Art Prof

Teaching Artists Jordan McCracken-Foster and Cat Huang discuss fan art from their own experiences drawing fan art during their childhood to the role fan art has in their lives today as professional artists. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Chyk39QHIME. Related topics such as selling fan art, copyright, and more are explored as well.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Lauryn Welch explain types of paint used in art: oil, acrylic, flashe acrylic, encaustic, casein, mixed media, fresco, outdoor paints, egg tempera, air brush, ink, enamel, oil bars, gouache, acryl gouache, and watercolor. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7BcLna8cTqQ. This is part 1 of our painting curriculum for self-taught artists. 

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Cat Lauryn Welch and Jordan McCracken-Foster talk about the logistics of working as a professional artist and being your own boss. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/v-A_ugrrolM. They provide important concrete tips on how to stay organized in terms of your schedule, using spreadsheets to keep track of expenses and payments for freelance projects, and more.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu demonstrates a wide range of techniques and tools for creating abstract paintings in acrylic paint. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/g0nI9jroKX8. Prof Lieu shows how to create many visual effects in acrylic paint like how to achieve various types of textures, lines, strokes, and other unconventional tools. All of these techniques can be used to create a visual language to create abstract paintings.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu critique artist Instagrams by Varun Tulsyan and Manasvi Singh. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rq2DZqLDzEA. Prof Lieu navigates through these sites, identifying aspects such as the photographs, text captions, the flow and diversity of content, that need adjustments or a new approach.

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Hang out with Art Prof Clara Lieu while you work on your artwork! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-8s9rKxlUOM Chat about any art related topic, ask a question artists, materials, techniques, discuss artist wellness, or any other struggles you might be having as an artist.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Cat Huang explain the differences between artificial light and natural light in illustrations, paintings, films, animation and more. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/k9rOmcspxBQ. Prof Lieu and Cat show how natural lighting and artificial lighting create different visual affects and how that can impact the story or mood of an artwork.

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The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/artprofcreatecritique04211. Art Prof Clara Lieu and Alex Rowe demonstrate how to paint eyes realistically using acrylic paint and watercolor. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NQX-qmkUQgY. Prof Lieu and Alex discuss the important of laying down the structure of the eye sockets and then to build from large shapes incrementally towards the smaller ones.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu demonstrates how to create an image transfer using a gelli plate, acrylic paint, and magazine pages. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WP6vtTS9kT4. Prof Lieu explains the process from beginning to end, emphasizing techniques which will provide many opportunities to explore the potential behind this exciting printmaking technique.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Deepti Menon and Cat Huang talk about what "should" be in your drawings: ANYTHING! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/j7MjYWJkX28. Contrary to the sketchbooks you see on Instagram, real artist sketchbooks are a mess, full of scraps of ideas, crummy looking doodles and drawings, and are rarely finished. See what your sketchbook "should" be: a glorious mess of whatever.

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