Getting Creative!

So, there you have it – a brief overview of the three most popular painting mediums; Watercolor, Oil and Acrylic, what you need to start your painting odyssey, what the materials do and how to use them. Now that you’ve …
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Acrylic Painting Accessories

If you’ve chosen acrylic paint as your media of choice, you have the best of both worlds. Those worlds in the art realm are watercolors and oil paints. You have the fluid translucency of watercolors with their amazing capacity to …
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Acrylic Painting Techniques

If you’ve decided to learn to paint with acrylics, you’ve chosen a medium that can do just about anything. As it’s so good at mimicking other types of paints, you have more choices for style and technique than any other …
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Acrylic Paint Brushes

Walk into any craft store and wander over to the art supply department. You probably won’t find a lone section of shelves displaying paintbrushes. It’s more likely that you’ll come upon an entire aisle of brushes for every medium and …
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Acrylic Painting Support

Many acrylic artists use the same supports that oil painters use. Typically, a painter uses either canvas or wooden panels. Acrylic painters who paint in watercolor technique use watercolor paper. A great thing about acrylic paints is that it can …
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Acrylic Paint Brands

You’ve decided to leap into the fray and learn to paint with acrylics. You may have purchased a book or signed up for a class. Now it’s time to purchase your supplies. Selecting your paints is a fun and frustrating …
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Acrylic Paints

Acrylics are great for so many styles and techniques of painting. This paint can be used straight from the tube, thinned with water or thickened with acrylic paste. It’s available in a number of different forms for both crafters and …
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Acrylics – Where to Start

Acrylic Paint is one of the most important advancements in technology for an artist since ready-made tube paints became available during the 19th century. If you’ve never painted and are really up in the air about which medium to use, …
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Oil Painting Tips and Tricks

There are so many little bits of useful information a painter can add to his bag of tricks. You’ll never remember them all if you don’t incorporate them into a routine right away, so make a little notebook of tips …
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Oil Painting Accessories

Unlike watercolorists, oil painters require a few extras in their tabouret. It’s possible to paint without too many other accessories, but additional items expand your repertoire of techniques and adds enjoyment and diversity to your painting experience. Let’s begin… Adding …
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Oil Painting Techniques

There are so many variations of Oil Painting techniques that it would take volumes to cover them all. However, a short basic list will cover much of the work taught in a beginning oil painting class. Don’t expect to master …
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Oil Paint Brushes

We’ve come a long way from boar bristles tied to a stick with a rawhide thong, but painters will try just about anything to get paint on the canvas. If there’s anything an artist likes to collect as much as …
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Oil Paint Supports

Unlike watercolor, there’s a huge array of surfaces you can use for oil paintings. Anything you can slap a coat or two of gesso on is a likely target for a starving artist. Extreme Painting Surfaces are a topic we’ll …
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Oil Paint Brands

If you walk into an art supply store, you will probably find two, three or four brands of Oil Paints on the shelves. This is confusing enough, but it is only the tip of the iceberg. Shopping on the Internet, …
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Oil Paints

Oil paints can be the most costly medium for an artist to choose. However, with a little careful shopping and good judgment, an art student can find Oil Paints that will fit his budget and be of reasonably good quality. …
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Oils – Where to Start

There’s just something about painting with oils that encompasses your senses. It’s the feeling of the buttery textured paint as you blend it on your palette. It’s the smell of the paint thinner and the slight taste of it on …
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