Teaching Oil Painting in College – Angela Batchelor
Angela Batchelor currently lives in Twin Falls, Idaho with her husband, two sons, dog, and a small flock of chickens. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the College
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Restoring My Ability to Paint – Barb Witlin
Barb Witlin currently has two paintings in the Omnibus 3D virtual gallery in Dresden Germany. She also is featured in the online gallery Ten Moir. Her painting God is in
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Pigments and Binders
On Pigments by Debu Barve — Remember c o l o r s ? This question sounds silly because we really don’t perform any conscious process of recollecting specifics about
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Reimagine – Reinvent
A guest article by Kimberly Brooks. I never buy the Financial Times. But it was pink, it was in the olden days when I was at an airport travelling and
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“A Little Black Book for My Younger Artist Self”
By Kimberly Brooks I remember the first time I ever painted in oil as if it were yesterday. Already an avid sketch artist and having dabbled in acrylics, I was
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Mike Strickland Writes About “Bio-Thinner”
As an artist who is very sensitive to the traditional solvents used in oil painting, I have been searching for an alternative for a number of years. The first replacement
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Green Acrylics?
Acrylic paints often contain small percentages of formaldehyde or ammonia as preservatives. These can cause allergic reactions in some individuals, especially if they are using large amounts of polymer medium
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FIREWORKS IN THE STUDIO – DRY PIGMENTS
Iron oxide is possibly the single most common pigment used in oil and acrylic paints. Powdered aluminum is used in all the silver, gold, and “metallic” colors. While these pigments
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KEEP IT SIMPLE
According to the Chemical Abstract Service, there are now over 50 million chemicals listed in their catalogues. New chemicals are being produced at the rate of 25 per minute. For
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Should the Hazardous Art Materials Law be Repealed?
Recently the Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety (ACTS) people in New York called for the repeal of the labeling of the Hazardous Art Materials Act. This the the law that
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