There’s special colors associated with every holiday. Halloween’s colors come from ancient traditions, the season of the year, and most recently, marketing strategies. Halloween has a combination of traditional colors, as well as hues that are more contemporary. The two …
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Lightfastness is the ability of a pigment to maintain its color when exposed to the UV rays of sunlight. Some colors lighten, while other pigments darken or become gray over time. This changes the artist’s original concept and can ultimately …
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Green grass, green trees and the green waters of the Caribbean are all compelling and frustrating for a beginning painter. If you’ve deviated from an instructor’s suggested supply list, you’ve probably snatched a tube or three of lovely green hues …
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When you speak of painting on glass, you really are talking about a number of materials and types of paints. Painting on ceramics has been done for thousands of years. Cookware, dinnerware, storage containers and decorative products have been created …
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Oil painters have used turpentine since the Renaissance. This product is a derivative from tree sap or wood. It is used to thin oil paint, clean brushes and is a very inexpensive and efficient product. However, it is also a …
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Trick or Treat time is fast approaching, so fill a rainy weekend afternoon with Halloween crafts to get your kids in the mood for spooky good fun. Using paper, paints, found objects and craft items, your children can decorate the …
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All painters need a palette, and there are hundreds of sizes and styles in every price range. Whether you’re an acrylic artist, watercolorist or oil painter, there’s a size and style that will keep you painting. Sure, you can use …
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Today’s art students have such a wealth of educational opportunities that just a few years ago were unthinkable. Anyone who painted or studied art BC – Before Computers – knows what that means. Trips to the library to borrow books, …
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Walk into an art supply shop, or pop in on an online website and you’ll feel like a kid in a candy store with all the shiny baubles. Regardless of your medium, there’s hundred of paints produced by dozens of …
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A Los Angeles native, Mike Quon was greatly influenced by his father, Milton Quon, one of the first Asian-American animators at The Walt Disney Companies and an accomplished watercolorist. After graduating from UCLA, where Mike studied…
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A great mat can really add a wow factor to your artwork and turn a lackluster painting into a piece that deserves a second look. No matter how good your composition is, how painterly your brush strokes or how harmonious …
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If you’ve been dabbling in art with a pencil or pen, it may be intimidating to start using color. Many art students are comfortable drawing, but quickly become mired down when it comes to color creation. Color theory is one …
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Whether you’re a watercolorist, oil painter or acrylic artist, you will have the same selection of paint colors for your paint box. Sure, a traditional watercolorist probably won’t have a tube of white prominently displayed in the tabouret, but with …
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I love painting flowers. I use my paints to sculpt a flat piece of paper into a three dimensional image. Conveying the curves and contours of flowers and foliage is an ever-changing challenge, as no two petals or leaves are identical…
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My name is Art Scott. I’ve dabbled in the arts my whole life. My mom was the creative type and painted herself. So it’s pretty easy to guess I started out painting with Acrylics in my teens as well. At first I painted all sorts of things, and then found…
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Calligraphy is an ancient art that developed in Eastern Asian countries and in Rome around 600 BC. This beautiful and expressive form of writing is disciplined, and it uses a structured method of combining lines to create alphabet characters and …
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Acrylic and oil artists can thin their white paint to splatter a canvas and achieve a wintery snowfall. A watercolorist doesn’t have it that easy. If you’re a traditionalist, there is no tube of white paint lurking on your tabouret. …
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