Browsing: Materials

How material diversity grew from the movement of pigments and the cultures of art they influenced. Color, in its earliest…

During our late November Artist Roundtable, we discussed a comment an artist had made on social media, stating that, in…

As we close out the year and look toward the work ahead, I wanted to offer something useful for anyone…

Dust seems like a minor annoyance until you see it wreck a dark glaze or throw sparkles into a perfect…

For as long as artists have worked with brushes, pigments, and varnish, they have also experimented with ways to correct,…

In recent weeks, I’ve seen a surge of ads for a product called the Everpen, accompanied by some bold claims: an unbreakable,…

A brush’s quality isn’t proven by the first stroke—it’s revealed by the thousandth. Painters talk about brushes all the time—usually…

The preparation of a painting surface has always been one of the most critical steps in creating durable and responsive…

Many of us have read about the potential changes we might observe when oil paint dries. Dry oil paints can…

Trying to figure out where a gradation might “go astray” can be a real challenge for artists in an observational,…