How to paint portraits – Free Tips and Tricks for How to paint
Learning to paint portraits is awesome! There are many different ways to paint portraits and no wrong way. It’s art
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HOW TO PAINT
Tips on How to Straighten Hairs on an Art Paint Brush
By Marion Boddy-Evans If a brush seems totally ruined and the hairs out of shape, wash the brush again, then dip
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Start with Mid-Tones Not Highlights
By Marion Boddy-Evans Proportional wheels are used for calculating copy reductions and enlargements. 1. You set the longest dimension of the
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Making Tubes for Leftover Paint
By Marion Boddy-Evans When I mix a special color and want to save it to use tomorrow or on another painting,
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Organizing Your Brushes While Painting
By Marion Boddy-Evans I have a small utility cart on wheels with three shelves (measuring 15×9″). I have tightly fitted the
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Painting Tips: Painting Wet-on-Wet
By Marion Boddy-Evans When working wet-on-wet pull the brush along its length with the handle close to the surface. You get two strokes
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Brushes for Painting Grass or Trees
By Marion Boddy-Evans For painting grass, I have five different sizes/hair variations of fan brush. I add just a bit of paint
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Tips: Ways to Approach Painting Abstracts
Abstract Painting Tip 1: I like to use the world around me to compose good abstracts. It is often hard for
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Advantage of Brown Wooden Palette
The ‘brown’ of the wooden palette and the ‘brown’ of the imprimatura [brown underpainting] go hand in hand in oil
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Painting a Sunset Sky with Yellow on the Horizon
From Susan Tschantz To paint a yellowish sky at the horizon with a bluer sky above without getting a green color
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