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Art, Creativity, & Painting
Best Painting Technique for Ocean Waves
Painting Waves To paint the waves in my waterscapes, I use three different painting techniques - and sometimes all three are included in the same painting! These are also the same techniques I use, with slight variations, to paint those fluffy white clouds in my...
Painting with Glazes on Gold Leaf
Glazes create transparent paint overlays that work well on special surfaces like gold leaf. Use glazes to create a wide variety of painting effects, and to illuminate color. Glazing has been used throughout painting history and is still widely used today for all...
Special Acrylic Painting Mediums – Tips to use GACs
Feel confused by all those GAC mediums on the art store shelves? What ARE they all for? I am happy to share what I've learned through many years working as a Certified Working Artist for GOLDEN, and how I use these mediums in my paintings. First things first!...
PAINTING IDEAS FOR BEGINNING ARTISTS
If you find yourself house bound and stir crazy, here are three family-friendly, not-too-messy, non-toxic painting ideas to stay creative even if you can't get to the studio. Use these ideas to paint at home, along with children and friends of any age and art...
5 Best Acrylic Pour Painting Techniques
Amy Anthony is Guest Author on Nancy Reyner's blog, writing this article on Acrylic Pouring. Acrylic Pour Art involves an incredible mix of colors where the textures and shapes are developed strictly from the pouring of paint. The art itself is stunningly beautiful,...
How to Create A Great Painting
What Makes A Great Painting? An answer everyone can agree on may appear impossible. For the past decade I’ve delved passionately into this question. I discovered a significant tool that makes an average painting soar into the arena of great. Using this tool in...
Tips for Using Glitter with Resin
Here's an article I wanted to share that has good advice on using metallic glitter with pouring resin. It's from a company that specializes in resin pouring products called Resin Obsession, and written by their guest writer Tess DiNapoli. Enjoy! How to Get...
Painting Small but Big
Size matters. At least for painters. Small paintings appeal to us like a precious gem. Medium sizes self-reflect like a mirror. Larger sizes evoke an expansive space. The size of a painting significantly affects a viewer's experience. With this in mind I recently...
Best Ways to Express Emotion in Painting
Painters paint for many reasons, and I believe emotion is one of those. The act of painting in itself can be a release of feelings, or a way to handle life events. So emotion plays a part in the making of the work, but it also plays a part in the viewing of the work....
Acrylic Mediums, Gels & Pastes. What are they?
ACRYLIC - It’s not just paint! Acrylic is an amazing medium for fine art painters. Acrylic research and development has taken acrylic far beyond what any other medium, like oil or watercolor, can do. When we compare acrylic to all the other available mediums for...
Award Winner Linda Harbert
Linda Harbert, The School and It's Environment, oil on canvas, 35.5" x 47.25" The journey an artist takes in creating their work has always interested me. From their first decision to create art to the point where they discover their work is uniquely theirs can take a...
The Complete Guide to Acrylic Painting
Nancy's Most Popular Course on AcrylicBring your visions to life on canvas. From your first brushstroke to your ultimate masterpiece – this course has it all.A Do-it-yourself courseFully demonstrated techniquesAcrylic Paint. You'll love it! Easily master acrylic...
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