This acrylic painting exercise uses 3 primary colors: cyan blue, yellow, and magenta. I also add titanium white and matte medium to my palette. I first laid out the paint and premixed some colors. The first layer is just random dark marks, The second layer … Continue readingAcrylic Painting Exercise: Primary Colors
Want to eliminate the texture on a canvas before you paint? You can gesso/sand and gesso/sand or mix Floetrol Flood with gesso (consistency of cream) and paint it on the canvas. Floetrol is a commercial paint additive that conditions paint – eliminates brush strokes, so … Continue readingEliminate Canvas Texture
A laser print transfer is another way to enhance mixed media artwork. In my example, I wished to have a crossword puzzle from a Burmese newspaper as the background for my Buddha image. This would have taken a considerable amount of time to paint or … Continue readingLaser Print Transfer
I frequently do acrylic painting exercises on an inexpensive canvas. I typically will work on a 16 x 20 size and buy these in bulk from a craft store. All of my paintings begin this way: play mode. It is important to get started, to … Continue readingAcrylic Painting Exercise
Once you have some essential painting supplies (key mixing colors) you may wish to buy some other acrylic paint colors, etc. I recommend having tracing paper (large pad) as this has many uses including providing a key part of an acrylic palette. The palette (next … Continue readingAcrylic Painting Process: Optional Supplies
Now that you have setup a place to paint (see Setup post), you need to get some paint and a few other essential supplies. Acrylic paint is expensive, some colors more so than others. In order to get started, you need 5 colors and a … Continue readingAcrylic Painting Process: Essential supplies
Now that you’ve read the previous post, “Acrylic Painting Process Intro” you are ready to setup your work space. Before you begin to paint, you need to setup a suitable space and it doesn’t need to be that large. I recommend two tables, one large … Continue readingAcrylic Painting Process: Setup
The quality of acrylic paints and acrylic gels/mediums has improved quite a bit in the past 20 years. This has resulted in a huge increase in the popularity of this medium. The other good news is that they dry really fast and that can also … Continue readingAcrylic Painting Process Intro
I use a basic recipe: 500 grams of bleached/filtered bee’s wax, 80 grams of dammar resin, and 10 or 15 grams of carnauba wax (optional). The resin and carnauba wax raise the melting point of the wax, creating a harder surface. Bleached bee’s wax is … Continue readingEncaustic Technique
It is possible to hand print etchings without a press – successfully! Remove the lid from an empty glass baby food jar and attach a short piece of wood, for gripping, to the lid with a strong adhesive and screws. This must be a glass … Continue readingHand Print Etchings