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Hi all, This year I started painting - acrylics on canvas. I completed my 12th abstract painting and am very happy with it. After it dried, I added another layer of Raw Umber paint onto the back
...ays a thrill! I am a mom to two lovely daughters and a wife to a great guy. I love painting and have tried acrylics and am just now getting back to oils after many years away from it. Anyway, just wan...
...ing what all you artists who photograph and document your work have decided is the best course for oil and acrylic paintings. Thanks a mil.. Slick...
I have, on several occasions, mentioned the substitution of acrylic house paint for acrylic gesso. The products I use is labeled '100 percent acrylic' and not 'acrylic latex.' The house paint works pa
I am asking other painters what they feel about using gesso as white paint instead of tube or jar pigment. So far I cannot see the difference. I have actually liked the look of the gesso better. The
...vas covered boards for oil painting, though sold as primed, should always still be given a few coatings of acrylic primer. I'd like to read any comments on this advice....
...ique for the following mix media project. I'm doing print on canvas, and after that I need to paint with acrylic. I was trying that couple time but acrylic paint peeling off the canvas. Please hel...
Hi I have done paintings (oil) on paper (which was first coated with acrylic Gloss Medium Varnish) which I want to mount onto canvas. Any suggestions how this would be done, or can you refer me to a
...nters. The cover photo is by one of the 8 featured in the article, one Bruce Pearson, who combines oil and acrylic paints on Styrofoam. The examples in the article are dimensioned as 6 X 7 feet, so th...
As a beginner, my teacher has restricted me to five colors: cad. red med. cad. yellow med. ultramarine blue titan. white mars black I've decided to go with Golden paints, but am uncertain if I should
I've started experimenting with glazes in acrylic (I'm using Liquitex gloss medium). Some effects that I've managed to achieve are quite satisfying, but I wasn't able to achieve an acceptable effect w
I am thinking of having offset prints made of my acrylic paintings and selling them directly. I live in a high tourist area. A minimum print run would cost about 46 cents (US) for each print. I am thi
I put acrylic matte varnish on a painting a couple of months ago. The climate was hot and humid. Now there a few spots here and there of a light bluish film. Does any serious poster know of this? I ca
...re a couple of weeks ago. I did not know these kits had improved so much - they have them for watercolors, acrylics, and oils!! And the pictures to paint are the works of the old masters! I told my ...
...t it already has a coat of white paint on it going to cause a problem ? PS - I will be using it to do an acrylic painting....
... white primer just where the images would be? What are some other techniques to use watercolor, gauache or acrylic pigments on dark substrate such as lauan plywood or masonite? Thanks,...
...hly valuable paintings, is there a better vendor to be using ? Also, what is the difference between oil or acrylic paints ? Thank you !...
Does anyone know of any websites dedicated to acrylic painter Laura Anderson (from Massachusetts)? Does anyone know if she has any books out teaching her painting techniques? Thanks,
I recently bought some Winsor Newton Matte Acrylic Varnish. It was about 3 years old. I poured it into a jar containing a small amount of water to dilute it a little for varnishing a painting. But alo
this new web site? http://www.ombreheris.com/ Gallery french painter (illustration, Acrylics...)
...g' the framed article, but rather I was addressing the practice of painting the reverse of the canvas with acrylic varnish. What you need to understand is that canvas (speaking of cotton here) comes...
A young friend just got into plastic (styrene, I believe) model kits and asked if he could use my acrylic paints on them when they are glued together. I told him I would ask you pros as I am just gett
...ut only recently got around to stealing it back from a friend of mine and scanning it for the web. It's an acrylic on canvas face named 'Vlad'. http://www.nikart.com/newer/57.html I can't remember...
... touch-ups here and there? or 2) for painting the whole picture OVER GICLEE print? I mean OIL PAINT, not acrylic. Thank you. Weaving the Conundrum...
Is there such a thing as an acrylic marker? If so could someone please give me some info? thanks eric
Prepared canvas available commercially usually has an acrylic foundation that is not completely compatible with oil painting. The old masters used compatible surface preparations. Can somebody suggest
Hello, while searching in some Acrylic painting books for techniques on blending. I found two artists that mentioned a technique called 'scrubbing'. Samples of their work looked nice. Does anyone know

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