I’m an artist and first-degree art teacher from the Netherlands. I love creating videos and blogs about painting for both beginners and advanced painters.

New real time tutorial for All-Access Patreon members: Clownfish

In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to create a soft, dreamy background that beautifully contrasts with a crisp and vibrant foreground. Using a reference photo, we’ll tweak the colors to design a nice composition, and then dive into painting the star of the show: a sharp, detailed clownfish!🐟

Upcoming on YouTube: 5 part series on tonal values

I’ve created a 5-part video series on tonal values for Royal TalensThis series begins with an introduction and then dives into step-by-step, paint-along tutorials designed to help you understand tonal values through practical exercises. I hope you’ll enjoy watching and painting along!

Click here for an overview of all my YouTube videos on painting with acrylics. There are videos on color mixing, tonal values, materials and short and long tutorials. 

Click here for my blogs on painting and drawing (and occasionally a personal blog). 

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Latest blogs:

Moving to new studio

 

At the moment I’m moving into my new studio. I thought it would be fun to share a bit about this.

 

 


The importance of tonal values

 

We live in a three dimensional world and we perceive it that way thanks to the differences in light and dark. Everything you see has a tonal value on a scale from black to white.