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The principle of "fat over lean" in oil painting involves applying paint with a higher oil-to-pigment ratio ('fat') over paint with a lower oil-to-pigment ...
At first, the simplicity of plain black may seem straightforward. While we have a plethora of hues and shades in colors like green, red, ...
When using oil colors for painting, it is common to thin the paint for more precise application, glazing, or improved blending. While linseed oil ...
These two rare colours have been newly incorporated into ENL watercolour paints (half-pans). Neodymium and Erbium oxides, both classified as rare earth oxides, caught ...
When 1/2+1/2 is greater than 1
A "half pan" is not precisely half in terms of volume. The difference between a half pan and a ...
Many artists dream about having their work exhibited in museums that would preserve art for generations. Even if your painting is not going to ...
If you read an article about the VOC content of paints, you may have a valid question: why all these paints are not labelled ...
In this series of articles, I’d like to look at these two mediums from a professional and responsible artist’s point of view, thinking about ...
In this series of articles, I’d like to look at these two mediums from a professional and responsible artist’s point of view, thinking about ...
This also happens. And here we’re talking about fillers and extenders. Generally speaking, all organic pigments will have a certain amount of other components ...
There are many debates regarding what’re better mono-pigment or multi-pigment paints. As all artists are different and hence have different preferences it’s hard to ...
If even 50 years ago only mineral pigments were considered to be professional, with modern chemical industry development we have more and more new ...
Black is a very contradictory colour: some artists even prefer not to have it in their palettes and mix it when needed. I personally ...
After Iron Oxide Yellow (PY42-43) by the number of variations in colours, another iron oxide goes - Iron Oxide Red (PR101-102). Even though PR101 ...
For craft purposes, such as decorating wooden boxes or painting on leather or fabric, acrylic paints work best. They mix well, can be applied ...
There is no straight answer to what’s better - tubes or pans. Here, I’ll try to explain how things work from the artist's and ...
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 ...
Watercolour is a very unique medium, and as result we see depends on many factors:
paper
amount of water used
paint quality
brushes and
...
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 ...
Most oil paints separate and there are many reasons for that, good and not really. There are few myths around it, that I (Elena ...
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