Learn how to use painting and palette knives with acrylics. Techniques, tips, and the best types of knives for various acrylic painting styles.rn
Makeover furniture or cabinets with a faux Pottery Barn Seadrift finish. Step by step guide on how to create a painted driftwood seadrift faux finish.
Paint is a simple and cost-effective way to dramatically change the look and feel of a room. Aside from changing the color of the walls and ceiling, the painting techniques you use can give the illusion that you’ve changed the size of the room. Whether you’d like your room to feel cozier, bigger, or even like the ceiling is taller, several room-painting tricks can completely transform your space. Color choice is also a phenomenal tool that can have a significant psychological effect on the ways we perceive the space we're in. The human eye is naturally drawn to light; painting
Students began this lesson with a week of watercolor painting. We learned four painting techniques and each student created an assortment of painted papers in each style using warm, cool and “free”…
Get better at painting with watercolors by learning beginner watercolor painting techniques that can be used by anyone. Useful tips for watercolor painting.
How to Layer Paint Colors on Furniture – Four Techniques for a Distressed Finish By: Stacy Verdick Case On: January 23, 2021 3…
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Ya know that neat paint finish with the cracks and breaks in it? You can achieve the crackle paint finish with just white school glue and paint!
Today, I thought I would share one of the biggest resources that has ever been created for you. This post contains enough arts and crafts ideas to get you through the summer, fall, winter, spring... and many more rounds after that! I decided to have this resource include both art ideas AND craft ideas. The
Easily create beautiful watercolor designs with this simple and fast sugar water technique. My kids absolutely loved painting with this sugar water technique. They each raved about how beautiful their creations were and couldn’t wait to try it again. This is a great rainy day activity for kids and adults of any age. Watch as […]
What are all the techniques you can try with acrylic pouring? There are so many different ways to approach any art form, but it helps to have some guidance, especially for beginners. We've created this step-by-step guide to help you with the most common techniques in paint pouring. So go through them all, or find
Teach children the basics to paint like Pollock in just 40 minutes. Great for grades K-2, kids learn new techniques with paint, yarn and becoming fearless
Acrylic pour painting techniques tutorial. I especially like the details on how to make this amazing art project work with a bunch of kids!
Discover 55+ inspiring wall painting ideas and the tools you need for success. Unleash your creativity and elevate your home decor!
Add richness, depth, and dimension to a room with this lime wash wall paint technique.
16 fantastic and easy ways how to distress wood for an awesome aged and weathered look. Step by step guide to making your upcycling projects even more interesting.
Ya know that neat paint finish with the cracks and breaks in it? You can achieve the crackle paint finish with just white school glue and paint!
Learn how to use watercolor pencils. These easy techniques are perfect for beginners who are new to using watercolor pencils.
Do you love the vintage/rustic look of layered chippy paint, but don't want to pay for the sometimes pricey originals ? Well now you can do it yourself!
In this tutorial video, I teach you my FAVORITE technique in watercolor—the wet-on-wet technique. It's great for loose-style painting.
Chalk paint® tips for beginners. Do you have a piece of furniture to paint that you don't want to sand? Try out these techniques for DIY success.
A blog about how a failed painting made me rethink the theories of composition in my painting of Donegal, Ireland.
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Print this FREE 10-page Summer Q Tip Painting set to enjoy this summer with the kids! This set includes a variety of summer sheets to paint.
Easy shark art project for kids, with printable shark silhouettes! Create an ocean background with the scrape painting technique and add sharks!
Learn all about acrylic pour techniques with this comprehensive guide, which includes videos and written descriptions for each technique!
Learn about common mistakes beginner oil painters make, to help you save materials and improve more quickly.
These easy watercolor techniques for kids are perfect for all ages and offer endless possibilities for creativity and fun.
Drinking straws at the ready, let’s try bubble painting! Bubble painting This really is an art activity where the process of creating the art is at least as much fun as the finished result. Every child I’ve done this with has loved blowing bubbles. Blow, don’t stuck! It is important that all the artists understand […]
Today, I'm excited to show you step-by-step how I achieved a faux wood grain look on a pair of old-fashioned nightstands, just by painting.
This tutorial shows how you can make paint crackle with glue. It's an easy cost effective way that gives amazing results for a rustic finish everytime.
If you're new to watercolor, you may find it helpful to follow these step-by-step easy watercolor tutorials for beginners.
Here are the best of the Artful Parent's watercolor projects. These ideas are fun and easy and include salty watercolors, watercolor resist methods, and printing. Watercolor Paints for Kids As for the watercolor paints themselves, we primarily use liquid watercolors (which we love, love, love) and watercolor paint palettes. But we also use a few other versions of watercolors including homemade! Liquid watercolor paints Paints palettes of dried watercolor paint Watercolor crayons Watercolor pencils DIY Paint-with-Water Pages Homemade watercolor paint Watercolor paints are one of our family’s favorite art materials. We’ve used them for everything from straight painting, to printing,
8 best acrylic painting tips that will help you to get started if you are a beginner and improve your painting in no time!
What a fun experiment to see if the painting fabric on this chair would turn out crunchy. It didn't make sense, but this technique worked!
I have been fascinated by the caves at Lascaux, France, since I learned about them in one of my very first college art history classes. I wanted to see if my sons would find them equally fascinating. They did. Before we made our own "cave paintings," we read a great book that familiarized my sons with the discovery of the caves. The story is so appealing to kids because it was, in fact, some young boys that stumbled on these historic caves and discovered their paintings and engravings, which were made by some of the earliest humans. Art has a long rich history. Cave paintings show us its very origin. Our Artist Recreation Of course, we don't have a cave wall to use as our medium, so I grabbed a roll of brown packaging paper (like what you'd wrap a package in to mail) that was collecting dust in our basement. I cut a large piece. I crinkled it to give it more of a stone effect and swiped on a few areas of brown and white acrylic paint in an attempt to replicate the look of cave walls. Then my sons used taupe, brown, black, and white oil pastels and some stencils I'd made. To make your own stencils, print my free template onto office paper, overlay sheets of transparency paper (think thick clear report covers), and using an exacto craft knife, carefully cut away the animals shapes. The boys were able to position the stencils anywhere they chose and even flip them to make the mirror image for variety. Holding the stencil steady (and tightly), they ran the oil pastel along the inner edge of the stencil to make an outline of a bull, deer and her fawn, bird, and human hunter (complete with bow and arrow). This required patience and determination for our 5-year-old, but since the real paintings didn't have crisp lines, even his wavering hand seemed to add to the authenticity. When we were done, he told me all about what our "cave painting" was illustrating! More Books In the evening, the boys read two other great books to extend the learning even further. My husband read The First Drawing to our 5-year-old. It is a wildly imaginative tale of a child who invented art by drawing in caves. It starts "Imagine ... you were born before the invention of drawing, more than thirty thousand years ago." This makes the cave painters very relatable to kids! My 9-year-old read Discovery in the Cave on his own. While the reading level was much lower than he's used to, he was fascinated by the small maps that detailed all of the different areas in the caves of Lascaux. It contained enough unique information from the book we read before our art activity to keep him interested.
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