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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 ...
The market of art supplies now is full of chaos (maybe, it always was). Some paints or brushes cost just a few dollars, while ...
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 ...
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 ...
Naples yellow is a pigment named after the city of Naples in Italy. The origins of Naples yellow remain unclear, but it's one of ...
Historically, artists have issues finding pigments that would provide intense primary colours. Most mineral pigments used belonged to colours found in clays, or earth: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When you paint on canvas, the canvas itself is the first thing to take care of. There is no one best canvas for all ...
Most oil paints separate and there are many reasons for that, good and not really. There are few myths around it, that I (Elena ...
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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Watercolour paints have much longer history than oil and, of course, acrylics. It appeared in China in the 2nd century AD, when paper was ...
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 ...
Now we can see more and more labels saying “water-based paint” or “water-based varnish” or “water-based medium”. In fact, only few kinds of products ...
When we buy art supplies for children, the first thing we think about is safety. With this in mind we search for "nontoxic" labeled ...