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New Paintings for Exhibition

So I have 4 paintings going into an exhibition starting today and I thought I would share a few pictures as three of them involve plenty of texture and each one has a different type of texture under it. They are all abstract paintings as per my usual style. Painting 1 is similar to two ...

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Trying Different Texture Mediums

So I moved house recently, well I didn’t exactly move, I sold one place and am waiting on another so all my stuff is in storage. When I put it in storage I thought that it would only be a couple of weeks before I could get it all out again but now it is ...

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Using Tile Adhesive for Texture

So someone recently asked me if you could use tile adhesive in a texture mix instead of the stucco that I usually use. Well I had to say that I did not know if tile adhesive would work as a painting base as I had never tried it. I had tried plenty of powder based ...

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Painting a Sky in Acrylics

So I wanted to share with you the method I used to create a really nice blurred background sky in acrylics. The painting that this was for actually only contains texture for the main focus of the artwork – the seagull. I wanted to create the seagull as raised on its own with the sky ...

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Collectors Advised to Sell Damien Hirst Art

So the Independent reported today that collectors were being advised to sell any Damien Hirst items as soon as possible, before the market completely dropped for them*.

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Using Tissue in Paintings

Another item that I use to make texture in paintings is just plain tissue. I’m talking about the tissues you use to blow your nose on but you can use any other type of tissue really.

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Adding Cuttings to a Painting

If you want to get into mixed media painting and maybe include some cuttings in your composition – these can be newspaper clippings, printed photos on A4 paper, or things that you cut out of books or magazines then there are a few ways that you can apply these things to the canvas and they ...

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Cheap Canvases in the UK

If you are an artist working in the UK and you paint on canvas, then no doubt you try and find the best priced canvases at the best quality like I do. My preferred canvases are Winsor & Newton with Daler Rowney coming a close second. I find the Winsor & Newton box canvases are ...

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Using Old Paint

Don’t forget that as well as using a base coat of a thick texture or texture paste, or adding some kind of texture to your paint – like sand or powdered plaster, that you can create some extra texture on a painting just by using old paint. If you have any left over paint on your palette ...

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Cleaning Brushes

Oil Paint When you are working with oil paints it is important that you keep the brushes clean so that the fibres do not splay and the brushes remain useable for many years. If you buy quality brushes then they can be quite expensive and therefore you need to spend time cleaning them so that ...

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