A dipper is merely a container to attach to your palette to hold turps or oil or drier to add to your paint. If you find them impractical to use, I suggest you keep your dilutants in jars or pots. This is more practical by far than keeping them in di...
Canvases are usually flax or cotton/flax yarns, stretched over a wooden stretcher and kept taut by knocking small triangular pegs at the back into the corners where there is room made for them. They are best bought, as preparing and stretch...
A dilutant is a liquid which will thin down your paint so
as to make it easier to handle. Most common is turpentine, but gasoline, so long as it is purified, can be used.
You can dilute your color with oil, but this not only tends to make the paint g...
Many people think of the pencil as the one and only drawing tool. The poor eraser gets pushed aside as something that only gets used after you've made a mistake. But that's a wrong approach to take - your eraser can do a lot more than just cover up...
Are you the sort of person who feels like you need to go get something - buy something - before you can begin a new undertaking? For instance, do you feel a strong need to go buy a sketchbook before you can start drawing?
Me too.
And I did buy a new sk...
