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Historically, artists have issues finding pigments that would provide intense primary colours. Most mineral pigments used belonged to colours found in clays, or earth: ...
We've already talked about different ways how to clean brushes fro oil paints. Most ways are either toxic, or messy, or both. Elena, RUSART's ...
What is a purpose of retouching medium for oil paintings?
Sometimes you need to have a break from your arts, but oil paintings do not ...
Meet Dulce Tapp
Dulce is a mixed-media artists working preliminary in collage techniques. Her works are very easy to recognize: bold Mexican colours, balanced composition ...
If for oil or acrylic painting we have many mediums to choose from that serve in a different way, watercolour medium sounds a little ...
Tinting pastes have very wide range of use and will bring more ideas to creative artists. However, there are only few artists who ever ...
Watercolours are very enjoyable, but right after drying results may not be what you expected: colours changed, faded and become pastel-looking. Why does it ...
Meet Nadine Sallinen
Nadine is an artist residing and working in BC, Canada. She has had a fascination with art since childhood. She started initially with watercolours, drawing with pencil, ...
Watercolour is a very unique medium, and as result we see depends on many factors:
paper
amount of water used
paint quality
brushes and
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Watercolour is one of the oldest but still innovative painting medium with a lot of characteristics. These glue-based paints still have more interesting to ...
George Yaneff is a Bulgarian-Canadian artist working in his own unique style full of colours and texture.
George's Short Bio
That's how George is describing his ...
How to choose the right canvas and why they are different - are most common questions in any art shop. We’ve already talked about ...
Meet Judith A. Brown - a watercolour artist from Alberta
Judith A. Brown is a watercolour artist from Spirit River, Alberta and has been artistically inclined ...
Here we’ve collected many ways how to clean brushes after oil painting and prolong their life.
What artists really don’t like about oil painting is that ...
Yellow Ochre is the second popular pigment in use for paints after titanium white. Ochres are one of the most ancient pigments used even ...
Support for your canvas is another important “ingredient” of a successful painting. Your canvas can be stretched on wooden bars or glued to a cardboard ...
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Meet out featured artist - Kira Sokolovskaia, a talented pastel artist, who worked at RUSART as an art instructor from 2017 to 2020.
Kira is ...
Once, I had a conversation about paints while was doing demo for artists. I mentioned that pigments used in a brand that I was ...
What do you really need to know is that oil paints have a lot of fillers. It’s not possible to make thick paints without ...