Here’s a tip I remembered from a Brian Atyeo workshop: use transparent acrylic paints as your undercoat on black Gesso. Then, when you continue to paint with both transparent and opaque colours, they can been seen. Otherwise, the colour just seems to be...
Early gift from Jim. A handsome collection of palette knives from Lee Valley. Quite a contrast to my rusty, crusty ones. Just like a piece of pure white watercolour paper, they are intimidating. But just like white paper or canvas, the only thing to do is open a...
Something I try when I feel my painting is going nowhere – randomly stick white tissue paper on it as I have done here. But, I also tear pieces from magazines or use some of my imprinted Japanese papers.
