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Lloyd Thibodeau
1901 Country Apple Court
Fountain Inn, SC 29644

Or email : mail@draw-n-paint.com



Drawing and Painting With Artist Grid Patterns.

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

Is it true? Am I forever banned from the beginning of first light never to express love with a graphite pencil or artist oil paints? Anyone who has desire to learn to draw or do artistic oil painting can! People have become doctors and lawyers by taking the time to learn! To be able to draw and paint one needs to take the time to learn and time for practice. Simple, bridge the time gap first starting with easy art so that you move on to learn from other levels of art sources.

Draw-N-Paint was created to help others know more about art skills. Within Draw-N-Paint you will find that it contains links to art resources for learning graphite pencil, colored pencil and oil painting techniques from. Draw-N-Paint's artist web site is based on art skills learned over the years with graphite pencils, colored pencils and artist oil paints. Artist grid drawing patterns are used as a starting points. Grids are tools used as a stepping stone to help see perspectives, distance, shapes and to help draw more realistically.


  Shading Light and Shadow

  Graphite Pencils

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



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  Floral Art Lessons 

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 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.








  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.


How do I keep out green when mixing paint colors of yellow and blue for a sunset sky?




  Art Lessons on Draw-N-Paint's Grid Patterns

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.




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What three colors make up the primary colors?




 
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Artist Grid Drawing Patterns

A fun and easy way to learn to draw is to use grid patterns. Many well known artist in the past have used grids for their own art works. Grid drawing patterns can help you to improve your artist drawing skills to see as an artist sees. Then advance in art by adding more realism to your art works with other artist techniques. Once you've become comfortable at your drawing skills you can then learn how to transfer your gridded images and then complete an art work of that image of that image in graphite pencils, colored pencils, watercolor or artist oil paints.


How to Do an Oil Painting of a Sunflower

In this art instruction we take a sunflower image and overlay it with a grid pattern. Once that is done the sunflower image is transferred to an artist oil painting canvas. A lot of the fun artsy stuff comes by doing the graphite pencil outline, the sketching, shading and then all the colored pencil techniques and on and on before we even pick up a paint brush. After having placed a good deal of art information about our sunflower subject in our artsy mind we do an artist oil painting. The ending art work is a scenic oil painting with a sunlit sky, hills in the distance, a river in the valley and one big beautiful yellow sunflower.


You can receive a Free grid pattern by filling out the Contact Form and place "Send Sunflower Pattern" in the comments field. I am very busy but within a day you will soon receive an email with a Free PDF file attached of the Sunflower grid pattern for this art lesson.

Vigilance of Caesar's Head

Caesar's Head State Park is located next to the Blue Ridge Mountains in upper Greenville County of South Carolina. An oil painting of a natural landmark. This is an oil painting of this natural landmark with panoramic views. The focus of the oil painting is to capture the sense of distance out into the horizon. Imagine standing in the same spot of this natural landmark and sensing the air moving around you. Viewing the light shining over the valley. See the awesome rock formation created from times gone by before man walked the earth. It is quite impressive and I hope the painting conveys these feelings when it is looked upon.


There is just something soothing about running water in a garden and listening to the trickling water during a summer afternoon. Doing a pencil drawing and then working on an oil painting of a bucket water fountain image with many flowers around it will enjoyable.

We'll draw a simple line image to get the size and shapes right and then after which we'll make a more detailed drawing of it. You can follow along as the pencil drawing art lesson is created.



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Move Over Oil Painting

An artist draws or paints what moves them from feelings generated from within the deep portions of themselves. In life outer surroundings effect the artist mind and this travels down into the heart to the seat of motivation. At times a strong motivating thought resides, moves and stays with a visual artist until a composition is completed to satisfaction. When this happens there is a need to release that motivation not with words but with artist oil paints. This is a painting of one of those motivating drives to draw and paint.

The end result of this painting is questionable. It depends on the people that will view this painting for years to come. Will these people interpret or sense the message being illustrated so that when they come upon a situation that they are involuntary reminded to act and do so?



Oil Painting Sunsets - When painting warm yellow glowing sunsets there are particular artist color blending dilemmas to be mindful of. Like what happens when we blend yellow oil paints and blue sky colors together? How do we avoid getting a green color mix? What are some ways to paint sunrays on water?

When painting sunsets there are some artist colors to have, Indian Yellow, Alizarin Crimson and Colbalt Blue.


Paintings & Giclee Prints

Fountain Inn Giclee Print
11" by 15.5" $34.00




Vigil Caesar's Head Giclee Print
16" by 22.875" $51.00







Five Star List

Artist books receiving a 5 star review with minimum of 5 or more reviews. An excellent list of art books for your library.


Graphite Pencils



Pencil Drawing Techniques

Drawing Made Easy: Lifelike Heads: Discover your

Keys to Drawing

Lifelike Drawing with Lee Hammond

Drawing Realistic Pets from Photographs

Perske Pencil Portraits: 1971-1990

Colored Pencils



Masterful Color: Vibrant Colored Pencil Paintings Layer by Layer

Colored Pencil Solution Book

Colored Pencil Portraits

Painting Light With Colored Pencil

The Colored Pencil: Key Concepts for Handling the Medium, Revised Edition (Practical Art Books)

Colored Pencil Explorations

The Complete Guide to Coloured Pencil Techniques






Oil Painting



The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted: Guided Lessons for Beginners and Experienced Artists

Oil Painting For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))

Problem Solving for Oil Painters: Recognizing What's Gone Wrong and How to Make It Right





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