One of the hardest skills in painting has nothing to do with drawing, color mixing, or learning how to use a particular brush. It is knowing when to stop touching the canvas. You create a beautiful sky, but then decide it needs one more blend. You paint an expressive tree, but add another layer of… [Read more]
Girl Reaching for a Blue Balloon 🎈 Step-by-Step Acrylic Painting Tutorial Part 1 — Building the Atmospheric Concrete Wall and Pavement There is something especially powerful about beginning a painting without immediately painting the main subject. In Girl Reaching for a Blue Balloon, the little girl and brilliant Prussian Blue balloon eventually become the obvious… [Read more]
🎨 Brushes:https://urartstudio.com/product-category/brushes/ Journey into a quiet, mysterious landscape where a lone rider travels through misty water toward a brilliant red tree. Surrounded by soft monochromatic mountains, distant waterfalls, reflections, and atmospheric haze, the intense red foliage becomes the emotional focal point of the entire painting. In this acrylic painting video, we explore how a limited… [Read more]
🎨 Brushes:https://urartstudio.com/product-category/brushes/ A quiet figure rests beneath an old tree as the wind moves through the golden field, carrying autumn leaves across a soft lavender-pink sky. Whispers in the Wind is an atmospheric acrylic painting about stillness, movement, solitude, and the peaceful connection we can find in nature. In this painting video, we explore a… [Read more]
Trees are among the most enjoyable subjects to paint—and among the easiest to accidentally make look artificial. You begin with a trunk, add a few branches, fill the top with green, add some lighter green highlights, and technically everything is there. Yet the finished tree may still look stiff, flat, overly symmetrical, or strangely disconnected… [Read more]
🎨 Brushes:https://urartstudio.com/product-category/brushes/ Step into a quiet, mysterious world with The Secret Garden Door—a dreamy acrylic painting filled with brilliant crimson foliage, soft atmospheric light, delicate flowers, and an inviting doorway that seems to lead somewhere unknown. 🌹✨🎨 In this painting tutorial, watch the scene gradually come to life as a dramatic red tree stretches across… [Read more]
Acrylic painting should feel creative, but sometimes it feels as though the paint is fighting you every step of the way. Your colors dry before you can blend them. The sky becomes streaky. Your highlights won’t cover the layer underneath. The paint feels sticky. Your trees look stamped onto the canvas. You keep adding details,… [Read more]
Learn **4 different ways to paint mountains with acrylics** in this full-length painting tutorial from URARTSTUDIO! 🎨🏔️ In this lesson, we explore four completely different mountain styles—from dramatic **snow-covered rocky peaks** to lush green mountains, peaceful grassy highlands, and rugged cliffs touched with snow. Rather than creating one large landscape, this tutorial focuses on individual… [Read more]
Watch this mysterious Samurai Warrior emerge from an atmospheric abstract background! ⚔️🎨 Created with acrylic paint, brushes, fingers, and expressive techniques, this painting combines a dramatic samurai silhouette with warm earthy colors, distressed textures, bold abstract marks, and energetic splatter. Finger painting helps shape, blend, and subtract color from the samurai, while brushes add expressive… [Read more]
PART 1 — Preparing the Canvas and Building the Textured Monochrome Background This painting is built around a very simple idea: use only black, white, and the grays created between them, then combine traditional brushwork with direct finger painting. The butterfly eventually becomes the strongest focal point, but the background is just as important. Instead… [Read more]
BEFORE YOU BEGIN CANVAS PREPARATION Use a 12 x 14 inch canvas. For this painting, begin with a previously painted or pre-colored dark canvas. Any dark acrylic color can work. The important thing is that the surface is completely dry before beginning the actual painting. A deep green, dark brown, charcoal, black-green, or another muted… [Read more]
