Learn all about how to varnish an oil painting, a water-mixable oil painting or an acrylic painting. A varnish is a coating of resin applied to the surface ...
On 13 December 2022 / By Julie CavesThis is Part 2 of Making Your Own Oil Paint. Read Part 1, Making Your Own Oil Paint with Jackson’s Pigments, for lots more helpful instructions about paint ...
On 11 August 2022 / By Julie CavesCharvin oil paints have a great reputation and I am very pleased to say that we now stock these gorgeous paints at Jackson’s. Charvin have a long tradition ...
On 18 July 2022 / By Julie CavesMaking Handmade Oil Paint You can make good oil paint with just pigment, a drying oil and a palette knife. But most artists making there own paint take ...
On 4 July 2022 / By Julie CavesMake a paint mulling slab in about 30 minutes – to use for making your own artist oils or watercolour paints. Plus an introduction to making your own ...
On 2 May 2022 / By Julie CavesVenice Turpentine is a traditional, historic product for oil painters that causes some confusion because it has an archaic name that is misleading. Despite what the name implies, ...
On 10 March 2022 / By Julie CavesTo create paintings that stay looking like they did when you finished them, often called permanent paintings, there are some basic principles of oil painting that you may ...
On 20 December 2021 / By Julie CavesMost brands of watercolour paint come in a choice of two formats: dried pans or moist tubes. Watercolour painters often ask how to choose which to use – ...
On 8 November 2021 / By Julie CavesThere are two products from Langridge that are designed to help oil painters have a healthier and safer work environment: Solvent 75 and Safe-Clean-Up. I wanted to give ...
On 17 September 2021 / By Julie CavesSometimes art terms can be confusing – some words mean more than one thing, or one product can be called two or three different names. A case in ...
On 23 August 2021 / By Julie CavesOil painting papers have a special coating that prevents the paper from absorbing the oil content of the paint. They usually have an embossed linen texture on their ...
On 15 June 2021 / By Julie CavesPastel papers are textured so that they can hold layers of pastel pigment. The wide variety of textures cater for every kind of approach to the medium. They ...
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