Browsing All Posts By Julie Caves
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Acrylic PaintingPriming your canvas with a black gesso instead of the traditional white can create a sense of depth and add atmosphere and drama to your painting. The paint ...
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Oil Painting
Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the leading French Impressionist landscape painter. It was in a bad review of their first show that a critic labelled the group of ‘lunatic’ ...
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Acrylic Painting
Golden SoFlat Matt Acrylic is the most opaque, self-levelling, and matt paint of all the ranges that Golden Acrylics make. The opacity means it is very well suited ...
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Acrylic Painting
I was surprised to find out that the container of rinse water from acrylic painting, that gets poured down the sink, actually contains microplastics. I looked into it ...
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Oil Painting
A clear primer lets the colour and texture of the canvas or wood show in your painting. We look at 11 brands to see how clear they are, ...
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Acrylic Painting
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 ...
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Oil Painting
This is Part Two of Making Your Own Oil Paint. Read Part One, Making Your Own Oil Paint with Jackson’s Pigments, for lots more helpful instructions about paint ...
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Oil Painting
Charvin 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 ...
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Oil Painting
Making 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 ...
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Oil Painting
Make 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 ...
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Oil Painting
Venice 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, ...
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Oil Painting
To 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 ...
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