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Mastering Color by artist Richard Robinson.

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Lloyd Thibodeau
1901 Country Apple Court
Fountain Inn, SC 29644

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If you like using these artist grid drawing patterns and art lessons, you can help at your desired amount. It is very much appreciated.
Most Recent Update to Draw-N-Paint May 12, 2012 1:58 PM

Added image of Seascape oil paintng I've been working on to my artist web site. There is some more artist brushing with ocean waves to be added the foreground. Really having fun with this oil painting. Going add an art lesson page on painting ocean waves.

Pencil Drawing

Artist Grid Drawing Patterns - page contains all the drawing patterns that have been created thus far and associated art lessons. You can easily download which ever artist pattern you like to work on for free. Would you like to do a grid drawing puzzle? You will find a slide show of a Daisy flower pattern that you can complete at your own pace.

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Pencil Drawing
    How to Draw a Spotted Leopards' Eye
    How to draw a Leopard eye.

    An art lesson where we'll use graphite pencils and then use colored pencils in drawing an eye with golden hues. Structural features of a Leopards eye will be mentioned to get a good understanding it characteristics.

Oil Painting
Sunbeams through clouds for After the Storm oil painting.
    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.
Big old bear looking out of a blueberry bush over a mountain landscape.
    Bear in the Blueberry Bush - An oil painting of wildlife in the great outdoors. A big old bear look out from a blueberry bush over the landscape with mountains in the background. One art item that this art lesson will help is in on how to oil paint blueberries with light reflections.
    Gerbera Daisy flower oil painting.
    Oil Painting the Gerbera Daisy Flower onto an Artist Canvas - Drawing a Gerbera Flower outline image onto a canvas using the grid method with watercolor pencils. You then brush on artist oil paints using rich colors of red, green and blue that are across the color wheel of each other. You can follow along to create a flower that looks as if you can be pluck it off your canvas.
Art Tutorials
How to pencil draw and oil paint stream rocks. 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
Yellow Lily flower oil painting. Yellow Lily Flower

A warm glowing sky is brushed in for the background on this flower painting. The golden light shines downward bringing warmth to the paintings composition. A warm lighted field rests just behind the flower adding more to a feeling of a cozy day. More art information can be viewed here on how to paint the flower by using the free downloadable grid drawing pattern.
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.
Buddy the humanized dog.

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
Caesars Head landmark oil painting. Caesar's Head Landmark
Move Over oil painting. Move Over
Water buoy for boats. Water Buoy
Oil landscape painting of Deer Overlook

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.
  • Water
    • Ocean Wave
    • Water drops
  • History of my Oil Paintings from Grid Images
Draw-N-Paint.com was created to help others learn art using the artist grid method.

Is it True? - You've got to be born an artist to draw?

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! On Draw-N-Paint you can use grid drawing patterns as artist tools to learn to draw with accuracy. Use the many grid drawing patterns as an encouraging first step to learning other art methods. It gives you a frame or place to begin from. 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 tons of art information to learn from many sources. Draw-N-Paint's is one of those sources and is not to recreate what other artist and art resources have wonderfully done. It is 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 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.


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 How to Draw & Paint Flowers with Grid Drawing Patterns 
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.



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