Types of Paint

Acrylic paint is the newest of the widely used artistic mediums having been developed for commercial use as recently as the 1950’. It quickly became popular with artists and is now perhaps the most ...

Gouache is an often overlooked paint medium comprised of watercolour mixed with chalk to give it an entirely opaque effect. Cheaper than high quality oil paint, and easier to use for the fact that ...

Oil paint is made by mixing pigment with an oil binder. Painters have employed it long before it became popularly available (it had previously proved too expensive to use). Generally Jan Van Eyck ...

As well as there being a wide variety of paints there are a wide variety of mediums that can be mixed with and added to the various paints to create different styles and effects. For some people, ...

Watercolour is a medium often overlooked as old fashioned and suited only to landscape sketches. This is unfair as watercolour has unique opportunities to be used either experimentally or as it is ...