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1.  Learn to Paint
2.  Genre Demo
3.  Making Art Tools
​4.  Art Tips
1.  Learn to Paint
Learn to Paint.  Set Up Your Studio
•The link – how to set up an artists' studio - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  minutes
•Format – Video
•Description - Quick review on key requirements for an artist studio.
Learn to Paint.  Supplies You Will Need
•The link – Supply List | Draw Mix Paint
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  2 Pages
•Format – Document
•Description - Recommended Supplies for a beginner.
Learn to Paint.  Choose Your Subject - From life
•The link – how to set up a still life - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  17 minutes
•Format – Video
•Description - 
Learn to Paint.  Choose Your Subject - How to Size Prints When Painting from a Photo Using Photoshop
•The link – how to size prints when painting from a photo - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  15 minutes and 40 seconds.
•Format – Video
•Description - 
Learn to Paint.  Prepare Your Canvas, Staining Your Canvas
•The link - how to stain a canvas - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  7 minutes
•Format – Video
•Description - How to prep and stain a canvas.
Learn to Paint.   Beginning to Pencil From Life, How to Draw in Proportion
•The link – how to draw in proportion - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  20 minutes and 56 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - How to draw item with proper proportional relationships to each other.
Learn to Paint.  Drawing Simplified, How to Draw in Proportion
•The link – The Draw Mix Paint Blog: Drawing Simplified: Points, Angles and Curves
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  2 pages
•Format – Document
•Description - How to draw item with proper proportional relationships to each other.
Learn to Paint.  Begin to Mix Colors.  How to Mix, Benefits of a Limited Palette
•The link – how to mix colors with oil paint - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  32 minutes and 23 seconds: 21 minutes and 49 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - Mixing colors with a color checker to paint a still life.  Benefits of using a limited palette.
Learn to Paint.  Choosing Your Color Groups
•The link – choosing color groups before mixing colors - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  8 minutes and 19 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - Breaking down a paining into color groups.
Learn to Paint.  How to Match any Color, Ultimate Color Wheel for Artists; Color is Relative, Natural Color versus Oversaturated
•The link – How to Match Any Color with Oil Paint - YouTube;
 Ultimate Color Wheel for Artists - Color Mixing Rules to Remember - YouTube;
 Color is Relative - Start with Non-Vivid Paint Color - YouTube;
​ Natural Color vs Artificial Oversaturated Color - Art Instruction - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  33  minutes and 36 seconds, 11 minutes and 32 seconds, 7 minutes and 10 seconds, 6 minutes and 56 seconds.
•Format – Video
•Description - Quick review on adjusting for color and value.
Learn to Paint.  Begin to Mix Colors, How to Thin Down Paint with Medium.
•The link – how to thin down oil paint with medium - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  9 minutes and 12 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - Mixing mediums tutorial
Learn to Paint.  Recipes for Paint Mediums
•The link – Supply List | Draw Mix Paint
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  1 Page
•Format – Document
•Description - Paint colors used and medium recipes for thinning or increasing the drying time of paints.
Learn to Paint.  Finish Your Color Groups.  How to Organize a Palette.
•The link – how I like to organize my palette - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  3 minutes and 31 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - How to organize you palette and color groups.
Learn to Paint.  Painting Your First Object - How to Paint in Oil
•The link – how to paint in oil - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  1 hour and 37 Minutes
•Format – Video
•Description - How to paint an oil painting... step by step approach.
Learn to Paint.  Painting Your First Object - Interactive Time Lapse of Step by Step Painting
•The link – "Yellow Flowers" Timelapse | Draw Mix Paint
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  6 pages
•Format – Document
•Description - Useful time lapse of a step by step development of an oil painting.
​Learn to Paint.  Painting Your First Object - Protecting Shadow Colors.  Understanding Shadow Colors
•The link – protecting your shadow colors - YouTube; understanding shadow colors - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  2 minutes and 37 seconds, 3 minutes and 2 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - Special care to take when creating and applying shadow colors.
