Hints & Tips

We recently helped you understand how to make your own perfect stretched canvas now it’s time to know the secret to making your own oil paint….

How to make your own perfect stretched canvas featuring a youtube clip originally created by Steuart Pittman, featuring the music of Boomerang Boomerang.

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….

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This sample shows how to combine the use of masking fluid, salting and over painting to create a really unique….

This technique is very simple but can create really interesting effects for backgrounds, landscapes or rocks…….

Another way of producing texture to enhance a painting. Paint your background and…..

This example shows how to build up from a basic wash (i.e. first thin paint layer) and then…….