Top 5 You Tube Video Subscriptions for Aspiring Artists

Lachri Fine Arts has a fantastic YouTube channel. Lisa, the artist behind Lachri, posts videos four times a week. Don’t know how she gets any artwork done, but she manages…BRILLIANTLY. Lisa’s videos are clear, concise and to the point; she doesn’t waste your time with lots of b.s.

Weekly video schedule:
'Art Critiques' on Tuesdays
'Painting & Drawing Tutorials & Demos' on Wednesdays
'Social Media Tips for Artists' on Thursdays(LOVE this)
'Artist Vlogs' on Weekends

Really enjoyed trying Lisa's tutorial on water droplets

The Painting and Drawing Channel is sponsored by the SAA and has lots of great programs including ‘A Splash of Paint’ where episodes are separated into parts and cover five different topics. A fantastic older program is ‘Fraser and Friends’ where Fraser visits different artists and paints with them. You can find these programs listed on the paintinganddrawingchannel.

Will Kemp Art School - if you’ve been reading my blog regularly you will know that I’ve done the cherry painting and I even had a go at creating a YouTube video. That was not easy!!!! To view Will's videos, either go to his website or search in YouTube for his videos.

The Frugal Crafter by Linsay Weirich has watercolour videos of plants and birds along with other craft stuff. Linsay is currently creating a video a day but a lot are more journal related. From a past video I created a really pretty hibiscus;  watercolour paintings that I do on my own never come out as vibrant.

The Art Tutor is a new channel to me and so far so good. I watched a video on drawing negative space and have been practicing it…sorry not good enough to post. I’ve had lessons on this topic before, but this video helped me to reconcile the negative with the positive space.

Drawing & Painting Class – Tone and Edges w/ Joel

In Joel’s next drawing & painting class we worked on tone and mark making techniques. Starting with the same exercise from last trimester's class, we then chose a type of mark and used it to draw a rose from a photo. The decision on the mark type was made before we were told what we were drawing. Of course, I chose a difficult circular motion... as you can imagine my drawing didn’t go well. 

Didn’t finish the rose but instead started to draw the bust of a woman… this portraiture stuff might be for me. Creativity can be fickle, a few weeks of torture and then voila.

In the following class we were to concentrate on edges. Joel likes to paint people so there were mainly street scenes in his photographs. I really liked my choice and later found out that Joel painted the same photo in colour.   Don’t know if it’s the charcoal and erasing technique or the subject matter, but I loved this exercise.

It would be ironic if I wind up drawing people as an artist; when taking photographs, I’m always waiting for folks to move out of the way.