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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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How to Re-Energize Your Art by Changing Where You Make It
One of the most powerful ways to re-energize your art has nothing to do with technique or practice. It has everything to do with where you’re making it. When you immerse yourself in a new environment, something opens up inside you. You feel alive in a way that routine rarely…
Why Paint Color Recipes Are the Best Thing for Your Art
Creating your own custom paint colors isn’t as complicated as it sounds. In this post, I walk through my behind-the-scenes process for mixing and measuring a large batch of Baja Orange, a dusty, earthy, sun-warmed orange that appears throughout my work. The real lesson here goes beyond one color. It’s…
How to Mix Custom Paint Colors That Feel Alive
The most beautiful, resonant colors you’ll ever mix don’t come from a single tube. They come from layering multiple pigments together, including a complementary color to quiet things down, until something deeper and more alive emerges. In this post, Nicholas walks through his process for creating Baja Orange, a custom…
