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Today is Pi Day! Not the eating kind but the math one...today's date is 3.14 !! When I was teaching in the public school system, a math teacher organized a way for all the teachers to buy a t-shirt with the symbol on it. And every year, on March 14th, we wore our shirts!

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Today's #TuesdayToolsAnd Techniques is all about metallic watercolours. These Arteza watercolours are so beautiful. They look lovely on white watercolour paper but they can also be painted on black paper; these paints look amazing on the black paper! If you are looking for something unique to paint ...

"Tis the season of bright lights and colours. This #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques is perfect with its glorious colours. The Arteza 24 pan of metallic watercolours is just so beautiful. It has the regular metallics such as Gold, Copper, Bronze and Silver. But then it has made up metals of Watermelon Pink...

Painting with acrylics you have a variety of media that you can add to it to change the look and feel of the paint. Today I will share with you matte medium. Matte medium can be added to the acrylic paints and its effect is translucency; it can have the look of watercolors. Watercoclor isn't meant t...

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!

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.

Last week I shared with you some irridescent colours, that were watercolours, that can be painted on black. This week I am showing you other types of watercolours that are fun and creative. Watercolours aren't just plain 'colours,' but can be visually different for our eyes. Have a look at the video...

For today's #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques we are looking at some watercolour paints. These colours are glorious and full of light. It is a 24 watercolour half-pan set. What is beautiful about this set is that they can also be painted on black paper; they show up amazingly. You should give them a try. I...

The last few Tuesday's I shared about hard and rough textures in watercolours. This #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques is all about creating soft texture with watercolours. You would use this technique in creating fluffy, soft clouds that hang in our skies.

Today's #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques , is about texture, rough texture. This it the type of texture that is on the side of a old wooden barn door or siding. It isn't a smooth hard texture or a soft texture, it is bumpy, sharp, rough texture. You know the kind. The key is to dry your brush off, but it'...

Today's #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques is all about hand made watercolour pans. Artists, not that long ago, made their paints, now it is a rarity and a treasure. I found out about Wildthorne ( @wildthorne ) from an Instagram fellow artist, Andrea Garvey ( @andreagarveyart ). Andrea had received a Wildth...

Welcome to #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques ! Today is all about another watercolour technique. It is one of the easiest techniques to do: the hard edge. "The hard edge" is for painting objects that have a crisp straight line/edge. Think of the side of the house, a door, a picture frame, a table, a comput...