How To Paint A Christmas Tree – Three Different Ways Are you looking to learn how to paint a Christmas Tree for your next acrylic painting project? There’s quite a few different ways you can paint Christmas trees! Depending on what style tree you want to do, different brushes and …
Do you have a painting you messed up on and certain you want to paint over? We all have our fair share of “mess up paintings”. There’s no shame in it. Messing up means you’re practicing, taking risks and growing in your painting skills! But what do you do with …
Tips For Using A Black Canvas If you’ve never painted on a black pre-primed canvas surface before, it may seem a little out of your comfort zone. I get a lot of questions from beginner painters regarding this concept. Do I buy a black canvas? How do I make my …
Acrylic Painting Techniques With A Round Brush This post will explain in detail some acrylic painting techniques using a round brush. A round brush is one of many types of acrylic painting brushes. They range in size from a very large radius to a very tiny radius. The typical round …
Using Paint Pens On Canvas Friends, I’ve been dying to purchase a set of paint pens, specifically the POSCA ones, to try on my canvas paintings because there are so many times when I’m adding detailed work to my art that I wish I just had a paint pen in …
Mountain Painting Tutorial Learn how to paint mountains with acrylics. This online tutorial will show you the techniques for rendering mountains on your canvas. There are several different ways you can go about doing mountains in paintings. A popular technique is to use a palette knife. It helps to create …
How To Clean & Restore Your Brushes With The Masters Brush Cleaner If you use (and abuse) your paint brushes often, chances are they eventually get out of shape, stained, have bits of paint residue and feel harder. While it is recommended that you thoroughly clean your brushes …
Do I Need to Prime my Canvas Before Painting with Acrylics? This question is very common! The answer actually depends on the canvas that you purchase. Most, if not all, canvases that you buy at your typical craft stores are already primed for acrylic painting. If the canvas is …
How To Paint Silhouette Trees With A Fan Brush (With Video) Hello artist friends! I feel inspired to write this post because a fan brush is such a handy tool if you would like to paint pine trees in you acrylic paintings! This post specifically demonstrates how to paint silhouette …
16 Tips For Beginning With Acrylic Painting This post will give you some motivational pep-talk tips and advice for beginning with acrylic painting. You bought your brushes, your bulk pack of canvases from Michael’s, your entry level beginner acrylic paint set. Everything is so shiny and new! As you slice …
Over the years of running this website, I’ve learned a few tricks along the way about how to do enlarge (or shrink) traceables for all sorts of canvas sizes. In this post, I will describe one little hack that works if you are using a PC with an HP printer …
Acrylic Painting Techniques There are various types of acrylic painting techniques that artists use to create different effects. To create those different effects, we grab different sizes and shapes of brushes. If you are the absolute beginner to acrylic painting, this post is meant to help you build some basic …