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Buying Art Supplies In Winter
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Buying Art Supplies In Winter

Elena Nahum Leroy Posted on February 10, 2026
Living in Canada, we expect cold winters, but shipping art materials during freezing temperatures can be challenging. Extreme cold can affect the quality and ...
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Card-Making  – Start a New Hobby
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Card-Making – Start a New Hobby

Elena Nahum Leroy Posted on November 2, 2025
If you ever need a relaxing break from work and want to create something meaningful for your family or friends, I highly recommend card-making. ...
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Fading In Oil Painting
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Fading In Oil Painting

Elena Nahum Leroy Posted on September 8, 2024 0
Oil paints are indeed quite delicate and demand a significant amount of knowledge and skill to master. Success in oil painting involves not only ...
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Fat Over Lean Complications
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Fat Over Lean Complications

Elena Nahum Leroy Posted on July 19, 2024 0
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 ...
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Recipes For Oil Painting Mediums
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Recipes For Oil Painting Mediums

Elena Nahum Leroy Posted on June 1, 2024 0
When working with oil paint, artists often utilize various mediums to achieve specific artistic objectives. Allow me to introduce some traditional recipes that were ...
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Turpentine Oil vs. Mineral Spirit
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Turpentine Oil vs. Mineral Spirit

Elena Nahum Leroy Posted on March 8, 2024 0
When using oil colors for painting, it is common to thin the paint for more precise application, glazing, or improved blending. While linseed oil ...
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Acrylic vs. Oil: Conservation Properties
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Acrylic vs. Oil: Conservation Properties

Elena Nahum Leroy Posted on September 22, 2023 2
Many artists dream about having their work exhibited in museums that would preserve art for generations. Even if your painting is not going to ...
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RUSART Retouching Medium in Use
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RUSART Retouching Medium in Use

Elena Test Posted on November 4, 2022 0
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 ...
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How To Use Watercolour Medium?
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How To Use Watercolour Medium?

Elena Test Posted on September 28, 2022 0
If for oil or acrylic painting we have many mediums to choose from that serve in a different way, watercolour medium sounds a little ...
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How to use tinting pastes?
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How to use tinting pastes?

Elena Test Posted on September 12, 2022 0
Tinting pastes have very wide range of use and will bring more ideas to creative artists. However, there are only few artists who ever ...
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How to choose right canvas: Part III, Sizing and Priming
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How to choose right canvas: Part III, Sizing and Priming

Elena Test Posted on April 15, 2022 0
How to choose the right canvas and why they are different - are most common questions in any art shop. We’ve already talked about ...
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How to Clean Brushes From Oil Painting?
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How to Clean Brushes From Oil Painting?

Elena Test Posted on March 15, 2022 0
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 ...
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How to choose right canvas for your goals – Part II (Support)
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How to choose right canvas for your goals – Part II (Support)

Elena Test Posted on February 21, 2022 0
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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How to choose right canvas for your goals – Part I (Canvas)
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How to choose right canvas for your goals – Part I (Canvas)

Elena Test Posted on January 17, 2022 0
When you paint on canvas, the canvas itself is the first thing to take care of. There is no one best canvas for all ...
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How To Read Paint Labels
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How To Read Paint Labels

Elena Test Posted on November 19, 2021 0
That’s very important to know what you’re buying and some information about your paints is available on labels: paint name grade pigment used binder ...
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Oil Painting Essentials
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Oil Painting Essentials

Elena Test Posted on October 19, 2021 0
All oil painters have their own lists of oil painting essentials for everyday work. There are many tools, mediums, brushes and many colours available so ...
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Copal in oil painting
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Copal in oil painting

Elena Test Posted on September 19, 2021 0
There are many different kinds of additives and enhancers exist for oil painting (including copal resin) and all they have their own use. In ...
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Hog Bristle Brushes In Use
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Hog Bristle Brushes In Use

Elena Nahum Leroy Posted on August 21, 2021 0
This time we'll talk about how to choose hog bristle brushes. As always, we'll cover many aspects: use, sources, benefits and ethical questions. What is special ...
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How to choose linseed oil for painting?
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How to choose linseed oil for painting?

Elena Nahum Leroy Posted on May 4, 2021 0
How to choose oil for painting is the most common question for artists, both beginners and professionals. Trying and choosing right materials determine how ...
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How To Use Watercolours in Sticks
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How To Use Watercolours in Sticks

Elena Nahum Leroy Posted on April 24, 2021 0
Watercolours as any other medium have pigment and binder inside. Pigment is what brings colours, normally, in a powder from. And binder is kind ...
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