What you’ll need Your brush washing container (the one with artist quality odorless mineral spirits and a screen) You can make one by...

Making Wall Touch-Up Markers out of Leftover Paint Good for latex paint. Make markers by freezing some leftover paint in an ice cube tray...

An abstract painting catches your eye and you like it but you think ”I could do that” and back way. Don’t. Enjoy it. It appealed to you...

Value is the support of a painting and guides a viewer. Artists use a painting value scale that runs between a darkest dark, black, and...

This little tip has saved me invaluable time with clean up. Tools needed: Two sheets of newspaper Masking tape Keeping the chalk dust...

Well this has been an interesting experiment. I plopped the Gellies on to a piece of printer paper so that I could use the edges of the...

When I got up this morning I could hardly wait to check how my Gelli making has turned out. They seemed to be set last night but I...

A fellow artist talked excitedly about trying monoprinting using Gelli plates. Being the consummate explorer and “art supply junkie” I...

Problems with chiaroscuro? And don’t we all. However I recognize that it is that dark to light range that makes for strength in a...