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Sealing & Varnishing

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Sealing & Varnishing

Follow my process as I demonstrate sealing and varnishing an acrylic mixedmedia painting to get a lovely soft satin finish.

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Tips to Title Your Painting

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Tips to Title Your Painting

Now it’s time to carefully sign my name in the bottom right corner, lay down an isolation coat, a couple of coats of varnish and ….. drumroll please, GIVE IT A TITLE. The signing and finishing coats are simple, consider them done! But the title – ugh. My brain slumps in my head, solitary dying sparks fizzle – I’ve got nothing. Not a clue or even a microscopic gem of an idea. NOTHING!!

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Gels & Mediums - What I Use

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Gels & Mediums - What I Use

In between then and 2017 when I started painting again some bright spark came up with the idea of adding thick clear acrylic ie. colourless paint to Acrylic paint so that it would behave a little more like oil paint. And so, Gels and Mediums were born.

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Substrates.... & Finishing

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Substrates.... & Finishing

I love the idea of us all facing the same decisions as we inch our work closer to its’ completion. We start, we push paint around and we finish. The beginning and end of that process is what I will deal with here.