Monthly Archives: "October 2013"

I love teaching my art classes in Wateringbury and Kings Hill in Kent.  We have been experimenting with acrylics and following on from creating a textured background, I have painted flowers and foliage loosely using a hog hair paintbrush. I have used crimson, lemon yellow, cobalt blue and white acrylic to create this palette of

Method This week in our Kent art classes we started the Paint gesso onto board method using a wide brush (decorating brush); using the gesso fairly thickly, paint with broken brush strokes. Once it is dry, wash over it with watered down acrylic colour. If the colour is too strong allow to dry and wash