A palette knife is a really essential artist painting tool for use with oil paint, acrylic paint or thick mediums. Giving you the ability to produce shape, texture or mixing of your acrylic paints or oil colour paint for all levels of artist. Most artists refer to any...
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Pebeo Acrylic High Viscosity Paints
Hi Everyone, just a quick few lines about Pebeo Studio Acrylics High Viscosity. Mark from Local Art Shop gave me a couple of tubes of this Pebeo Acrylic paint to try out, I thought to get a real feel for the paints I would give them to one or two of my art students to try out….
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd Exhibit
Classical literature meets Hollywood next year as Nottingham Contemporary Art Centre welcomes the Turner Prize nominee Marvin Gaye Chetwynd. This is the first solo exhibition that Chetwynd has displayed in Britain and it will include a combination of her work combined with some performance.
Planet Friendly Paper?
As mentioned in a previous blog, paper plays an important role in everyone’s lives. Far beyond the hand squashed reeds of the Cyperus Papyrus and the donkey powered factories of the 8th century, paper is now an important resource in all areas of art and industry.
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Crafter’s Acrylics Koi Plaque
This is my new project using DecoArt Crafters Acrylics from…..
Rob’s Trip to London
Hello Everyone
I have just got back from a little trip to London.
Whilst I was there I did some sight seeing and……
Sherwood Art Week 2013
We’re happy to see that Sherwood Art Week is back again in 2013 – Helping to raise the profile of local Nottingham artists in collaboration of all the local shops in Sherwood. As part of Sherwood Art Week, artists……………
Cling Film Watercolour Technique
This technique is very simple but can create really interesting effects for backgrounds, landscapes or rocks…….
Sponging Watercolour Technique
Another way of producing texture to enhance a painting. Paint your background and…..
Shading Watercolour Technique
This example shows how to build up from a basic wash (i.e. first thin paint layer) and then…….