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Lloyd Thibodeau
1901 Country Apple Court
Fountain Inn, SC 29644

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After the Storm - Generally right after a storm begins to break up you can see sun rays brightening up the sky through the remaining gray clouds and shine as a beacon down onto the landscape or seascape. This is a short art lesson on how to oil paint rays of light.

Art Tutorials
	Rounded Riverbed Stones Here's a type of stone that is most often associated with streams or rivers that is fun to paint. Small, medium or large they all have one characteristic amongst themselves of being rounded. Downloadable PDF File Art Practice Sheet Riverbed Practice Sheet.pdf
Artist Oil Paintings
	Clouds with Color One of my early renderings of a cloud formation from one evening as the setting sunrays was lighting upon it's misty vapors. I will be repainting this cloudy scene in the future but for now this art lesson page contains artist information with step by step images as to it's creation.
	Artwork Buddy the Humanized Pet Information on how an image of Buddy was placed under a transparent overlay was added. This is something you can do with an image of one of your own loveable pets and do an artist rendering also.
	Bulls Bridge
	Caesar's Head Landmark
	Move Over
	Water Buoy
	Deer Overlook A landscape oil painting from the side of mountain viewing out into the valley below. The cloudy blue sky and mountains with a waterfall have been painted in. Background trees are the next step to be brushed in.

The focus of Draw-N-Paint.com is to help others learn to draw by using the grid method.

Is That Statement True - You have to be born an artist to draw?

Is it true? Are you forever banned from the beginning of first light never to express and share your artistic thoughts to others? Be it with artist pencils or paints, anyone who has desire to learn to draw or do artistic painting can! Grid drawing patterns are artist tools used for learning to draw with accuracy. Drawing grids are an encouraging first step to learning other art methods for drawing. Then when you feel comfortable move onto more advanced artist techniques.

Draw-N-Paint was created to share the art knowledge of pencil drawing and oil painting I've learned over the years. So as new art methods are learned these are added to Draw-N-Paint's art web site. There's a ton of art information to learn from. Draw-N-Paint's web site is not to recreate what other artist and art resources have wonderfully done but only to show you what was learned from applying these art instructions. Within Draw-N-Paint you will find art information for learning graphite pencil, colored pencils and oil painting with links to many artist resources.

From the many free artist grid drawing patterns you can download, use these as a starting tool to progress to other levels of art education. That what a grid is, an artist tool used to help see perspectives, distances, shapes and with practice to be able to draw more realistically. Here you'll find art knowledge learned of new art concepts and then updated continually so check back often.

 How to Draw & Paint Flowers with Drawing Grids 
Flowers, flowers everywhere. So many vary in blues, yellows, pinks and countless of other colors. Flowers have untold numbers of textures, shapes and sizes giving each artist canvas an opportunity for a unique painting. For floral's, think about how many shades of green there are! Then reflect on those green hues are in different lights and shadows. There's an infinite number of combinations of painting green and this means your paintbrush is busy with many variations in color mixes.

Grid drawing patterns are used for each floral art lesson as a starting point. We build on what we've learned with graphite pencils first. Using that knowledge we move on to colored pencils. Taking the art principles and art techniques acquired in those two lessons we roll them into an oil painting lesson where everyone creates a special unique work of art of their own.

 Graphite Pencil Information After drawing the outline of your subject there are certain lighting and shading effects that can make your art subject appear be drawn more realistically. The Shading, Light and Shadow section informs on some of these art principles when rendering pencil drawings.

For the Shading - Light and Shadow lesson we look at different elements used by many artist to make art works look more realistic bringing them to life. There is reflected light, full light and cast shadow just to name a few. Do you know where they are in your art subjects?

 Help on Draw-N-Paint's Drawing Grids
Here you will find information on how to use Draw-N-Paint's grid patterns that are offered for free on this artist learning site. These grid patterns are/will be for online art lessons in graphite, colored pencils and oil paints of the image on the grid pattern.

 Sky Subject Art Lessons
And a little one may say this is where elephants, lions, tigers and bears come from. Up high above in the sky the imagination is set free to let what ever cloud you see be what it will be.

Some clouds will glow from the days warm sunlight. Some clouds will reflect sunset colors more than a rainbow. Some clouds will be as an approaching menacing dark storm. Any way you paint them clouds are ever changing and can bring your paintings to life as you brush them on the canvas.

Grid Drawing Puzzles to Learn From
A puzzle is a little something to exercise the mind as the dictionary puts it. Sharpen your pencil and try an online grid drawing puzzle for enjoyment and expand your drawing techniques. After completing a grid drawing puzzle the realization that you can draw is sure to bring you encouragement to continue learning art. With practice you can learn to see shapes, negative space and find that your drawings can be made to look more realistic to your art subject.