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The Magic Ingredient I Add to My Acrylic Paint

As a former oil painter, acrylic paint has two frustrating qualities to me, it’s thin and it’s slippery, making it hard to build texture or draw into. A simple studio…

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Creating depth in your art…

I’m here in beautiful Mexico, teaching another Art2Life destination workshop! A topic came up that I want to share with you. I think it could be helpful in your art. It’s about depth — creating an impression of things in the distance versus things up close. Take a look at…

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My latest sketchbook discovery…

Welcome back to my Sunday Art Vlog. I’m in Mexico right now, teaching an Art2Life destination Workshop. During these workshops, when I’m not teaching, I love to work in my sketchbook. As I was looking back on some pages today I noticed that all the pages I liked the most…

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Finding new ways to work with acrylic paint…

Happy Sunday! Since working with acrylics on large paintings is new to me, I’ve had to figure out ways to slow the drying time like oils have. I came up with a super simple solution that I’m excited about and I have to share it with you! Check it out……

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