Exciting News!
January 11th, 2022 marks Monk Office’s purchase of Island Blue Art & Framing stores in Victoria and Sidney!
SPOTLIGHT ON COLOUR: CERULEAN BLUE
A pure blue pigment, Cerulean Blue is opaque and bright due to its highly refractive particles. It is stable and does not react to light or chemicals, making it a permanent and invaluable part of the artists’ palette.
Becoming Familiar with Color Pouring Medium Matte: It’s More Than Just for Pours!
GOLDEN Color Pouring Medium Matte (CPM Matte) is a very new and exciting product for 2019.
Is Ultramarine a Cool Blue?
Particularly in plein air painting, where carrying a lot of paint tubes around and having a complex palette is often avoided, artists go for a split-primary palette, with a warm and cool for each primary color. So what is your warm blue?
Journalling with Gelli Plates
Hello and welcome to the Gelli Arts® blog!
It’s Birgit here today and I will be sharing with you how I create my art journals with Gelli Arts® prints.
Abstract Painting Using Dorland Cold Wax
A great article by Rebecca Crowell using Dorland's Wax Medium.
Today the most widely known method of wax painting is encaustic, which involves molten wax, and fusing wax and paint layers with a heat source. There is another way to paint with wax that requires no special equipment or set-up, and is far less toxic than encaustic. This is cold wax medium–a room-temperature substance made by suspending tiny beeswax particles in a base of solvent, resin and other additives.
Defining Warm and Cool Colors: It’s All Relative
The concept of warm and cool colors has been written about for hundreds of years. Most theories start with the classic six point color wheel (three primary colors and three secondary colors). A dividing line splits the wheel into warm and cool.
Wonderful World Of Washi
Washi is the Japanese word for the traditional papers made from the long inner fibres of three plants, wa meaning Japanese and shi meaning paper. As Japan rushes with the rest of the world into the 21st Century, and more modern technologies take over, machines produce similar-looking papers which have qualities very different from authentic washi. As of the fall of 2008, there remained fewer than 350 families still engaged in the production of paper by hand.
Printmaking Primer
Aquatint is a special form of etching. It is created by etching sections rather than lines of a plate. First a porous ground of powdered or melted resin or asphalt or a similar ground is dusted onto the plate.
A History of the World's Most Famous Brush
This video gives a brief history of the Winsor & Newton's Series 7 Kolinsky Brush and shows why it is the favourite of many artists.
Behind the Painting
Read on for an in-depth look at Street Scene by British painter LS Lowry, himself an avowed user of Winton Oil colour. Learn about Lowry’s colours of choice, and how his carefully chosen selection allowed him to capture everyday life with stylised realism.
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Making “Skins” with Fluid Acrylics
An acrylic “skin” is a dry acrylic film that can be made of paint, medium or a combination of paint and medium, that is not attached to any substrate.
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