What is it?
Happy Tuesday! This week we are talking about a type of paint that doesn't often get a lot of attention-- gouache! Pronounced "gwosh," this type of paint is an opaque, water-soluble medium that has some of the qualities of both watercolor ...
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What is it?
Painting in miniature is more than just painting a small work. The word "miniature" originally came from a Latin term for the red pigment that was used in the creation of illuminated manuscripts. Because the decoration and illustration in ...
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What is it?
The topic of today's post is a medium that many folks (and certainly anyone who had a childhood art class!) are familiar with: watercolor. One of the very oldest types of paint, watercolor consists of pigments suspended in a water-soluble ...
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What is it?
Today's featured technique is the dry brush technique. Like last week's technique, the multi-loaded brush, this technique deals with the way that the artist loads their brush before applying it to the canvas. With the dry brush technique, ...
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