New Paintings for Exhibition
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- August 8, 2012
- Acrylic Painting, Painting
So I have 4 paintings going into an exhibition starting today and I thought I would share a few pictures as three of them involve plenty of texture and each one has a different type of texture under it. They are all abstract paintings as per my usual style. Painting 1 is similar to two …
Read MoreTrying Different Texture Mediums
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- June 25, 2012
- Texture Ingredients
So I moved house recently, well I didn’t exactly move, I sold one place and am waiting on another so all my stuff is in storage. When I put it in storage I thought that it would only be a couple of weeks before I could get it all out again but now it is …
Read MoreUsing Tile Adhesive for Texture
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- May 9, 2012
- Buying Painting Supplies, Painting Texture
So someone recently asked me if you could use tile adhesive in a texture mix instead of the stucco that I usually use. Well I had to say that I did not know if tile adhesive would work as a painting base as I had never tried it. I had tried plenty of powder based …
Read MorePainting a Sky in Acrylics
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- April 24, 2012
- Acrylic Painting, Painting Tips, acrylics, painting, sky
So I wanted to share with you the method I used to create a really nice blurred background sky in acrylics. The painting that this was for actually only contains texture for the main focus of the artwork – the seagull. I wanted to create the seagull as raised on its own with the sky …
Read MoreCollectors Advised to Sell Damien Hirst Art
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- March 28, 2012
- The Art World, damien hirst
So the Independent reported today that collectors were being advised to sell any Damien Hirst items as soon as possible, before the market completely dropped for them*.
Read MoreUsing Tissue in Paintings
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- March 15, 2012
- Applying Texture, Painting Texture, Painting Tips, texture, tissue
Another item that I use to make texture in paintings is just plain tissue. I’m talking about the tissues you use to blow your nose on but you can use any other type of tissue really.
Read MoreAdding Cuttings to a Painting
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- March 6, 2012
- Mixed Media, collage, decoupage
If you want to get into mixed media painting and maybe include some cuttings in your composition – these can be newspaper clippings, printed photos on A4 paper, or things that you cut out of books or magazines then there are a few ways that you can apply these things to the canvas and they …
Read MoreCheap Canvases in the UK
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- January 21, 2012
- Buying Painting Supplies, Painting, cheap canvas, cheap canvases
If you are an artist working in the UK and you paint on canvas, then no doubt you try and find the best priced canvases at the best quality like I do. My preferred canvases are Winsor & Newton with Daler Rowney coming a close second. I find the Winsor & Newton box canvases are …
Read MoreUsing Old Paint
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- January 18, 2012
- Applying Texture, Painting, Painting Tips, acrylic, oil, old paint
Don’t forget that as well as using a base coat of a thick texture or texture paste, or adding some kind of texture to your paint – like sand or powdered plaster, that you can create some extra texture on a painting just by using old paint. If you have any left over paint on your palette …
Read MoreCleaning Brushes
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- December 2, 2011
- Acrylic Painting, Oil Painting, Painting Tips
Oil Paint When you are working with oil paints it is important that you keep the brushes clean so that the fibres do not splay and the brushes remain useable for many years. If you buy quality brushes then they can be quite expensive and therefore you need to spend time cleaning them so that …
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