What Are The Rules on Copyrighting Your Artwork?
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- July 10, 2015
- Useful Info, art, copyright
I wrote this article a few years ago and thought it might be interesting to visitors of this site. Art Copyright – What To Do Many artists wonder what they need to do in order to keep the copyright of their artwork so in this article I will attempt to explain exactly that. Firstly I …
Read MoreNew Style of Painting
So after setting up the subscribe option on this website, almost as an experiment, I have been surprised by the number of subscribers that I already have! This makes me question what the subscribers want to hear about (please feel free to share your thoughts below) and hence what to write about. So I have …
Read MoreCreating a Textured Abstract Painting
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- December 14, 2014
- Acrylic Painting, Applying Texture, Painting, Textured Paintings, Video
Ok so I have finished the video of the creation of a new painting for my lounge. Obviously I couldn’t video every minute of creating the painting as the video would have been too long! Often I spent time just painting over and over to get the right effect. For me the key here is …
Read MoreNew Video Coming
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- December 10, 2014
- Painting Tips, Video
A while back I made a video of how to create a swirled abstract painting in acrylics and uploaded it to YouTube. I’ll share the link in case you are interested. As it has become really popular I thought I would also create a video of ‘how to create an abstract painting for your home’ …
Read MoreTissue Paper for Texture
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- May 10, 2014
- Acrylic Painting, Applying Texture, Painting Texture
If you want a quick and easy way to add texture to your paintings then you can use tissue (the type you blow your nose on!) or tissue paper. ideally you would use PVA to apply the tissue to the canvas but if you don’t have any then you can just use acrylic paint. Either …
Read MoreGreat Texture Additive!
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- February 2, 2014
- Painting Texture, Texture Ingredients, gesso, sawdust
So I had some lessons a number of year ago from an abstract artist who also used a lot of texture in his paintings. I was already working as an abstract artist at that point in time but I always think that you can learn plenty of new tips and tricks from other artists on …
Read MoreDecorator’s Caulk for Paintings
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- January 2, 2014
- Painting Texture, Texture Ingredients
A few years ago I picked up some tubes of squeezable decorators caulk to try out on creating some shapes and lines on some paintings. They turned out quite well and it is really easy to use. It is quite a flexible substance so it works well on canvas and it is easy to apply. …
Read MoreNew Paintings with Heavy Texture
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- July 29, 2013
- Mixed Media, Painting
These last couple of weeks I have been working on a new set of paintings that have some really heavy texture on them. I used the stucco and PVA mixture but I had a tub of slightly old stucco that was starting to get a bit dry at the edges. However, I made the most …
Read MoreUsing a Small Amount of Texture
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- March 3, 2013
- Acrylic Painting, Textured Paintings
So sometimes less is more but adding a small amount of texture to your paintings can really enhance the final look. For this painting I used a small amount of texture in the white splash of waves – some of it was quite thick – to give the enhanced effect of the waves crashing. It …
Read MoreTexturing Over Old Paintings
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- October 3, 2012
- Painting, Painting Tips
So with my texture mix you can reuse old paintings that no longer work for you. You can use gesso to do this too, particularly with acrylic paintings. But if you have oil paintings that have dried out completely (I’m talking years) then it is pretty safe to put a good layer of texture over …
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