The fluid acrylics line from Golden are a highly intense and permanent paint with the consistency similar to that of heavy cream. The pigment strength used in these paints is very similar to the pigment load that is used to make Golden’s Heavy Body Acrylics. The only real difference is the consistency. These paints are […]
Blick Presents – Chroma Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paint
Chroma Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paint is a professional, high quality acrylic paint available in 75 colors. These paints have a wonderful buttery consistency and dry to a rich satin finish with little to no color shift. As you know, acrylic paints do have their drawbacks. They dry quickly, colors change value when dry and you […]
Blick Presents – Sennelier Extra Fine Watercolors
Sennelier Extra Fine Watercolors have been around for over 100 years and are still a favorite amongst artists of today. If you were to go back in time , you would have seen Artists like Cezanne, Gauguin, Monet and Picasso using these wonderful paints. Sennelier Extra Fine Watercolors come in a wide variety of colors, […]
Realistic Pencil Portrait Mastery Review – Home Study Course by Christopher Sia
Realistic Pencil Portrait Mastery Review Not too long ago, Christopher Sia contacted me to ask me if I might be interested in recommending his Home Study Course Realistic Pencil Portrait Mastery to my visitors. He indicated that this course is designed specifically to teach you how to draw faces realistically, as pictured in the image to […]
Blick Presents: Prismacolor Pencils – Verithin, Art Stix and Colored Pencils
Prismacolor is a popular brand of professional artist supplies offering a variety of products including colored pencils, markers, pastels, charcoal and graphite. In this post, the folks over at Dick Blick will be discussing the popular colored pencil products that Prismacolor offers: Colored Pencils, Verithin and Art Stix. The Art Stix are available in 48 […]
Blick Presents – Winsor & Newton Artist’s Watercolor
Winsor & Newton Artist’s Watercolors have been around since 1832 and since that time they have been producing some of the finest watercolor paint known to man. Winsor & Newton currently offers 96 beautiful colors in their line and a lot of these are single pigment colors, and with single pigment colors, you get brighter […]
Blick Presents: Liquitex Slow-Dri Acrylic Mediums and Additives
As we all know, acrylic paint dries very quickly and there are times when we would prefer the paint to remain workable for longer periods of time. You could always switch to oil paints, but for those of us who love acrylic paints, this is not an option. Acrylic paint starts to dry and form […]
Grumbacher Max Paint
Grumbacher Max oil paints are a water miscible (also known as “water soluble” or “water mixable”) paint invented in 1983, that were the first water miscible oil paints sold on the market. It is hard to believe that any kind of oil paint could be mixed with water. It seems to defy physics and go […]
Blick Presents: PanPastel and Sofft Tools Tips and Techniques
In the following video, Ladd Forsline with Colorfin LLC demonstrates how to work with the wonderful pastels “PanPastel”. These are not your ordinary pastels folks. Instead of coming in the usual stick form, they are made in little pan like containers and applied with tools called “Sofft Tools”. Its a very unique and interesting way […]
Oil Paint Review – Chroma Archival Oils
I recently started using a new brand of Oil Paints called Chroma Archival Oils. I like these paints so much that I thought I would do a short review post. I started using these oils after hearing about them in a home study course called Mastering Color by Richard Robinson. Chroma Archival Oils are a […]