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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

I had a hard time getting the words out of me, but these #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques are crayons and watercolours!! They are smooth like crayons, but add water and 'Voila', one has watercolours. I love the intensity of these NeoColor 2 colours!

There are many drawing media. Pencil crayon, pencil, charcoal, ink and pastel. Today I will show you different types of pastels. In the rec room, I remember my mom doing pastel portraits when I was young. There was a softness, in the portraits, to them that I loved. 

Today's #TuesdayToolsAnd Techniques is about watercolours. in fact it is a form of watercolours that I didn't know of until recently! I love how saturated and bold the colours are. Watercolours aren't noted for their bold colours, but now they can.

There are different types of paints: watercolours, acrylics, gouache, tempera etc. But did you know that there are different types of acrylics? There are full-body, regular, fluid acrylics etc. What I am about to show you today are differences between brand names. The differences are Golden and Liqu...

Warm and cool colours, along with black and white, can create any colour in the world. In this #TuesdayTools AndTechniques , I will show you the differences between warm and cool colours. Warm yellow seems to have more orange to it, while warm blue, seems to have more red to it making it more purple...

I've talked about Gesso before on #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques . Most people know that gesso can be used on canvas. Gesso provides a great base for paints; it is similar to the base coat one puts on their walls before they put the paint on. gesso prepares the surface for paint and provides a great bas...