I didn’t know what the art world was until I was a teenager. At that point, I just wanted to be an illustrator which is what I did in college and at university. In my second year, I got really outside ...

Oil and acrylic paintings these days are most often created on canvas. Canvas replaced wood panels for painting during the Renaissance because stretching canvas across wooden bars allowed for larger ...

In this third and last article in our series about the Fome Etching Press, we demonstrate how to adapt this popular intaglio printing press so it can be used for relief printing and how to get the ...

Sometimes art terms can be confusing. Some words mean more than one thing or one product can be called two or three different names. A case in point is the words, Size, Primer, Gesso, and Ground.

Jackson’s introduced Yupo Paper a couple of months ago to our range of papers for watercolour and mixed media. After reading the description of the paper, that it is non-porous, waterproof and ...

A while ago I wrote a piece for this blog about my favourite Pfeil gouges. In that I said, ‘Most important of all, your tools must be sharp and kept sharp. A quality gouge will not only take a good ...

A Posca Pen allows you to control the application of rich, opaque water-based paint, in fine or broad lines, making it perfect for painting and drawing! The markers contain real paint that dries ...

There are a few reasons that you might want to start your painting on a dark ground. Some pigments are naturally transparent and some are opaque. Oil and acrylic paints will indicate the opacity on ...

Traditional gouache is often divided into two categories- Artist and Designer gouache. But what do these mean in practice and what do they mean for painters? The simple answer seems to be that one ...

Whilst we understand that Carbon offsetting is not as ideal as avoiding fossil fuel use in the first place, we do believe that it is a step in the right direction. As a result, we have decided to ...

Acrylic paint as we know it today has only been around for about 60 years. Unlike oil paint which has been used by artists since about 1400, acrylic paint is a more recent invention. At the beginning ...

Benjamin Phillips is an artist, illustrator, and author based in Hastings, and this months Inside the Sketchbook featured artist. Here, Benjamin talks about his diary-like sketchbook practice, the ...