


Tips For Priming A Canvas
Learning the correct way to prime your canvas is a simple but crucial skill for artists working with oil or acrylic paints. Priming seals and protects the support, makes the canvas less absorbent, helps the colours stand out and can provide a smoother surface with...
Featured Artist: Maddie Agnew
This week’s Featured Artist is Maddie Agnew, 45, from Holmfirth in Huddersfield. Maddie creates beautiful portraits of people and animals in oils and watercolour… How did you get started as an artist? I have immersed myself in everything art, since I was a...
Paint Like A Professional With Oil Mediums
Oil paints have been most artists’ first choice for hundreds of years, with good reason. The colours are gorgeous, you can do anything with them and they last forever. Newcomers to this medium tend to have questions about the drying time of oils, and often ask...