Lachri Fine Art

Lachri Fine Art Lisa Clough "Lachri" Artist - Violinist Realistic portraits and surreal paintings

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My newest colored pencil and airbrushed piece (via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQd4SkxIK8w) 

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Tips for pricing your own artwork =D (via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPNv-VrErWs)

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My newest tutorial is up!

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Get back to that easel!!

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How to draw a nose w/ Lachri

Learn how to realistically draw and shade a nose in graphite in this speed drawing tutorial. I am using a Derwent B graphite pencil, a mechanical pencil fill...

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Critique Australian White's tree frog drawing

Critique Australian White’s tree frog drawing

Today we’re taking a look at this Australian White’s tree frog drawing completed by artist Brinjen Russel from http://www.brinjen.com. I love this guy. I actually had an Australian White’s tree frog for 12 years. His name was “Rib”. His last name was “Bit”….aaaaaanyway these are really cool frogs. This guy happened to live in Brinjen’s bathroom. I swear I’m moving to Australian if I keep hearing…

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Is your finished artwork safe?

Is your finished artwork safe?

One of the most tragic things in an artist’s life is having something you spent months on get damaged by poor storage choices. I’ve had this happen several times when transporting paintings to and from art fairs and even when just storing them here at home.  Today I’m going to show you how I personally protect my paintings and drawings from damage.

Once an oil or acrylic painting is completely…

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My experience with Wordpress

My experience with WordPress

I talked a bit about the awesomeness of blogging about your art a couple of weeks ago. The day that video went live I got an email from google webmaster tools letting me know that my website was not mobile friendly (I personally hate mobile sites so I never bothered to adjust mine). They said that my site would drop on search engines accordingly. UGGG!! I don’t have time to redo my whole site!!!…

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Scottish wildcat graphite critique

Scottish wildcat graphite critique

    Today we’re taking a look at this graphite drawing by artist Kerstin Schröder. She is working towards improving her realism. Kerstin’s reference photo for this graphite was from Tambako Photography.  You can check out more of Kerstin’s work at www.facebook.com/KessisPencilArt and www.youtube.com/firiel1977.

The thing that stood out most to me on this piece was the accuracy of the drawing. As…

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How to post more engaging photos

How to post more engaging photos

We all want people to be as excited about our art as we are. Sometimes it’s hard to get people to stop and look at your work when you post on social media. We tend to take this personally. First…don’t. Second, I’ve got some quick tips on how you can post a shot of your work that is more engaging to viewers.

  Social media is FILLED with photos. Photos of art, photos of people’s lunch (no,…

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Corgi in oil over acrylic paint

Corgi in oil over acrylic paint

    I was pretty excited to have the opportunity to paint this guy. The reference photo was amazing! While the pose of the corgi was not one I would typically be drawn to, the strengths of the soft background and wildflowers more than made up for that making this a piece I was thrilled to paint.

I started by airbrushing my background. This is a look that can be achieved by wet into wet blending…

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