Additional at Home Supplies
Palette knives with a rounded tip, are more suited to mixing paints on your palette. Palette knives with a pointed tip like a trowel are suited more for painting on …
Helpful Articles and Hints
Paint Types and Reading Labels
Lightfastness, also known as permanence is how much the paint color will hold up over time after it’s exposed to light. Generally acrylics have a higher lightfast ratings than other types of paint.
Purchasing Paint
Some brands are better than others, but what it comes down to, is personal preference. The brands we listed below are reliable and reputable. Some are budget friendly some are not. We suggest if you are a beginner just starting out, then student grade is great and it wont break the bank to experiment with.
Links provided below, so you can easily find them on Blick Art Materials, our favorite online paint supplier.
Investing in Brushes
If you’re just starting out, there is no need to spend a ton of money on paint brushes, in fact I suggest you don’t. Start affordable and work your way …
Paint Brush Shapes
Flat ferrule, short-length hairs, set with longer hairs at one end. Useful for precise strokes, and for lines and curves, with thick or heavy color. Sponges, daubers, and Q-tips are …
Image Transfers/Paper/Projectors
Transfer paper is an amazing tool for painters of all skill levels. They enable you to transfer/trace an image on to your paintable surface by simply placing your image over and tracing with a pencil.
Finding a Reference Photo for sellable original art?
This topic is 50 shade of grey all in itself. There are so many variables at play with this. The most simple solution is DONT COPY OTHER ARTIST WORK!… unless you have actual permission from the artist or photographer. There are many free reference photo websites with thousands of photos that are specific for artists to use. If you are planning on selling your artwork I highly recommend researching this topic yourself. Copyright laws and definitions are just as ever changing as tax laws.
Copy Cat or Instructional?
Artists are collectors of ideas. Art is: taking an idea, adding to it with other ideas in your head, and making a new idea. New ideas are constantly being created through our experience of everyday life. Our creations are a mix of everything we have lived, felt, or heard. Artists are always changing as ideas evolve.