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Let’s Talk About… Painting Palettes
Finding the right painting palette took me years. Here’s what finally worked for me, why gray paper helps so much, and how design plays a role.
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It Finally Happened: My First Solo Exhibition
My first solo art exhibition opened last week! It felt unreal—but it really happened, and I’m still glowing with joy, pride, and spring-fueled inspiration.
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There is your home, where your dog is
Finishing this painting took over a year. My AuADHD brain pulls me between creation and pause—but eventually, the need to paint and my love for dogs won.
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Time to say goodbye!
After years of experimenting, I've found that every paint brand has its own distinct character—some inspire my art, while others force me to say goodbye.
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Paletteful Packs – January 2023
Contents Daler-Rowney System3 Fluid Acrylic Set Pigment Load and Fluidity. The System3 Fluid Acrylic has a highly intense pigment load which equals high tinting strength. Its fluid consistency allows you to load a brush more evenly, allows more uniform brushstrokes, and assists with long painting strokes without reloading the brush. Highly Versatile Fluid. The System3 Fluid Acrylic support a varied range of applications; poured, puddled, dropped & dragged, used for layering & glazing & mixed with texture paste or other mediums & gels. It can be mixed with textile printing medium, airbrush medium & System3 pouring medium for traditional fluid art techniques. Wide Range of Applications System3 Fluid Acrylic is durable and flexible with excellent adhesion to multiple surfaces including stone, wood, textiles, canvas & paper. There is no need to dilute with water for immediate application. This acrylic offers great coverage making it perfect for murals and other large…
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Paletteful Packs – December 2022
Contents Sennelier Aqua Mini Watercolor Set The roots of Sennelier watercolors are to be found in the Impressionist school. At that time, painters drew their inspiration from nature and set out to reproduce natural light. Watercolor technique offered spontaneity, lightness of touch, fluidity and transparency allowing a quick translation of a particular light, vibration or shape. Paul Cézanne, for instance, produced forty or so watercolors of the Mont Sainte Victoire in Provence. Earlier on in England and on the Normandy coast in France, William Turner had turned painting in watercolors as an art form in its own right and had even managed to produce genuine masterpieces. Since then watercolors have become an established part of the history of painting. Artists love them because of their radiance and their spontaneity. It is such a pleasure when the painter plays with the light of the paper and the brightness of fleeting, intense…
