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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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The Secret Trick to Matching and Mixing Colors
Color matching is one of the most frustrating parts of painting. You see the color you want, you try to mix it, and somehow you end up further away than when you started. In this post I share the VHS method, a three-step approach to matching any color faster and…
How to Store Paintbrushes So You Can Always Find What You Need
I’ve been making art for a long time. And I only just figured out how to store my paintbrushes properly. In this post I walk through the exact container sizes that work for every brush length, the DIY solution hiding in plain sight in most studios, and a free PDF…
7 Reasons Why Your Art Practice Was Never Meant to Be Built Alone
We were taught that an art practice is something you build alone. Just you, your brushes, and the work. But after years of watching artists struggle in isolation and then transform inside a community, I no longer believe that’s true. In this post, I share the seven reasons why making…
