About
ArtisticMasterclass.com is run by Sujith Puthran, a visual artist with more than 15 years of hands-on practice in charcoal, graphite, oil, colored pencil, pastel and acrylic, together with a small team. You can see Sujith’s own work at @sujithputhranartist.
The site grew out of something we started in 2018: a network of Instagram pages, each dedicated to one traditional medium, where we feature artists from around the world. Today those pages reach more than 2.3 million followers, and this website is where we go deeper than a post can.
Our Instagram network: @graphite.masters (graphite), @charcoal.masters (charcoal), @oilpainting.masters (oil painting), @coloredpencil.masters (colored pencil), @acrylic.masters (acrylic) and @watercolor.mastery (watercolor). Every artist we feature is credited by name.
Who Writes These Guides
Sujith writes or reviews every guide on this site, drawing on 15+ years of working with the materials we cover. Supply recommendations come from studio use, manufacturer specifications and what we hear from the artists in our network. If we haven’t used a product ourselves, we say so rather than claim we tested it.
Our featured-artist profiles are researched from the artist’s own channels and published interviews. Artworks are always credited to the artist and linked back to them.
Our Network
Through the six medium pages we see thousands of works every week, from students to established painters. That daily view of what artists are actually making, and asking about, shapes what we write here: which papers take charcoal well, which pencils blend, which artists deserve a wider audience.
Want your work considered for a feature? See Get Featured.
What We Believe
Traditional drawing and painting still matter. We want to make them easier to learn and easier to buy for, with honest, practical guidance that respects your time, and to give talented artists, many of them little known outside their own countries, the recognition they deserve.
Questions, corrections or ideas? Contact us. We read every message.