I was trying to come up with a really easy artist trading card tutorial for the next swap and I know I wanted the theme to be cat art.

No special tutorial this week…just a bit of reading. I had to write this post due to emails I’m getting from people asking for cheaper substrate alternatives to practice all the art lessons I’ve been giving them.

Have you ever tried copying an Old Master in order to learn a painting style? Are you cringing right now at the thought of “copying an Old Master”? Is it because of “copying” or the fact that I referred to “an Old Master“?

Have you ever found yourself stuck wanting to create something for someone special and you just didn’t have a clue what to make that was really nice, but quick and easy?

What Colours Do You Mix to Make Green? Who cares! just buy bottles of green paint right? Be honest, how many green tubes or bottles of paint do you have?

If you’ve ever painted on a canvas and after it’s dried, saw some little white speckles in your painting, it might not be what you did, but the brush you used.

Peek over my shoulder for an afternoon experiment making a boudoir styled mixed media doll.

Have you wondered how to paint a black bird using acrylics? Believe it or not, it’s one of the easier subjects to learn how to paint.

Have you ever been stuck loving vintage brown, but aren’t quite sure how to mix vintage brown?

Take a plain old playing card and transform it into an artist trading card with a beautiful gypsy hiding under a layer of transparent cracked medium.