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Forum Post Watercolor paper buckles
Yes, I believe I specifically mentioned soaking the paper. Lots of my printmaker friends dry their prints by stretching the damp paper on boards with glued paper tape. They just cut the paper insi...
Forum Post I have been enjoying drawing with pastels on brown paper, bu...
I have been enjoying drawing with pastels on brown paper, but am worried about the acidity of this paper and was wondering if anyone know of ways to avoid the process of deterioration. Would gesso on ...
Forum Post Mounting Paper on Canvas
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...
Forum Post Standard water color paper versus stndard frame sizes?
...rcolors are USUALLY matted so that the size of the frame is based on the dimensions of the matt, not the paper itself. Some framers like very wide matt borders while others are more economical. In oth...
Forum Post What paper do you use for animal painting?
What paper do you use for animal painting?
Forum Post What paper would take all mediums mainly graphite, though, a...
What paper would take all mediums mainly graphite, though, and would keep over time, without it putting me in the poor house?
Forum Post Do you always wet the paper before you start, or does it dep...
Do you always wet the paper before you start, or does it depend on what you want to paint? are there any rules of thumb or is it just a matter of personal preference?
Forum Post i painted on some kind of linen paper and it buckled what sh...
i painted on some kind of linen paper and it buckled what should i do
Forum Post where can I get water color paper that fits a frame?? AAAAAA...
where can I get water color paper that fits a frame?? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Forum Post How can I get quality prints made of my digital artwork?
Depends on how large you want them, but most good inkjet printers do a great job as long as you use good paper. I use epson ultra premium matte paper on an epson r1800 and the results are great. It ca...
Forum Post Does anyone make there own paints or altering store bought p...
fold a piece of paper in half. spread a nut of tubed oil paint onto the paper. the paper will obsorb the oil after a few minutes. scrape off pigment and mix with a drop or two of medium. i like to use...
Forum Post Pen and Ink artists
...tonal effects, at least until the ink is thoroughly set. I usually use them on a reasonably good drawing paper, like Strathmore 80lb; they do tend to block on paper with a looser surface. Some exa...
Forum Post How do you get a nice print out of a scratch board? What kin...
How do you get a nice print out of a scratch board? What kind of paper do you use?
Forum Post how do you get a good solid line with pastels, without the t...
how do you get a good solid line with pastels, without the tooth of the paper showing?
Forum Post Prints from Plexiglass...
Speaking of monoprinting - not engravings: Getting watercolor to 'stick' to acrylic can be tricky, even in the best of circumstances. To ease that chore, one needs to learn to use '...
Forum Post Does anyone here do any digital drawing? I find that I am mo...
Does anyone here do any digital drawing? I find that I am more comfortable with pencil and paper than using the tablet, and I was wondering if this was normal? how do you deal with it?
Forum Post New Nikart Works
...taught me how to blend the pencil and crayons under a heat lamp - the wax melts and blends. His favorite paper became my favorite and I've mentioned many times how versatile Rising Co. 'Ston...
Forum Post an Acrylic Blending technique?
Rubbing with a paper towel or Q-tip dipped in rubbing alcohol will disolve selected areas of acrylic paint... excellent when there are many layers of varying colors... also when you need to 'eras...
Forum Post Two questions about working with pastel- How do you use the ...
To make hard lines sharpen your chalk to a point on a piece of sand paper. You can use other mediums (I use pencils) to make the hard lines. As for blending, I found my fingers the most effective blen...
Forum Post Watercolor NEWBIE..please help
...or 4 basic techniques in watercolor. The 'wash' is thinned out paint brushed smoothly over the paper. The 'dry brush' is removing some of that thinned out paint from the brush and ...
Forum Post art shipping ?
...tter than wood, as wood always gets mashed in transport and plastic is reusable. Maybe it was in the ASW Paper not sure but worth the search. Good Luck...
Forum Post Rolled watercolors?
...pness and water. Include instructions for the people at the other end to put them between large blotting paper and press them overnight to flatten them. The tubes will protect them well. M. On...
Forum Post Atists and the internet
...interested to hear form artists who have set up their own web gallery. I am researching an article for a paper and would like to hear how artists use their web sites and if anything has come of it. Ha...
Forum Post How do I get a picture authenticated?
... it may be a lithograph, but if so, why are there no more and why can I feel paint on the surface of the paper. So many questions, but no answers! Can anyone help please? (When I can, I will attach a ...
Forum Post Portfolio Questions
...click off a photo? Or do I somehow scan the work? Do I frame the work and photograph it, or just pin the paper to a white wall or something. I'm clueless. I'm sure I shouldn't pack ...
Forum Post Art and chemical influence
...l and god. My friend recently wrote on the implications of brain-switching/consciousness in a philosophy paper, and the sum-up was that the closer we get to being simply chemical machines whose action...
Forum Post Klee, "Dance, Monster, to My Soft Song!"
Klee's 1922 watercolor and oil transfer drawing on plaster-primed gauze bordered with watercolor on paper mount "TANZ DU UNGEHEUR ZU MEINEM SANFTEN LIED" (this title is traced with oil ...
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