Basic oil painting principles
Here are four important principles for a stable film in oil painting- from the Winsor & Newton The Oil Colour Book which you can download from their website here. • Take care to avoid adding too...
View ArticleDrying Oils and Mediums
A nice in-depth article on Drying Oils and Mediums can be found on Ron Sanders website. On his website he also has demos and a book and dvd, other helpful painting information as well as a list of his...
View ArticleArt of the Print website
The Art of the Print website by Derby-based artist Arvon Wellen has loads of useful information and history on printmaking techniques and equipment. The site includes a section on Safe Printmaking that...
View ArticleAn artist needs many skills
Over on Chris Tyrell Loranger’s Visual Art Marketing Blog he has listed the many skills an artist needs to be successful. It is a long list. As many artists have said – if making art is your business...
View ArticleHow to Talk to Artists
How to Talk to Artists at Art Festivals- The Do’s and Don’ts This is a nice article by Marie Vlasic on her blog which attempts to share with art fair visitors the view from the other side of the stand....
View ArticleArtists on Twitter
The Artists & Illustrators magazine current issue (April 2014) has a very useful article with advice for artists on using social media: ‘An Artists Guide to Twitter’. I was chuffed to see our...
View ArticleKeep Our Cadmiums! By Simon Fletcher
Following on from our report on the EU’s threat to ban Cadmium pigments and therefore severely reduce the palette of professional quality colours available to today’s European painters, author of ‘The...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn Nielsen – Still Life Painting
Peter Bjorn Nielsen has written a great article called: Still Life Painting in Pastels that you can read on the PanPastels blog. It is a step-by-step tutorial using PanPastels. The image above is the...
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