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A Brief Guide to Acrylic Mediums & Additives

A Brief Guide to Acrylic Mediums & Additives

Ben Platt

Discover a new way to think about using acrylic paints while you learn about the various mediums and additives that you can use with acrylic paint to expand your creative potential.

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A Brief Guide to Acrylic Mediums & Additives

Ben Platt

Discover a new way to think about using acrylic paints while you learn about the various mediums and additives that you can use with acrylic paint to expand your creative potential.

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What is Gesso, Size and Ground?

What is Gesso, Size and Ground?

Ben Platt

Traditionally Gesso was a mixture of gypsum plaster and chalk mixed with water and other binders to make a white slurry that creates an absorbent surface for painting on.

What is Gesso, Size and Ground?

Ben Platt

Traditionally Gesso was a mixture of gypsum plaster and chalk mixed with water and other binders to make a white slurry that creates an absorbent surface for painting on.

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Can You Varnish a Watercolour Painting? Here’s What You Need to Know

Can You Varnish a Watercolour Painting? Here’s ...

Ellie Jakeman

The purists would answer that watercolour paintings should be behind museum quality, anti-reflective, conservation UV filtered glass, and confined within a frame. And most watercolour paintings are, as this used...

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Can You Varnish a Watercolour Painting? Here’s What You Need to Know

Ellie Jakeman

The purists would answer that watercolour paintings should be behind museum quality, anti-reflective, conservation UV filtered glass, and confined within a frame. And most watercolour paintings are, as this used...

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Acrylic Pouring Mediums: How to Get Started

Acrylic Pouring Mediums: How to Get Started

catherine peters

If you are feeling the urge to play with paint and colour then using an acrylic paint pouring medium, also known as fluid art and liquid art, is the perfect...

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Acrylic Pouring Mediums: How to Get Started

catherine peters

If you are feeling the urge to play with paint and colour then using an acrylic paint pouring medium, also known as fluid art and liquid art, is the perfect...

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