Fine Art: Page 72

This Japanese brush painting demonstration shows the technique used to draw sumi-e ink maple leaves and a bird.

Illustrator/Character designer Joe Bluhm talks about his process and philosophy as he paints a caricature of Bill Murray (as Steve Zissou from the Wes Anderson film "The Life Aquatic...") as part of an illustration for a Canadian Pop Culture Magazine called the Naked Eye (available in USA, as well). Using Adobe Photoshop, Joe renders the face in very little time to demonstrate his approach to an entirely digital painting, with a cartoony and loose feel to the art.

Illustrator and Character designer Joe Bluhm goes over his thoughts and process while digitally painting an exaggerated animal sketch in Illustrator. You can apply these principles to any digital or traditional drawing mediums. Good video for people who learn visually with little verbal direction.

Joe Bluhm shows you how to draw a caricatures of Kanye West in Illustrator. The principles he covers are not related to illustrator but can be applied to other drawing softwares or traditional drawing and painting methods.

Demonstrated by expert artists, it is a comprehensive guide to all the basic skills and materials needed to paint a wide range of popular subjects, and packed with practical hints and tips.

Demonstrated by experts in the craft, it is full of practical hints and tips, as well as giving a guide to all the basic skills and materials that are needed to complete a range of stunning projects based on plain glass items.

Transform any fabric in minutes by using paint sticks to transfer a surface texture to the cloth. Watch as Laura Murray shows you how to use surface rubbings over a textured surface to create original and creative fashions.

The best evidence that UFOs represent spacecraft from other worlds consists of grainy photographs, blurry videos, and anecdotes about things that go bump in the night. In this episode Michael Shermer shows how easy it is to fake UFO photographs, enlisting the help of children and disposable cameras to create convincing photographic evidence that even fooled experts!

Part 1 of a three part video showing how to paint a tranquil harbourside scene in acrylics. Part 1 deals with the composition and tonal values. Part 2 continues by adding the base colours and developing aerial perspective. Part 3 concludes with the details and highlights.

Here I use lampworking to make the classic plunge dot bead. I use COE 104 soft-glass - dark purple, light purple, periwinkle and clear. Under 10 minutes with seconds to spare... Whew.. Enjoy!

This is my best guess at lampworking a borosilicate wine bottle stopper. This is just me winging it, I don't claim to be an expert. If you want to see what the pros do with this floral technique, look up Eugene Rain, Sabina Boehm, John Kobuki and many others.

This is a layered bead with a little swirl added to each end for a ocean wave effect, using COE 104 glass. Learn this great lampworking technique!

Ed shows us how to airbrush a wolf on a gas tank for a motorcycle.

This two part video shows you how to build a multi-color stringer for making beads for lampworking glass necklaces.

Mark Wallace explains how to use basic lighting principles and lighting equipment to set up a three light set up.

Mark Wallace explains the use of lighting equipment (grip, light modifiers, and light sources).

Mark Wallace explains the basic principles of light and how it relates to photography.

Mark Wallace explains shutter speed, sync speed, and key shifting by explaining basic flash photography.

This lampworking video will show you how to make a marble out of rods of glass.

We make a dragon scale bead for your necklace. Learn the lampworking process.

Make It Mine Magazine associate editor Tea Benduhn shows you how to make a mold using two-part silicon putty.

Watch this lampworking video series to learn how to make a glass blue tubing enclamo pipe. This style of pipe is nice because of the way it lays down - it doesn't look like a typical pipe.

Watch this two part lampworking video series to learn how to make a glass hollow donut pendant. Learn to coilpot some color and then make a donut and turn it into a pendant.

Watch this three part lampworking video series to learn how to make a glass pendant with an internal twist with dichroic on both sides.

Watch this two part video series to learn how to make a stretched and pulled dichroic glass pendant with lampworking.

Watch this two part lampworking video series to learn how to make a silver fumed glass pendant. The directions and visuals are clear.

Watch this video to learn how to unload film from your Holga camera. These instructions and visuals are clear and easy to understand!

Watch this video to learn how to load 35mm film in a Holga camera. Also, learn how to unload it in the darkroom. The instructions and visuals are clear and easy to understand.

This video demonstrates how to make a glass hummingbird bead with the lampworking method. Watch for efficient instructions and a very clear view of the process!

Watch this video to learn how to sharpen a lead knife. This is a good tip for people interested in making glass projects, such as stained glass, lampworking, etc.

Watch this video to learn how to cut circles in glass. This is a detailed demonstration for those who are interested in stained glass, or other glass projects. You must have glass cutting tools.

Watch this video for a detailed demonstration on three methods of cutting glass for stained glass making, or other projects.

Watch this three part lampworking video series to learn how to make a dichroic glass pendant. Dichrotic means two colored. Cut up a piece of backed dichro and use tweezers to shape it. This pendant is easy and quick to make!

Watch this four part lampworking video series to learn how to make a glass honeycomb pendant with air bubbles. This is a good sized pendant, using amber purple and then backed with turbo cobalt. Demonstration and instructions are clear.

Watch this video to learn how to do this stained glass technique of foiling textured glass.

Watch this video to learn how to melt drops of solder onto stained glass, a soldering copper foil technique.

Watch this video to learn how to score a thin strip of glass and break it off with a hand tool.

Watch this video to learn how to cut glass along a curvy score line using a hand tool.

Watch this visual demonstration of how to cut glass by scoring and breaking it on the table.

Learn how to make a spiky dog collar for your dog! This video demonstrates how to stud your collar.