Category: Tips and Techniques

It looks like being a hot summer. If you paint with acrylics, you should avoid stacking acrylic paintings on top […]

There are soooo many tubes and jars of colour out there – isn’t it wonderful! But how to choose? If […]

Interruptions. They can be a plague. You want to not only get into the creative mode; you want to be […]

“A painting is never finished, it simply stops in interesting places.” Paul Gardner (thanks @iTweetArt) If I could give just […]

Lately I’ve been playing with combining heavier body acrylics with fluid acrylics. This can be done in any order. You […]

The drawings of Hans Holbein the Younger, who lived in the times of Henry VIII, capture so much personality that […]

I had a question from someone who watched my 4 Horses video on YouTube. They wanted to know what was […]

I have been experimenting with different types of gloss finishes on acrylic paintings. The ‘gloss medium and varnish’ when poured […]

Here’s a link to a very short animation about’ Positive and Negative Space‘ from a fun website called The Artist’s Toolkit. (Find […]

Do you know that sticky stuff that they sell in office supply stores for putting posters on the wall? It […]