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The upcoming course, ‘My World Rocks!,’ is using rocks, gold leaf and acrylic paints. Now you know what rocks and acrylic paints are, but what is gold leaf? First of all, the gold leaf can be real gold or it can be imitation gold to keep the costs down! (Extra note: the leaf can come in silver...

Did you know that there is information about your paint on the backside of your paint (student and professional, not craft paint)? The information is if it is opaque, semi-opaque or transparent and its lightfastness. Opaque means you cannot see through. And lightfastness means how resistant it is to...

I love to journal. For me journalling is part writing, painting, drawing and/or collaging. Having the right paper is so necessary, as too thin of paper will buckle and wave. So, what is the right paper? I have paper 90 pound, 98, 114 and higher. You don't want anything below 90 pounds.

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Here we are to the last Principle of Design; it is Pattern /Repetition. A pattern is when you have a specific order that repeats itself. The object that repeats itself could be line, shape, colours, textures (any of the Elements of Design).

Patterns can be simple; as in the example with only ...

Ah, pencils. In life, most people only use a 2B or an HB pencil. But there are more! Pencils come in a variety of 'blackness' (carbon) or firmness. To show this difference,  numbers and the letter 'B' show how dark the pencil is. The letters range from (1)B to 8B, with 8B being the blackest and soft...

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The beginning of this month I introduced to you Rhythm. Now, I’ll present you to the Principle of White Space. White Space is the area between elements in your image. Despite it being called White Space, it does not need to be white. It can be any colour, pattern or texture. 

White Space can b...

Collage. Collage is a technique where you glue something on to the main object. In the example in the video, I glued handmade paper onto a cardboard container I made. in the four adherents that I showed, the last two are professional grade, while the first two were for anyone to use. Collage is a fu...

Last #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques, I shared about burnishing with a white pencil. Today I will be burnishing again, but not with a white pencil crayon, You can burnish by taking a colour that is lighter than the pencil crayon you will be burnishing. Yellow is the lightest colour in the colour wheel. T...

Today's pencil crayon technique is one that I love. It is called burnishing. Burnishing is applying hard pressed white on top of another colour ( I chose purple in the video). It changes the colour and the texture of the pencil crayon.

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This Art & Soul Insider, we will look at the Principle of Design of Rhythm. Rhythm suggests movement or action. You can get rhythm by the repetition of the Elements of Design (line, shapes, colours etc.) in a picture.

Here is rhythm in lines. Notice the sense of movement.

And here is rhythm...

Today's #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques is about how to blend similar coloured pencil crayons. This simple technique makes blending so much easier and more effective. Today I chose two colours on the same side of the colour wheel: red and orange. Always remember to colour the lightest colour on top, as t...

Colour! We all love colour! There are tools that help us in the mixing of the colours. Not the actual mixing, but what one colour mixed with another colour makes. This is called a Colour Mixing chart. Most artists make their own, but this ready made chart is nice to have with the basic colours.