The Elements...
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Painting with Impasto
Impasto refers to areas of raised paint that serve to give the artwork texture and form. The use of impasto sets even a very realistic depicted scene, apart from a...
Tone
Tone is one of the four fundamental pillars of drawing and painting. Tone refers to the level of lightness and darkness in a drawing or painting, and as an element,...
Understanding Colour
Colour is the most relative of the formal elements of art. That is to say that how a colour appears will be deeply affected by the colours around it. Understanding this...
Using Line for Drawing and Painting
Line is probably the element of drawing most familiar to people from an early age and is the building block for the development of drawing skills. A line is a simple...
