5 Best Art Galleries in Canada
A list of five best art galleries across Canada, brief description of the galleries, and attractions for visitors/tourists.
Playing with Transparent Layers featuring a Glossy Gel Bird
Who doesn’t love playing with transparent layers!
How to Stop Marking Up Your Metal
Do you get frustrated when working with metal and your tools do more damage than good?
Protect Your Hands from Rough Work – No Cry Gloves for Sanding – Review
If you are looking to protect your hands while working with tools, gardening, handline roses or other thorny flowers, these gloves are for you.
Dreaming of Taino Beach Mixed Media Miniature Art
In this tutorial, I’m using various things collected from a trip to the Bahamas to create a miniature mixed media piece of artwork.
Metallic Paint Comparison featuring Rose Gold
I’ve been getting a few emails from people asking about all the types of “rose gold” paints I have and this video is to show you the differences between them all.
Metallic Paints with a Chalk Finish and Using Dimensional Paint Through a Stencil
In this experiment, I’m seeing how far I can push the textured metallic paint through stencils and then another experiment is turning a metallic paint into a chalk finish metallic paint.
Psychedelic Two Tone Metallic Experiment
ya’ll know I love circles, anything geometric. Well in this video I think I gave myself a headache with the psychedelic stencil I was using! It was an experiment with using two tones of metallic paint.
Two Tone Metallic Tiger Head – Stencil Experiment
I’m experimenting (all week) with 2 and 3 tone metallics for a metal piece I’m going to be working on in the future. Prototyping with paint is so much easier, instant results and cheaper if the prototype fails.
Wood Burning with Stencils from Stencil Revolution and Doing a Massive Project with Joe
This started out as a stencil review, but thanks to Stencil Revolution, a project Joe and I have been working on (conception started last year) will make the job so much easier.
How to Make a Basic Bezel for your Artwork using Flat Aluminum Wire
How to Make a Basic Bezel for your Artwork using Flat Aluminum Wire
Blocking Dust and Fumes – The Type of Mask I Use with a Demo
In this video I’m answering a couple of emails I’ve received on the actual masks I wear in the studio.
How to Make Your Own DIY Alcohol Ink
With all the recipes online for DIY alcohol ink, I’m sure this one isn’t new. I need custom colours for some resin and wood blanks and thought I’d experiment using Prismacolour Markers.
Evening in the Forest – Making a Birch Slab Pendant with an Experiment
In this video, you will truly see that vanity can sometimes get the best of me. I thought the painting I did was more superb over any stamped image, but oh no… the stamped image was so good, I painted over what I did and stamped instead.The goal for this...
One Door Closes and Another One Opens – Quick and Easy ATC
Fair warning, I’m super chatty in this video. My stress level was so low (I’m now retired), I was so relaxed and just wanted to have fun with you all. Relaxed my butt…I was full of energy!btw.. I’m retired from formal teaching of art lessons in...
Why Not Wear Your Next Painting? featuring a Seascape necklace
As a creative, you probably go through phases of the type of art you like to create right? different mediums, substrates, materials… that’s what keeps us inspired, trying new things.In this lesson, you will learn how to create a painting and turn it into a...
Seascape and Shells Shadow Box
In this video lesson, you’ll learn how to create a 3D shadow box with shells using Triple Thick as an alternative to resin. Before we get to that, a seascape will be painted and texture added with Texture Sand. ← I was Created to Create Why Not Wear Your...
I was Created to Create
After a bad few weeks, I felt the need to create something…didn’t really have a plan, but knew I wanted it to be minimalistic, take in circles, which I love and to use some gifted items.
Should You Use Cheap Supplies When Learning How to Draw
Saving money when learning how to draw is usually on beginner’s minds… but should you use cheap drawing supplies?
Picasso Paint Pour Into a Beautiful Hot Mess of Colourful Molten Lava
So yeah, I was really inspired by some Picasso styled art I was teaching and thought.. hmmmm what if I used a paint pour method to try and create a Picasso abstract. Ok, this does end up turning into something freakish.
5 Reasons to Make your Own Holiday Decor Accessories
Are you ready for the holidays? The holidays are around the corner and I don’t know if you’re anything like me… you LOVE the idea of making your own holiday decor accessories, but oh it’s so much easier just going to the store. Yeah, then you...
What Happens when Kandinsky Meets Picasso
What do you get when you mash two master artists together? I love Kandinsky for art featuring circles and Picasso, well it’s really the faces I love.
How to Store Your Paint Skins
What do you do with the left over skins after a paint pour? You can throw them out or re-use them in another piece of artwork…but storing them so they stay flat was a challenge. Maybe this video tutorial will work for you?
How to Make a Marbled Acrylic Skin
If you’re not into creating paint pour wall art, paint skins are great to use in other pieces of art because they are so unique.
The Teal Pumpkin Project: 7 Projects for Kids
7 videos of projects that kids, teens and grown ups can do for Halloween & tweak the faces and use the same techniques to decorate ornaments for the holidays.
How to Make Your Own Screamer Rocks – an experiment
Although this was just an experiment, you can get so many ideas for a variety of seasons.
Underwater Cotton Swab Painting
In this art experiment, I’ll be using a cotton swap to create a tiny painting of an underwater scene. I did mess up the order of the bubbles, and I love it regardless. A challenge would be to use other types of tools to create paintings such as...
Making a Big Black Screamer Rock
The inspiration for this experiment came from Mia’s skull doggy coat. Although things worked out differently in the end, it’s still something that’s really cool.
Making Day of the Dead Artist Trading Cards with Texture and Metallics
In this video lesson, you will learn how to make small art only using a stencil. But to keep things interesting, we’ll experiment with metallics and texture, spice things up with the theme of Day of the Dead and make artist trading cards so you can give or trade them away.
Magnet Landscape Canvas Painting Using a Cotton Swab
In this art experiment, I’ll be using cotton swabs instead of brushes to paint a teeny tiny landscape painting.