos for all your creative projects, and this resource is a much more affordable resource than Photoshop.
