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Gouache
Gouache
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...
Painting Mediums
Painting Mediums
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...
Using Oil Paint
Using Oil Paint
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...
Water Colour
Water Colour
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...
Working With Acrylic Paint
Working With Acrylic Paint
Acrylic paint is the newest of the widely used artistic mediums, having been developed for commercial use as recently as the 1950s. It quickly became popular with...
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