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Painting Sequence Tomatoes with Daffs

Sequence of photos and video describes the inspiration and stages with text and photos when painting a composition of a kitchen bowl of fruit and flowers.

Make Prints Using Your Body?

Should you Paint your Body with Acrylics? Using your Body to make Foot and Arm Prints. I had a query recently from an artist who wanted to print with her body,

You have Severe Allergies?

Do You Suffer from Severe Allergies? I have had several queries from people with severe allergies who want to know whether our acrylic paints will work for them.

Painted Toy Makers 2021

Toy Makers and why they Paint. Our customers and readers tell us how and why they came to make toys and we are pleased to feature some of their stories.

Discounts for Multiple Tubes

The best value paints in our shop is a full set of colours but when you have been painting for a while, you might want more of certain colours. Read about our discounts for multiple tubes of individual colours.

Colour and Signs of Spring

The rapidly changing countryside has set me thinking about green colours and how to use them in paintings. The fields nearby are always a patchwork of colours

How to Steady Your Painting Hand

Keep your hand Steady while painting Do you worry about wobbly edges and lines when you are painting or are forever trying to avoid touching wet paint? Actually there are ways of solving this. There’s a tool for steadying! When you are painting fine details it’s hard to be exact if your hand is waving […]

Why Browns are Useful for Colour Mixing

Add Browns to your list of Basic colours While a pallette of six pure colours is sufficient to mix all the colours you need, earthy browns speed up mixing subtle shades. Pure vibrant colours are thrilling but sometimes you need to tone it down to make the colour less arresting, perhaps to make shadows and […]

Keeping Mixed Paints For Later

Keeping Mixed Paints for Later If I mix a big batch of a colour will it last a while in an air tight container? And is there a type of container that works best?  Short questions almost always need long replies because the answer is nearly Always ‘It Depends‘! Mixing Batches of colour to keep […]

Vegetarian and Vegan Artists

Paints for Vegetarian and Vegan Artists We understand that many people are concerned about animal ingredients and animal testing, not only vegetarians and Vegans, and want to ensure that the materials they use are animal friendly,