​Learn to Paint.  Painting Texture on a Surface
•The link – How to Paint Surface Texture - oil painting lesson for artists - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  7 minutes and 23 seconds.
•Format – Video
•Description - How to apply paint with a brush for effect.
​Learn to Paint.  Reasons NOT to Blend While Painting.
•The link – Reasons NOT to Blend While Painting (and How to Break the Habit) - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  12 minutes and 48 seconds.
•Format – Video
•Description - to blend ot not to blend.  That is the question discussed.
​Learn to Paint.  Good Brush Habits.  How to load your brush with Paint.
•The link – Good Brush Habits and How to Load Your Brush with Paint - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  11 minutes and 17 seconds.
•Format – Video
•Description - Brush techniques and care.
Learn to Paint.  Painting Values.  Thinking about color selection and value impact.  Most Common Value Mistakes.
•The link – Value Misconceptions & more – Ep.11 Oil Painting Q&A with Mark Carder - YouTube. 
 Most Common Value Mistake Artists Make - and how to avoid it - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  26 minutes and 3 seconds, 7 minutes and 23 seconds,
•Format – Video
•Description - Understanding Values relationship to color.
Learn to Paint.  Going Forward.  Final adjustments.  What's important, how to check.
•The link – lessons from a workshop - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  15 minutes and 30 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - Making final adjustments to a painting.
Learn to Paint.  Oiling Out a Painting to Bring Out True Color
•The link – how to oil out your painting - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  3 minutes 
•Format – Video
•Description - How to "oil out" a painting to bring back its luster and colors.
Learn to Paint.  Varnishing a Painting
•The link – gloss varnish vs. matte varnish - YouTube; how to varnish an oil painting - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  1 minute and 56 seconds , 3 minutes and 53 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - Why you should use gloaa varnish and how to varnish a painting
Genre Demonstrations
Genre.  Hill County Landscape DEMO
•The link – Landscape - Painting Demo - Paint in Oil Instruction - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  35 minutes and 45 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - Landscape Painting Tutorial
Genre.  Landscape Demonstration
•The link – Oil Painting Demonstration, Landscape, Wet in Wet, Alla Prima - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  37 minutes and 17 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - Landscape Tutorial.
Genre.  Landscape from Imagination.
•The link – Landscape from Imagination - Oil Painting Demonstration - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  37 minutes and 39 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - Painting a Landscape from Imagination.
Genre.  DEMO of Painting Two Doors.
•The link – Emily Paints Two Doors with Oil Paint - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  31 minutes and 8 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - DEMO of painting two doors.
Genre.  How to Paint Skies
•The link – How to Paint Skies - Oil Painting Demonstration - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  27 minutes and 39 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - Tutorial on how to paint skies.
Genre.  How to Mix Flesh Tones
•The link – How to Mix Great Flesh Tones - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  13 minutes and 32 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - DEMO of painting a poodle head.
Genre.  Painting 3 Peaches, Still Life.
•The link – I Paint Three Peaches - Painting Demo - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  36 minutes and 28 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - DEMO of painting 3 peaches.  A still life.
Genre.  Painting a Jar of Oil Volume 1 & 2
•The link – Oil Painting Demo - Painted from Life - Wet in Wet - Jar of Oil - YouTube; Oil Painting Demo - Painted from Life - Wet on Dry - Jar of Oil - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  34 minutes and 36 seconds, 38 minutes and 43 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - DEMO of painting ajar of oil.
Genre.  Painting 2 Pears, a Still Life.
•The link – I Paint Two Pears with Oil Paint - Painting Demonstration - How to Paint Texture and more - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  34 minutes and 24 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - DEMO of painting 2 pears.  A still life.
Genre.  Painting DEMO of Silver Container, a Still Life.
•The link – Oil Painting Demo - Painted from Life - Wet in Wet - Silver Container - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  38 minutes and 50 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - DEMO of painting a silver container.  A still life.
