"Mom & Baby Animal Acrylic Painting Tutorial Series" - Available on YouTube & Patreon - by Angela Anderson!

  

Check out our new "Mom & Baby Animal Painting Tutorial Series" Playlist on YouTube, and our Patreon (http://patreon.com/angelafineart) for more exclusive Animal Painting Tutorials!

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"Impressionist Woman with Flowers IV" Step-by-Step Painting Tutorial - Free on YouTube by Angela Anderson!

Our goal here at Thankful Art is to help you become the best painter you can be! :) Check out our latest step-by-step painting tutorial for free on YouTube - "Impressionist Woman with Flowers IV"! - https://youtu.be/xR_3qBGy1oQ

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"Impressionist Woman with Flowers" Step-by-Step Painting Tutorial - Free on YouTube by Angela Anderson!

Our goal here at Thankful Art is to help you become the best painter you can be! :) Check out our latest step-by-step painting tutorial for free on YouTube - "Impressionist Woman with Flowers"! - https://youtu.be/nBaFd14ql9w

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Christmas Themed Painting Tutorials

Check out this YouTube playlist of Christmas themed Free Acrylic Painting Tutorials by Angela Anderson! Hopefully these can make great gifts for your family and friends. :) Here is a link! - 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXKApvc4qSPCy4CLKVSQdv5qwAcLXNtdQ

Impressionist Floral Acrylic Painting Series

This is my newest series on YouTube. Hope you enjoy it!

Cardinal Acrylic Painting - Angelooney Winter Paint In Event

This is a very special Collaboration project I did with Cinnamon Cooney (the Art Sherpa). The Winter Paint In " art you can be proud of". Each artist has created a custom painting to teach live online. 

How to Draw a Cardinal

How to Paint a Cardinal (Live Show)

Cinnamon's Poinsettia 

Gerbera Daisy Acrylic Painting Tutorial Video for Beginners

I hope you like my newest painting video.  In it I explain how to paint a gerbera daisy using acrylics.  The hour-long video is split into two 30 minute segments and shows the process from beginning to end. Techniques shown include color mixing, floating, washes, dry brushing and more.

If you would like to paint along, you will need a 9"x12" canvas panel, water jar, paint palette (foam plate) and the following paints and brushes...

Paint colors used in this video (Liquitex Acrylic Basics, or equivalent):
Burnt Umber, Raw Sienna, Titanium White, Titanium Buff, Naples Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Deep, Light Pink, Magenta, Quinacridone Magenta, Alizarin Crimson, Light Blue Violet, Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Orange, Light Blue Permanent, Olive Green

Brushes used: Masters Touch #8 Bright & Loew-Cornell 3/4" Deerfoot Stippler

I would love to see your projects.  If you want to send me a photo please add the link in the comments below.  And if you enjoyed it please remember to give it a thumbs up "like" on YouTube.  Thanks!

 Part 1

Part 2

Fun Splatter Floral Paintings - Kid's Art Class

This week we did a floral landscape using Sponges, Q-Tips and Toothbrushes.  It was MESSY but fun.   We used the paintings of artist Yvonne Coomber as our inspiration.  Here is my video tutorial for this project.

Kid's Art Class - Floral Arrangement

The girls made floral arrangements today.   They painted their clay pots with acrylics and then filled them with floral foam and flowers.  Fun!

 

After School Art Class - Mixed Media Project

This week the girls in my after school art class did a mixed media project.

Materials used: 

• 9"x12" canvas panels
• 1/4" thick chipboard letter
• scrapbook papers with coordinating colors
• acrylic paint
• bubble wrap
• foam brush
• tacky glue
• scrapbook glue sticks
• ribbon
• scrapbook silk flowers
• rhinestone stickers
• buttons
• colored pens and pencils
• Stickles glitter glue

I had them start by picking 4 scrapbook papers to use as their inspiration.  

Then they chose a color for the background of the canvas and painted the sides of the letters to match.  

Bubble wrap was then painted with accent colors and pressed onto the panel to give the canvas an interesting texture.  

They traced the letters onto scrapbook paper and cut out hearts, stars and flowers out of coordinating papers.   

All that was left to do was glue and embellish with rhinestones, flowers, glitter pens and buttons!

The girls had a lot of fun with this one.  I love projects like this that can be personalized.  I think it is important for students to be given room for creative expression.  This was the perfect project for that!

 (Two students opted for peace signs instead of letters.  Unfortunately, I didn't get photos of both.  We used a tool to cut a circle out of paper.  The circle was then cut in a fork design to be used for the center part of the peace sign.  Then the outer edge of the remnant paper was cut about an inch from the edge of the opening to make the outer ring of the peace sign.  Ideally I would have liked to find a chipboard or wood peace sign to cover like we did with the letters, but this worked out well instead.)

After School Art Class - Peacock Feather Painting

I started my after school art class today.  We did a painting of a peacock feather.  I almost changed the project because I was afraid it would be too difficult (with all those lines and shading), but I think they did an amazing job!  

After School Art Lessons

I will be starting a new after school art class for ages 8 to 18 on September 20th.  Classes will be held every Tuesday from 4:15 - 5:45 pm at Hobby Lobby of Russellville, AR. Cost will be $20 per class or $200 for 12. 

Amazon Music Sale

Two of my favorite albums are on sale for $3.99 today.  Thought I'd pass along the links.  
I used the song "Heaven on Fire" from the Radio Dept. for one of my YouTube videos (below).  Their music is very unique, kinda dreamy retro.  Bon Iver's front man Justin Vernon has one of the most unusual voices I've heard.  It almost seems high and off key but in a good way. His melodys are gorgeous.  Take a listen....

Kid's Painting Class - Butterflies

Today we worked on some butterflies in my kid's painting class. Yesterday we did the backgrounds on the canvases using plastic wrap on the wet paint to give them fun texture.

The girls drew their butterflies and transfered them onto canvas with graphite paper then used paint and water soluble pencils to add fine details.  I think they turned out amazing!  The oldest in the class is 10 and the youngest is 7!  Pretty amazing talent!