When painting with watercolors, one of the most important things to make sure is that you need the right surface. Watercolor needs a lot of water to make color washes. Water and most forms of paper don’t blend well. High-quality watercolor paper is specifically made for watercolors but can it be used for other materials […]
Working in watercolor is a lot of fun. It creates beautiful paint washes that are enjoyable to brush onto the paper. But watercolor can be a challenging medium to master. Because of its transparency, it is easy for an artist to lose track of it. Overworking is a major problem. Watercolor lightens as it dries, […]
We often use watercolor paper for painting. Sometimes we even use colored pencils on watercolor paper. While doing crafts work, the brain comes up with new experiments all the time. While painting on watercolor paper, a question usually appears. What else can you do with your watercolor paper instead of painting? Can you print on […]
Painting is a passion for many people. Painting is a unique technique and a good painting attracts a big audience towards it as people love to have beautiful paintings as decoration pieces in their homes or workplaces. To make your painting look good and attractive, you have to use the correct techniques and proper tools […]
Colored pencils have been everyone’s favorite art tool since we all were kids. We used to practice coloring simple drawings or sketching with colored pencils. With the passage of time, the sketches and the usage of such pencils became more and more complex and with our constant practices of coloring with such pencils at home […]
If you’re a watercolor painter, I bet you are always looking for new surfaces to paint on. There may be many surfaces available for you to experiment your watercolors on, but there’s a certain attraction towards a regular canvas. There’s one thing you should remember before using a standard canvas, used for oils and acrylics, […]
Most art paint sets rarely contain tan color. This is because this color is often only used for creating a portrait. In most paintings such as abstract, nature, etc., tan color has minimal use and its use can be substituted through other colors. If you are making a human portrait artwork and you come to […]
Frayed paintbrushes are common. Brushes require proper care like any other art material to keep their shape and function. If you do not use your paint brushes with care, they will easily get frayed, lose their shape, and will no longer provide the same painting function as they did when they were soft and new. […]
Painting walls need a large area to cover. This requires large-sized paintbrushes that can hold more paint and cover that big surface area evenly. There are many types of paint brushes according to the surface area you want to paint. It may be a canvas, a floor, a wall, or even glass. In this article, […]
We have already included Nicpro paint brushes in one of our picks for top 5 best watercolor brushes on Amazon, but now that I had a chance to review Nicro paint brushes, I decided to make a specific Nicpro brushes review, so that people may know if these brushes are good and if they should […]
