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Acrylics are pigment bound with a polymer medium. It is water-soluble when wet, but water resistant when dry. However, the painting surface must be properly prepared.

All you need to know to start painting with acrylics.

Colour Mixing and application to Paper or Canvas with this tried and true approach to a successful Acrylic Painting.

Would you like to add an unusual element to your acrylic painting without taking away from the subject matter? Explore this twist to assemblage.

Filling your home with creativity is as easy as getting some paint, some frames, some mirrors, and some imagination! Let's get arty!

Fun craft that transforms plain candles into ornate candles.

Fabric painting is a simple way for quilters, sewers, scrapbookers, and other artists to embellish and alter clothing, quilts, home decor, or just about any fabric item.

Do you find yourself easily confused with terms like Latex or Water-Based or Acrylic Latex or Water-Borne? Don't worry, you're not alone.

There are so many different projects mixed media artists can tackle when it comes to altering baskets. Let's take another look at Easter basket alterations.

Mixed media paintings using Christmas cards do not have to follow a Christmas theme. These paintings can hang in your home year-round.

When art students first start painting in oils and acrylics they usually only consider cotton or linen canvas as painting surfaces. However, wood is also an ideal canvas.

Turning one piece of art into another is a creative twist to layering mixed media art techniques. Create something, cut it up, and create something new!

Share favorite holiday cookies with loved ones in decorative, home made gift bags for a green holiday celebration.

This week's altered art project consists of two projects in one: an altered book and a painting.

Just about every bookstore consumers shop and visit have freebie bookmarks next to the cash registers, in displays and added to bags at the time of purchase. Create art!

Bored with the usual wall paint? Try these simple steps in creating stencils to add a touch of whimsy to your home.

Houseplants seem to be that invisible part of homes that are noticeably missing when they're moved. Let's make some art about them!

How people perceive things varies a lot. The focus of this art journal is your perception of one or more things. How do you perceive things?

There seems to be an unwritten rule about the privacy involved with keeping a diary that stems back to early childhood memories. Art journal it up!

Color experiments do not only have to happen when working on a canvas. Experiment in your art journal and then bring it to the canvas.

Spring is in the air! Birds are chirping, flowers are blooming, and trees are budding. Let's bring some of the spring season into our art journal pages.

Often, artists equate art journals with drawing and collage work. Try something different!

Everyone has a wish list, be it on paper or in their mind. Let's explore what these wish lists are through art.

Do you feel you are an understanding person? Do you feel people understand you well or not well enough? Explore these thoughts in your art journal.

It may not happen every year, but it is inevitable for Christmas ornaments and decorations to break from time to time. Turn that trash into treasured art pieces!

Clay pots can be used as gifts or decorations for the home. Kids will have a lot of fun making these easy projects with little supervision.

Recycle used printables and coloring book pages into mixed media art work.

You can easily transform small yogurt cups and smoothie bottles into cute penguins with paint, glue and craft foam. It's an easy and fun green craft project.

How to use a palette knife in your oil or acrylic paintings.

This perfect kids' Christmas craft is fun for kids 6 and over. The end result is adorable; it will be tempting to leave the Nativity Set out all year long.

This kids craft project not only enhances children's love for dressing up, but it also is a great opportunity to provide a lesson in recycling.

Don't throw away your potpourri when it no longer smells good! Don't just add more essential oils! Make some mixed-media art!

Mother Nature paints with a vibrant brush during autumn. Take advantage of this inspiration on your canvases.

Animal painting offers great opportunities for the oil painter to explore oil painting techniques. This painting demonstration uses zebras' stripes as a focal point.

Art therapy is both professional and novice approach to sorting out whatever it is that needs healing. In this sense, a novice approach is used.

Easter egg decorating with paints, stickers, everyday items and natural ingredients.

This demonstration on oil painting a still life with a garden shed with tools compliments a technique known as sgraffito, which involves scoring the paint.

We have all seen those fake spills and probably had them played on us. Many of them are easy to make and can be entertaining to use.

Fall is a time of cooler weather, shorter days, and the smell of freshly fallen leaves. Make some fun Fall crafts with your child to celebrate the season.

A scene portraying a sunlit avenue snaking its way through a forest is almost mesmerising for its abstract quality of light and shade.

Lightning is more than just a white zigzag across the sky. When painted with sensitive observation, it can add real drama to a painting.

Using oil paints like watercolours is the ideal method for capturing vaporous weather such as mists and reflections, as this demonstration shows.

Painting flowerpots is the perfect activity for a language arts unit involving Gnomes.

How many times have you been to the flea market or to a yard sale and found an old beat up serving tray that really wasn't worthy for anything more than the garbage?

What's the difference between latex and oil paint? What are acrylic and enamel paints? What are "edging," "curing," and "VOCs?" Increase your paint vocabulary today!

How many times have you gone to a discount store and saw those cardboard pictures in plastic picture frames? They are are a great mixed-media art opportunities!

Spring fever is here and with that comes gardening! Mixed media artists bring in the season by marrying gardening an art through alteration projects!

No one is comfortable with change, no matter how used to it they appear and how often it happens in their life. Deal with change using your art journal.

Rather than letting medical issues cause artists block, break free using the medical issue as the theme of your art projects. That is the focus of this art journal promp

There is love in everyone's life, in one way or another. The focus of this art journal prompt is on some dedications to what we love the most.