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Painting & Mixed Media
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How Much Paint Do I need?
Tips for Acrylic Painters and Mural Artists for Estimating Paint Coverage. As an artist, you know that calculating how much paint you need for a project is crucial for budgeting and achieving the desired results. Painting large canvases or murals requires a lot of colour, time, and effort, so you don’t want to run out […]
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Stencils – 50 Ways to Use Them
Jaime Echt from The Crafter’s Workshop shares a demonstration today on how to use one stencil in three different ways. Start with one great stencil, add sprays, molding paste, and watercolor paper and you’ll have three beautiful creations! We want to thank Jaime for her excellent demo on stencils. The Paint Spot team went wild […]
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Marabu Colour for Mixed Media
Marabu art crayons Are you looking for innovative tools for drawing and painting mixed media? Check our Art Crayons and Art Sprays videos and project ideas. Number of Colors Available 25 + Blender Most permanent workable surfaces paper, gesso, wood, dry acrylic mediums and grounds, plaster, bisque-fired clay, and most absorbent or semi-absorbent surfaces Least […]
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Gilding with Gold Leaf – Tips
Here is a video showing bad and good techniques for gilding with silver leaf. Gilding supplies Gesso Acrylic paint Gold leaf size (oil-based or water-based adhesive) Imitation leaf (booklet is 25 sheets of 5”x5”) Soft hair brush for applying gesso and size Squirrel hair brush for burnishing gold leaf Scissors Tips for gilding – Method […]
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Encaustic Painting: Getting Started
Encaustic painting material is composed of natural beeswax and pigment; damar resin is most often added, sometimes other waxes or oil paint, too. Molten encaustic, applied to a surface, is fused by applying even heat to create a lustrous, enamel effect. The waxy, semi-translucent natural colour of beeswax imparts an exquisite visual property. Encaustic can […]
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Egg Decorating: The Art of Pysanky
Layers of beeswax and dye are used to create beautiful designs on Ukrainian Easter Eggs. Generations of Ukrainians handed down the tradition of Easter egg decorating. They are famous the world over for their colorful Easter Eggs (Pysanky). More than 2000 years ago, before the time of Christ, people decorated eggs believing that great powers […]
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Even More Mixed-Media with Marabu
Do you want to add a bit of colour quickly to keep up with your mixed-media creative flow? Check out these two videos featuring new products from Marabu products. Yes, we stock these products! Just click on the order buttons to see the colour range and sale price. Art crayon and mixed-media: Highly pigmented and water […]
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Handmade Costumes Are The Best
Ruby Red face & body paint
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54 Things You Can Make with Handmade Papers
The Paint Spot carries many handmade papers. Japanese Paper Place and St Armand are our favourites. Paper Mulberry (Saa) Modern artists, craftspeople, and hobbyists have vastly expanded the range of applications for mulberry paper, called Saa in Thailand and chiyogami in Japan. The most common uses are probably as cover papers for bookbinders, and as […]
