Tips & techniques
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How to avoid cracking in Designers Gouache painting
The opacity and matt finish of Designers’ Gouache is a result of the high level of pigment used in its formulation and as a result, the proportion...
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Using Gouache versus Acrylic in Water Colour techniques
If you are painting with water colour, we would recommend Designers’ Gouache as the best choice for opaque techniques...
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Tips for using Acrylic mediums
We’ve identified three simple tips which can help you best work with acrylic mediums, enhance your practice and perhaps even the colour performance...
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Using Acrylics as underpainting layers for oil painting
When acrylic colours first became widely available in the 1950’s and 60’s, there was a reluctance to recommend overpainting them with oil colours b...
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Understanding the 3 Oil Painting rules
When using oil paint, a composition is usually built up using different layers of colour. For example, if you are painting a portrait, you may star...
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Tips for using Liquin with Griffin Fast Drying Oil Colour
Liquin will approximately half the drying time of an oil colour, dependant on the proportions added. Therefore depending on the climate, colours us...
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Tips for preventing 'bleeding' of calligraphy inks on paper
Bleeding will not occur on good quality water colour or cartridge paper. If using handmade paper then it is recommended that the paper is sized. It...
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Oiling Out: to brighten dull areas and prevent 'sinking'
If a painting has lost its vitality and become dull, all may not be lost. This usually occurs due to what is known as ‘sinking’: when the top layer...
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