Posts in Artist Resources
How to Create Abstract Art with Acrylics

In this acrylic painting for beginners tutorial, I'm sharing my top acrylic painting techniques. Whether you want to learn acrylic painting on canvas, or simply want to learn a new paint medium, this will walk you step-by-step through everything you need to get started with acrylic paint.

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Procreate Tutorial - Adjusting Color in Procreate

One of my top strategies for selling artwork online is to create pieces in multiple different color palettes. Potential customers have varying styles and preferences. If you create a piece in just one color, you're limiting yourself to one type of audience. In this Procreate tutorial, you’ll learn how to create multiple different color palettes from one illustration.

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How to Make a Seamless Pattern in Procreate

A seamless pattern (or repeating pattern) is a pattern that can be repeated endlessly without any visible seams or interruptions. In this tutorial I'll walk you through how to create professional, repeat patterns in my favorite digital art tool - Procreate!

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Acrylic Painting for Beginners

In this acrylic painting for beginners tutorial, I'm sharing my top acrylic painting techniques. Whether you want to learn acrylic painting on canvas, or simply want to learn a new paint medium, this will walk you step-by-step through everything you need to get started with acrylic paint.

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Trend Forecasting for Visual Creatives

I've been licensing my artwork since 2014 and have sold over 1,000,000 products with my designs on them. The reason I've been able to sell so much of my artwork? Trend forecasting. I have learned how to forecast upcoming popular trends and capitalize on them to create profitable designs with mass appeal. Keying into motifs, colors, and patterns that are rising in popularity has been the key to my success as a surface designer.

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Tips for Framing Art Prints for Home Decor: Examples with Frames, Matting, and Various Sizes

Selecting artwork is the fun part, but framing can get overwhelming. This helpful guide will help you navigate the world of frame selection. The easiest method is to purchase a frame with a pre-cut mat that’s already sized to fit your artwork or photograph.

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The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Procreate on the iPad

One of my favorite new digital art mediums is Procreate on the iPad. It is an affordable and intuitive app to use, and you are able to create some seriously stunning artwork with it. From illustrations to animation, Procreate is a powerful tool that you can take with you on the go.

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Procreate Tutorial - How to Create Perfectly Symmetrical Illustrations in Procreate

Drawing in Procreate has become one of my favorite ways to create artwork. In this Procreate tutorial, I'll share my top tip for making perfectly symmetrical illustrations in Procreate.

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How to Design Product Mockups

There is nothing like seeing your artwork hanging in a frame or printed on a product for the first time. Seeing my artwork displayed like this was such a pivotal part of feeling like I’d “made it” as a fine artist. But what if I told you that you could feel that feeling today without ordering any special products, frames, or prints of your artwork? Enter, product mockups.

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Watercolor Painting Techniques for Beginners

Are you wondering how to get started with watercolor painting as a beginner? In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through four basic watercolor techniques that are perfect for you to learn as a beginner. This tutorial is geared towards beginners, but if you’re an experienced artist, you’re also welcome to follow along and get some watercolor practice!

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The Beginner's Guide to Art Licensing with Print on Demand

What is print on demand and how can artists profit from it? Print on demand is a production model where products with custom printed designs are produced as customers order them. In this post I’ll share my top tips for selling your art on print on demand sites, and how print on demand became one of the biggest revenue streams in my business.

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Procreate Tutorial - Drawing with Texture in Procreate

Drawing in Procreate has become one of my favorite ways to create artwork. In this Procreate tutorial, I'll share my top tip for making your illustrations pop - adding texture! Using texture brushes is a great way to add dimension and a professional look to your artwork.

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My Weekly Artist Challenge - #CreateWithCatCoq

Want to learn new art skills and strengthen your creative muscles? Join me, CatCoq, for a weekly artist challenge and creative prompts.

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Adding Metallic Textures in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to add metallic textures to your artwork. Metallics are super popular right now, and this trend is not going anywhere any time soon. Whether you want to sell your art online or just want to add some shine to your artwork, this metallic textures tutorial is for you!

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How to Create a Seamless Pattern in Photoshop

A seamless pattern (or repeat/repeating pattern) is a pattern that can be repeated endlessly without any visible seams or interruptions. In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a seamless pattern block that can be stacked on itself and repeated endlessly.

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The Step-by-Step Guide to Digitizing Artwork in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’ll focus on digitizing individual painted elements. I love painting simple elements like these and using Photoshop to digitally arrange them into seamless patterns. The first step to digitizing art is to remove the white paper texture background in Photoshop which is what I’ll show you how to do today.

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Attention, Fellow Color Nerds! *New Class Alert*

Big announcement! My newest Skillshare class has officially launched! 🌈 In my class, you’ll learn step-by-step how to transform your artwork into a flourishing collection of color variations. Do you want to learn how to duplicate your original artwork into a variety of brand new color palettes? With just a few clicks, you can turn one piece of artwork into an assortment of color palettes!

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New CatCoq Class Announcement: Growing Your Creative Business Through Instagram

Are you an artist, designer, photographer, content creator, or visual creative on Instagram? My new class will help you grow your brand successfully on Instagram, tailored specifically to visual creatives.

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