PART 1 – PREPARING THE CANVAS AND CREATING THE AGED GOLD ABSTRACT BACKGROUND This Samurai Warrior painting begins with a background that is just as important as the figure itself. Before the samurai appears, we create a warm, distressed, atmospheric surface that looks aged, weathered, smoky, and almost archaeological. The goal is not to paint… [Read more]
BRUSHES – https://urartstudio.com/product-category/brushes/ watch this art video: Create a dramatic Native American-inspired figure beneath a glowing moon in this atmospheric acrylic painting demonstration. Using a deep dark-green background with strong black-and-white contrasts, this painting explores silhouette, expressive highlights, moonlight, texture, and dramatic composition. Follow the painting process as the figure gradually emerges from the darkness,… [Read more]
Paint this expressive green bison on an olive green background using only black, olive green, and white acrylic paint. I block in the entire painting with my Big Oval Brush, add details with filbert brushes, and finish the foreground grass using a custom bristle brush. A simple technique with beautiful results! BRUSHES – https://urartstudio.com/product-category/brushes/PAINTING TIPS… [Read more]
Part 1 – Background, Trees, Fence & Flower Foundations Welcome to SUMMER PATH, a vibrant acrylic landscape filled with bold color, rich texture, and expressive brushwork. In this lesson, you’ll create a beautiful flowering garden bursting with brilliant crimson trees, lush green foliage, soft pink flowering shrubs, and glowing yellow bushes, all surrounding a quiet… [Read more]
Discover Beautiful Acrylic Painting Projects You Can Create Step by Step Starting acrylic painting is one of the most rewarding creative hobbies you can choose. Acrylic paints are vibrant, easy to use, fast drying, and incredibly versatile. Whether you’re picking up a paintbrush for the very first time or returning after years away, every finished… [Read more]
Bring a breathtaking winter landscape to life in this step-by-step acrylic painting tutorial! In this lesson, you’ll learn how to paint a glowing icy mountain path winding through majestic snow-covered peaks beneath a dramatic, colorful sky using easy-to-follow oval brush techniques. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, I’ll guide you through blending vibrant… [Read more]
“Paint a breathtaking Iceberg Beneath a Magnificent Sky ❄️ in this step-by-step acrylic painting tutorial. Learn how to create glowing clouds, dramatic skies, shimmering reflections, and icy textures using Oval Brush Art techniques. Perfect for beginners and experienced artists looking to expand their landscape painting skills. 🎨🖼️” * Paintbrushes – https://urartstudio.com/product-category/brushes/* Painting Tips: https://urartstudio.com/painting-tips/* Painting… [Read more]
BRUSHES – https://urartstudio.com/product-category/brushes/PAINTING TIPS – https://urartstudio.com/painting-tips/VIRTUAL GALLERY – https://urartstudio.com/painting-display-in-virtual-room/COLORS: black, white, prussian blue, mars brown, burnt sienna, prussian blue, yellow ochre, indian yellow Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of acrylic landscape painting with the mesmerizing tutorial, “Painting a Serene Forest Waterfall: Step-by-Step Acrylic Tutorial for Beginners.” Join the artistic journey as vibrant hues and… [Read more]
Late Autumn Path: Rusty Forest – https://youtu.be/yUXiv7qVE3M BRUSHES – https://urartstudio.com/product-category/art-supply/brushes/PAINTING TIPS – https://urartstudio.com/painting-tips/COLORS: black, white, raw umber, burnt sienna Embark on a mesmerizing artistic journey with URARTSTUDIO’s latest painting demo, “Autumn Path: Rusty Forest.” Immerse yourself in a world where late autumn paints the landscape in enchanting shades of brown and rusty hues. As the… [Read more]
Welcome to a colorful journey packed with creativity, inspiration, and expert painting techniques! Follow along to create an enchanting “Flower and a Frog” acrylic painting through this free online art tutorial designed for beginners and seasoned artists alike. Unleash your inner painter and let your imagination transform into mesmerizing art! 🎨 Step-by-Step Guide for Crafting… [Read more]
