The accidental effects and unpredictable behavior of different pigments are what make watercolor so interesting. This nature of watercolor also calls for watercolor painters to follow extra caution. In this article we will look at some mistakes that watercolor beginners commit and guide you on how to avoid them while making your watercolor paintings.
Watercolor painting is extremely old, dating perhaps to the cave paintings found in various civilizations. Painting with watercolor can become a very addictive pastime. Watercolor is not a medium to be mastered or conquered. The accidental effects and unpredictable behavior of different pigments are what make watercolor so interesting.
These bold blossoms are fun to make and sure to add a bright touch to a Flower Party or any festive event. You can also make smaller flower by taking small sheets of tissue papers. Go ahead and create colorful flowers for your flower pot.
Brighten your home with a touch of spring: a bouquet of easy-to-care-for paper lilies.They are so easy, you can make a full bouquet within an hour or two. These lilies looks very elegant and beautiful.
Salt dough is a great way to model favorite fun characters, festive decorations, styling your house or even ornaments and handmade gifts. You need no special skills, tools, equipments or ingredients for this very inexpensive hobby.
Learn how to paint with acrylic paint, including tips on supplies, techniques and benefits of acrylics with this free series of video art lessons.
We are going to talk about the different types of paints, oil versus watercolor versus acrylics. One thing about acrylics is, it can be changed if you make a mistake, when you paint with watercolor, it is a wonderful medium, but if you do lay the paint down a lot of times it doesn’t come back up. With oils for example it is a great medium also, the only problem is the time that it takes to dry.
I would like to show you the difference about different kinds of paints that are used in Acrylics. The student basics versus the professional basics. These are four types of paints that I like to use and one is a student grade or academy grade and it does work very well.
We are going to show you the basics on the color wheel. Your primary colors for example are red, yellow and blue. Your secondary colors are purple, which are between red and blue, orange between red and yellow and green, between yellow and blue.
We are going to show you some of the types of items and supplies that you need to start painting in acrylics. We will start with brushes for example, as I explained before.
We are going to show you different types of paint brushes for acrylic painting. First of all we will start with a big one for example. This is for blending. This one here is what we call a flat and we use that to cover more paint on the backgrounds.
We are going to show you different surfaces to paint on in acrylics. The first we can start with is the original canvas cloth with a spreader sticks. We also have a canvas panel. It is canvas glued on hard panel.