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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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Artist Interview: Liz West

Artist Interview: Liz West

Catherine Peters

February is a short month, bringing awareness that Spring is just around the corner, leaving grey freezing temperatures behind, welcoming colour into our surroundings. We are bringing colour onto our blog...

Artist Interview: Liz West

Catherine Peters

February is a short month, bringing awareness that Spring is just around the corner, leaving grey freezing temperatures behind, welcoming colour into our surroundings. We are bringing colour onto our blog...

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An Artists' Guide to Charcoal?

An Artists' Guide to Charcoal?

Ellie Jakeman

Charcoal has been and is still used by many fine artists, illustrators, and performing kinetic artists. There are many types of charcoal on the market today that can be used...

An Artists' Guide to Charcoal?

Ellie Jakeman

Charcoal has been and is still used by many fine artists, illustrators, and performing kinetic artists. There are many types of charcoal on the market today that can be used...

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Tim Muddiman - image credit: Phil Sharp

Artist Interview: Tim Muddiman

Catherine Peters

Tim Muddiman is an English artist, musician and creative. In his own words, Tim's work is "an exploration of the human condition through contrasts: strength and fragility, depth and height, colour...

Artist Interview: Tim Muddiman

Catherine Peters

Tim Muddiman is an English artist, musician and creative. In his own words, Tim's work is "an exploration of the human condition through contrasts: strength and fragility, depth and height, colour...

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Your guide to drawing accessories

Your guide to drawing accessories

Ellie Jakeman

After finding that all important pencil set that suits all your needs, the next step is to make sure you have all those little extras to complete your tool kit!...

Your guide to drawing accessories

Ellie Jakeman

After finding that all important pencil set that suits all your needs, the next step is to make sure you have all those little extras to complete your tool kit!...

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Understanding Sketching Pencils and Graphite

Understanding Sketching Pencils and Graphite

Ellie Jakeman

The pencil that you hold in your hand does not contain lead! This is a misconception, it is actually graphite, also known as plumbago or black lead.

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Understanding Sketching Pencils and Graphite

Ellie Jakeman

The pencil that you hold in your hand does not contain lead! This is a misconception, it is actually graphite, also known as plumbago or black lead.

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Headshot, image credit: Lee Smillie

Artist Interview: Jamie Holman

Catherine Peters

Jamie Holman is an Artist, writer and lecturer based in his home town of Blackburn. Works from this collection have been exhibited at The Royal College of Art, The Saatchi Gallery Magazine and...

Artist Interview: Jamie Holman

Catherine Peters

Jamie Holman is an Artist, writer and lecturer based in his home town of Blackburn. Works from this collection have been exhibited at The Royal College of Art, The Saatchi Gallery Magazine and...

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Lapis Lazuli or Lapis

Lapis Lazuli or Lapis

Ellie Jakeman

Lapis Lazuli is thought of as a semi precious stone, it is in fact a rich deep-blue metamorphic rock (metaphoric means it has undergone transformation by heat, pressure, or other...

Lapis Lazuli or Lapis

Ellie Jakeman

Lapis Lazuli is thought of as a semi precious stone, it is in fact a rich deep-blue metamorphic rock (metaphoric means it has undergone transformation by heat, pressure, or other...

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