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🎨Start Here – Welcome to Cascade Art Studio

    

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 Hi there! 👋 Welcome to Cascade Art Studio, a creative space where art flows, ideas spark, and everyone is encouraged to explore their creativity.

Whether you’re a beginner picking up a pencil for the first time, a hobbyist wanting to improve, or someone simply looking for inspiration, this is the perfect place to start.

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✨ What You’ll Find Here

• Step-by-step tutorials – Easy lessons for drawing, sketching, and painting.

• Creative inspiration – Stories behind my artworks, plus reflections on creativity and life.

• Artist features – Spotlights on fellow artists and their journeys.

• Art therapy insights – How creativity helps us heal, relax, and connect.

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🖌 Recommended Beginner Tutorials

If you’re new, start with these lessons:

1. How to Draw a Portrait (Step-by-Step Guide)

2. Simple Shading Techniques for Beginners

3. Drawing Realistic Eyes – A Quick Tutorial

4. Choosing the Right Paper for Sketching

(Tip: Bookmark this page so you can come back anytime!)

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🌸 Free Gift for You

Want to practice right away?
👉 Download my free guide: 5 Quick Sketching Exercises to Unlock Your Creativity

It’s my little welcome gift to help you get started today.

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🎨 Next Steps

• Subscribe via email so you’ll never miss a free lesson or new post.

• Explore the Tutorials section for more structured learning.

• Join me on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest) for behind-the-scenes sketches and art tips.

• Say hello! I’d love to hear from you. Drop a comment on a post or send me a message through the Contact page.

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🌊 Why Cascade?

I named this space Cascade Art Studio because creativity is like water — flowing, refreshing, unstoppable. It can nourish, heal, and inspire when we allow it to move through us.

So take a deep breath, grab your sketchbook, and let’s create together.

💛 Welcome to the Cascade family!

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ART involves the WholeBrain Approach to the Development

Drawing or art making is a creative process that involves the WholeBrain approach to personal development.  We usually use Quadrant A of our brain when referencing our subjects for our drawings and paintings.  Quadrant A of our brain utilizes facts and data.  Thus, when we reference objects we want to draw, we use quadrant A of our brain.  We can draw what our eyes see.

Art making is also a Quadrant B activity.  Quadrant B involves process.  With art, we take steps in producing masterpieces.  It enhances our patience and perseverance because we cannot rush it.  But while we do the process, it is enjoyable and exciting.  It is very similar to exploring, where we discover visually satisfying output.  As an outcome, it enhances our mental and emotional state.

Drawing, painting, and any form of art-making is also a Quadrant C brain activity.  With passion, we grow our skills.  We put our hearts into our creations; thus, committing ourselves to one project is like giving birth to a new form.  Art enthusiasts relate well to the artist's creations.  Arts are the artist's self-expression.  When our viewers get to see and understand what the artist wants to convey, it then communicates his or her inner thoughts. 

Finally, Art is also a Quadrant D process of the brain.  The artist begins by conceptualizing what he/she wants to put on a canvas or paper.  He/she visualizes his/her masterpieces before committing to work.  We see first the possibilities before we move forward to creation.

Starting our Basic Lessons in Drawing  - Click the following links to see the lessons.

Link to Lesson 1: Basic Drawing Lessons 👈

         What you will learn here are the following:

• First Lesson - Understanding Drawing Materials 
• Second Lesson - How to Sketch? 
• Third Lesson - Shadowing techniques 
• Fourth Lesson - Workshop activity 

Link to Lesson 2:  Sketching Inanimate Object 👈

Learn how to draw life-less objects.  By learning the techniques for drawing inanimate objects, you will find it easier to record things that catch your attention on a drawing pad.

Link to Lesson 3:  Shading or Shadowing Techniques for Drawing 👈

This art lesson teaches the students the different types of shading techniques.  At the end of the lesson, there is an assignment or workshop the student needs to accomplish to practice drawing.

Link to Lesson 4: How to Draw Alive-Looking Eyes  👈

     This art lesson will show you different ways of producing beautiful, alive-looking eyes for your portraits and human paintings.  We curated available materials online and added the links so you'll find improving your art easy. 

Link to Lesson 5: Landscape Painting using Oil Pastel 👈

     Oil pastel is one medium that is similar to a color.  Not knowing the properties and characteristics of this medium, you may be undermining its beauty.  You can produce textured paintings with these. Their colors are brilliant, and they are also soluble.  

Link to Lesson 6: Portraiture using Charcoal Pencil 👈

     Charcoal pencils are great for portraiture.  Watch this video on how to create portraiture.  I gave some tips on shadowing.  I only use charcoal pencils instead of charcoal stab.  But I don't directly apply the charcoal pencil.  I also use a stub paper spreader, a kneaded eraser, and a dry brush with medium-soft bristles to achieve what I want.

Link to Lesson 7: Oil Pastel Drawing (Etching) 👈

     The essential oil pastel drawing is fun, and you can be creative.  This medium is similar to oil paint but is more accessible when using materials always on the go.  This lesson is part of our lecture in our Saturday Art Class.  There'll be part 2 soon.

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