Oil and acrylic paintings these days are most often created on canvas. Canvas replaced wood panels for painting during the Renaissance because stretching canvas across wooden bars allowed for larger ...

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Sometimes art terms can be confusing. Some words mean more than one thing or one product can be called two or three different names. A case in point is the words, Size, Primer, Gesso, and Ground.

Lustrous and versatile, oil painting has appealed to artists since the Middle Ages. Oil is widely considered to be the most popular medium in the tradition of Western painting. Painters from Van Eyck ...

Jackson’s introduced Yupo Paper a couple of months ago to our range of papers for watercolour and mixed media. After reading the description of the paper, that it is non-porous, waterproof and ...

Understanding the different brush shapes and fibre types can help you to make better and more informed decisions when investing in new brushes, so that you end up with tools you love working with. In ...

Submissions are now open for the tenth anniversary year of the annual international fine art competition. Enter before 25th February 2025.

A Posca Pen allows you to control the application of rich, opaque water-based paint, in fine or broad lines, making it perfect for painting and drawing! The markers contain real paint that dries ...

It's easy to sign up and requires no technical knowledge to use. Our Affiliate Program is designed exclusively for artists, art educators, art demonstrators, art influencers, art groups, and art ...

Submissions for Jackson’s Art Prize 2025 are now open! Enter before 25th February 2025. ENTER HERE Now celebrating its tenth year, Jackson’s internationally ...

There are a few reasons that you might want to start your painting on a dark ground. Some pigments are naturally transparent and some are opaque. Oil and acrylic paints will indicate the opacity on ...

Whilst we understand that Carbon offsetting is not as ideal as avoiding fossil fuel use in the first place, we do believe that it is a step in the right direction. As a result, we have decided to ...