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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In this third and last article in our series about the Fome Etching Press, we demonstrate how to adapt this popular intaglio printing press so it can be used for relief printing and how to get the ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

Monotype printmaking is a quick and simple process. Technically, a monotype is only one impression, so the work you create is a unique work on paper. But there is often the ability to create ‘ghost ...

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 ...

Many art historians consider Impressionism to be the first distinctly modern movement in painting. It started in the 1860s in Paris and the ideas of the movement spread throughout Europe and ...

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 ...

Most people assume they know all there is to know about erasers. But there are different types for different jobs and you are more likely to get the result you want if you use the right tool. After ...