Lewis Meda Art

Lewis Meda Art patreon.com/lewismeda for my online painting and drawing course! Currently just £9.99 a month!

23/06/2026

Don't just copy what you see! Learn from it..

It's one thing to study from the masters, it's another thing entirely to apply what you've learned to your own paintings!

A lot of artists daydream, and don't think about what they're doing when they paint.

Especially with master studies. Too often, artists will copy master works without actually taking anything in.

Applying what you've learned from a master will test whether or not you've truly learned anything about the masters process.

This full demonstration is available on my patreon.. follow the link in my bio to learn more!

21/06/2026

A lot of beginner artists think that the more detail you add to a drawing or painting the better the impact. But that's not entirely true.

Detail is important, but most detail should be reserved for your centre of interest.

In a portrait, that's probably going to be the eyes.

The peripheral areas, such as the ears, nose, mouth, hair, neck and background should be treated with less importance.

They should be indicated, suggested, rather than fully rendered in detail.

John Singer Sargent was the master of indication!

Watch me paint this ear and learn why Sargent was such a master..

19/06/2026

Many artists believe that you cannot create soft edges without blending.. but in fact, Sargent showed us how to create soft transitions through two distinct methods:

Subtle value transitions through strategic overlapping of brush strokes

And broken edges.

This creates a fresh look that doesn't look too overworked.

14/06/2026

Rembrandt was a master at painting soulful eyes. I'm this demonstration, I take what I learned from a direct master study of one of Rembrandt's self portraits, and apply it to my own reference!

The full demonstration is available on my Patreon! Follow the link in my bio to learn more!

12/06/2026

Choose your master wisely!

Much like choosing a good teacher, you have to choose good painters to study from!

Study bad painters, and you'll become a bad painter.

Study the masters, and the sky's the limit!

10/06/2026

This is one of my favourite ways to learn from the masters. Not to just directly copy from their work, but to also apply the information and technique whilst it's still fresh!

This demonstration is available on my Patreon NOW! Follow the link in my bio to learn more.

03/06/2026

Many artists believe that more colours lead to more accurate paintings, but a limited palette can often be a much better teacher.

Here I'm using a modified Zorn Palette, with just five colours. Keeping your palette simple reduces unnecessary confusion and helps you to focus in the fundamentals that matter the most: shape, value, and edge.

The full demonstration will be available on my Patreon this week. Follow the link in my bio to learn more.

01/06/2026

A burnt umber pickout is one of the most effective ways to establish shape, value, and edge before introducing colour.

By resolving these fundamentals first, the underpainting becomes a sophisticated blueprint for the painting, allowing you to focus on colour and temperature with much greater confidence.

The full demonstration will be available on my Patrron this week. Follow the link in my bio to learn more.

29/05/2026

I dont consider the use of a projector cheating.

ONLY if you know how to draw already.

If you already know how to draw, a projector can be used as a tool to reach deadlines faster, or streamline the process for a more complex piece.

However, if you don't know how to draw, a projector becomes a crutch.

Sometimes, tools break. Or they fail in some way. In this commission, my projector was clearly having a bad day, and projected the painting too narrow.

So I had to widen everything in the painting.

If I didn't already know how to draw, not only would I probably have messed up the correction, but I probably wouldn't have even noticed anything was wrong!

Use projectors as a tool, not as a crutch.

27/05/2026

One of the biggest mistakes painters make is overrendering the face.

Too many sharp edges, too much texture, and too much information can instantly make a subject look older and less natural. Especially with younger faces, subtlety matters.

Sometimes the best painting decision is simplifying what you see - not adding more.

Full demonstration available on my Patreon.
Follow the link in my bio to learn more.

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