Genre.  Painting a Poodle Head
•The link – Painting Demo: Poodle Head - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  13 minutes and 32 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - DEMO of painting a poodle head.
Genre.  Painting a Still Life
•The link – Painting Demo: Maintaining the Abstraction - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  43 minutes and 3 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description - DEMO od painting a still life.
3.  Making Art Tools
Making Art Tools.  Mark Carder, Setting up a home studio
•The link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_mPyW_OfUU
•Date – 2/2021
•Duration – 7 minutes
•Format – video
•Description – A simple home studio.
Making Art Tools.  Mark Carder, How to Make an Easel
•The link – how to make a great artists' easel - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  minutes
•Format – video
•Description – 
Making Art Tools. How to Make a Glass Palette.  How to Make a Palette Table.
•The link – how to make great artists' palettes - YouTube; how to make an artists' palette table - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  8 minutes and 5 seconds, 16 minutes and 14 seconds.
•Format – video
•Description – 
Making Art Tools, How to Make a Brush Holder
•The link – how to make a great artists' easel - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  4 minutes
•Format – video
•Description – 
Making Art Tools.  Build a Shadow Box
•The link – how to make a shadow box for artists - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –   18 minutes and 47 seconds
•Format – video
•Description – Build a simple shadow box for painting still life.
Making Art Tools, How to Make a Color Checker Out of Wood
•The link – www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JY-AZ48wMQ
•Date – 2/2021
•Duration – 15 minutes
•Format – video
•Description – A color checker is useful to new artists who are trying to match colors.  Simple tool.
Making Art Tools, How to use a Simple home Made Color Checker
•The link – www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuZ0t5FR9f0
•Date – 2/2021
•Duration – 5-1/2 minutes
•Format – video
•Description – A color checker is useful to new artists who are trying to match colors.  Simple tool.
4.  Art Tips
How to Stretch a Canvas
•The link – easy way to take care of oil paintbrushes - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  minutes
•Format – video
•Description – Tutorial on how to properly stretch a canvas.
Art Tips.  How to Clean Your Brushes
•The link – easy way to take care of oil paintbrushes - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  11 minutes and 49 seconds
•Format – video
•Description – Tutorial on how to properly cleaning paint brushes and brush care.
Art Tips, How to Photograph Your Painting with a Smartphone
•The link – Photographing Your Painting | Draw Mix Paint; How to Photograph Paintings with a Cell Phone - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  6 pages, 6 minutes and 32 seconds
•Format – Document, Video
•Description – Guide to getting quality photos of your paintings with a smartphone.
Art Tips, How to Photograph Your Painting with a Smartphone
•The link – Photographing Your Painting | Draw Mix Paint
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  6 pages
•Format – Document
•Description – Guide to getting quality photos of your paintings with a smartphone.
Art Tips, How to Photograph Your Painting with a DSLR Camera.  Includes equipment selection, Use, and Photo Editing with Photoshop.
•The link – Advanced Photography Guide | Draw Mix Paint
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  14 pages
•Format – Document
•Description – An excellent and comprehensive guide to photographing a painting with a DSLR camera.
Art Tips, How to Photograph Your Painting
•The link – How to Photograph your Painting - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  7 minutes and 35 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description – Guide to getting quality photos of your paintings.
Art Tips,  Landscape Photography for Painting.
•The link – Landscape Photography for Artists - choosing the right photograph to paint from - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  12 minutes and 14 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description – Taking and using landscape photos for painting.
Art Tips, Easiest Way to Ship a Painting.
•The link – Easiest Way to Ship a Painting Safely - how to crate, box artwork - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  3 minutes and 56 seconds
•Format – Video
•Description – A method for shipping paintings safely.
Art Tips,  How to Save Paint
•The link – How to Not Waste Oil Paint - YouTube
•Date – 4/2021
•Duration –  6 minutes and 4 seconds.
•Format – Video
•Description – How to save paint and make it go further.