The range of brushes available to artists is enormous, and choosing the right brush can sometimes be difficult. Do you sometimes find yourself at a loss, not knowing which brush to buy? Or do you tear your hair out when you realise you’ve...

Vincent de Boer (1988) is a well-known Dutch artist, living and working in Utrecht. He graduated from the HKU in 2010 with a BA in Graphic Design. Driven by a fascination with the traces left behind after making calligraphic movements and making...

If you want to work with acrylic paint as an artist, the choice of brands and types of acrylic paint is enormous. So big that it is sometimes difficult to know what the differences are and also it can be difficult make a choice. The viscosity — how...

Introduction; When you first start thinking about making artwork for a blog and especially if you haven’t used the materials before, it can be quite a minefield. My mind started racing with all of the possibilities of what can be produced with Gelli...

Lux Buurman is a painter with a great love for materials and their incorporation into classical painting techniques. For her hands-on REVIEW of MAIMERI’s oil paint, she takes the structure of work from the Flemish Primitives to the...

As an avid and professional painter, I have experience painting on many different surfaces. When Gerstaecker asked me to try out their PET RECYCLED canvas, my interest was immediately aroused – I had never worked on it before! I used Old...