Essential to any oil or acrylic painter's practice is a great palette knife, or spatula. Artists employ them to combine colors, pastes, and other materials, and they can also be used to apply paint to ...

Art insights explore creativity color theory and the mindset behind painting. From starting messy with a palette knife to ...

Diane Simmons has spent 30 years teaching art privately. Ten of those years in this area, with seven at A.C. Moore in Frederick, where a loyal group shows up each Friday afternoon, ready to paint with ...

If you ask Shirley Wallace, 79, when she started painting, she’ll tell you she was 5. While most children outgrow playing with paints, Wallace merely traded her childhood watercolors for oils and ...

I used to spend half my painting time just trying to get my paints workable. Dried palette. Flaky paint. Pure frustration.