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.

A little something to "exercise the mind" as the dictionary states is one definition for a puzzle. There will be online grid drawing puzzles for your enjoyment. After completing one drawing puzzle the realization that you can draw is sure to bring you excitement as to what your drawing future can bring with practice. Be it known that some puzzles will be upside down or right side up, some simple and some will be difficult.

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?

Grid Drawing Patterns for Art Lessons
Red Rose	Pinkish Rose	Yellow Lily	Single Rose

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.

A new Grid Drawing Pattern Package is sent with each Newsletter. Grid drawing patterns can be used with Draw-N-Paint's online art lessons. New pencil drawing and oil painting artist information is added to each package and web pages as the art lessons progress to completion. Join and Don't Miss Out on receiving your free grid art package.

Clouds - Big clouds, little clouds, either way they come in all kinds of different colors, shapes and sizes. We will be painting as many of them as we can.

Painting Dark Clouds With a Warm Sunshine

Yellow Sunsets

Flowers - Yellow, Red, Pink, Blue and every other colored flower I've missed. Pedals, stems and leaves of varies sizes too.

Yellow Lily

A summer flower with bright hues . Unspotted six pedals reach outward from the stem with two more buds awaiting to open. Shadow areas in this painting where brushed with Violet hues since the dominant color of Yellow is through out this painting. Blue-Violet, Red-Violet are the complementary colors across the color wheel from Yellow. This creates a richer painting versus brushing in shaded or shadowed areas in with dark Brown or Ivory Black oil paint.

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.

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