by Lachri | Jul 26, 2016 | Art product review, Art tips, Oil Painting
This month’s smart art box had very unexpected results for me! The type of oil paint used was one I don’t like…at all. It is a fairly inexpensive “starter” type oil paint that simply does not work for the techniques I generally use...
by Lachri | Jul 5, 2016 | Art product review, Art tips, Vlogs
One of my favorite ways of keeping my acrylic paintings clean from line drawings as I work is to use tracing and transfer paper. You can choose to freehand or trace your subject onto the tracing paper, that part is up to you. With acrylic paintings, because that paint...
by Lachri | Jun 21, 2016 | Art product review
This was one of the most fun smart art boxes yet!! This month we were experimenting with Indian Block Painting. If you are unfamiliar with the Smart Art Box, it is a monthly subscription box where you get a new box sent to you each month full of full sized...
by Lachri | Jun 14, 2016 | Art product review, Art tips, Oil Painting
I’ve not always varnished my work. Back when people regularly smoked inside their homes this was a must. The purpose of the varnish is to protect the work and for it to be removable when it starts to yellow from smoke and other environmental contaminates,...
by Lachri | Jun 14, 2016 | Art product review, Art tips, Colored Pencil, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials
I’ve used these pencils before in combination with other colored pencils but never by themselves. There was a lot I loved about them and a lot that I… didn’t. These come in sets of 72. Their lightfast ratings are quite good and can be found on the...
by Lachri | Mar 21, 2016 | Art product review, Art tips, Graphite
Normally when I review a product I either love it or hate it. That wasn’t the case with these graphite pencils from Caran d’Ache. There were some things I did love, and some things that I just felt “meh” about. The Good (or amazing in this...
