Tips & techniques
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Five Water Colour Mediums that Will Transform Your Art in 2015
Whether you are blending, adding texture or layering and juxtaposing washes within your water colour practice, our phenomenal range of mediums will...
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Intermixability of Drawing Inks
All colours in the range of Drawing Inks are intermixable, however Gold and Silver should be added to other inks in small quantities to avoid thick...
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Drawing Inks and water resistance
Winsor & Newton Drawing Inks are all water resistant apart from Liquid Indian Ink, Gold and Silver. However, all the coloured inks are made from dy...
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Protecting a Gouache painting
Varnishing a gouache painting should be avoided because the varnish drastically affects the depth, darkness and finish of the work. Should anyone w...
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What does acrylic 'colour shift' mean?
Acrylic paints usually darken in tone as they dry, making colour matching difficult, so artists have to remember to allow for this when mixing wet...
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Why Flake White is not sold in tubes
Flake white and other lead products are affected by EU legislation. Understanding the implications regarding artists' materials is complicated and...
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When to use the colourless Oilbar
Colourless Oilbar is the equivalent of linseed oil in traditional oil colour, and is used for blending and glazing colours directly on the canvas....
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What is the definition of Hue in a colour name?
"Hue" literally means colour and when it is used in a colour name, it indicates that a modern pigment has been used instead of the traditional one....
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Using Oilbar with other Winsor & Newton oil colour ranges
Oilbar can be used with Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour, Winton Oil Colour and Griffin Alkyd Fast Drying Oil Colour. Due to the wax content, th...
