Technique – Page 2 – The Art Treehouse

THROUGH THE ARTIST LOOKING GLASS

Working on a creative project up close, hour after hour, can make it difficult to get a fresh sense of

This idea was sent to us by a painter who solved a problem. The problem is that the caps on

Painting knives are certainly great tools for contemporary artists using impasto techniques. Some form of the painting knife has been

During the 1800s, Plein Air painters were scattered throughout the country, from far west to the North Pole. Landscape painting

Around 1122 A.D., an author known as Theophilus wrote a manuscript called On Divers Arts, where he described the technique

There is an old song from the 1940s titled When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again, sung by Merle

There are accounts of John Singer Sargent being free in his use of turpentine, but there is no way his

It is easy to take for granted the oils we use in painting. Most of us probably assume that linseed,

Wet on Wet, or alla prima (“first attempt”) painting has become increasingly popular, with plein air (“in the open air”)

When Mark was young, he would come home from school to find his mother working on a painting in one