Those who create art, even as beginners: you are artists. By virtue of the simple fact that you have pursued your interest far enough to join an art course, you’ve purchased art materials, and you have begun creating. You – are an artist – for you are creating art. This is […]
Acrylics with impasto and gel mediums create superb contrasts of rough and smooth, peaks and valleys that I find quite beautiful and useful in many landscape and abstract paintings. This type of texture works great for tree bark, building walls, hills, ocean waves, even certain flowers lend well to this approach. I mixed the acrylics […]
Watercolour Beginners if you start off with 3 tubes of paints you can create all these and more colour mixes. BEGINNERS’ 3 TUBES: Cobalt Blue pb28 Permanent Rose pv19 Winsor Lemon py175 (Transparent Paint category) For new beginners, when just starting out, limiting […]
Viridian, Ultramarine, Permanent Rose and Indian Yellow watercolours and acrylic paints. Viridian and Permanent Rose are complements; Ultramarine blue and Indian yellow are near complements and they pair up harmoniously, whether in watercolours, acrylics or oils and are in my palette for both of the paintings shown. First painting “Bird of Paradise” is a representational […]
Bold cobalt and turquoise paired with rich orange & scarlets make a stunning pairing! I haven’t sold this one as of yet; I’d been “enjoying its company” for a while. It has a lovely fresh impressionistic feeling, very light and colourful. The process involved a loose drawing on sketch paper, then taping plastic […]