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Atelier Interactive Demonstration Winter School July 2013

Here is an excerpt from a video taken of Barry and Lucy McCann demonstrating at the Art Scene winter school at the Stuart University in Bathurst during July 2013. Barry is demonstrating the virtues of Atelier Interactive and both Barry and Lucy make some interesting comments. […]

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Jim Cobb Discusses Atelier

Chroma’s founder, Jim Cobb, discusses top Australian, UK and American artists’ works and the paint they used to create them, including Atelier Interactive Artists’ Acrylics and Atelier Free Flow. […]

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3 Zones of Atelier Interactive

In this painting video, Chroma’s Resident Artist Jennifer VonStein illustrates the 3 Zones of Atelier Interactive Professional Artists’ Acrylics. These methods use Fast Drying Techniques for over painting, Controlled Drying Techniques for blending, and Slow Drying Techniques for extended wet-in-wet painting. […]

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Richard Rogers – Painting Demonstration

How to paint with acrylics. Australian Artist Richard Rogers demonstrates using Atelier Interactive – He explains how this unique paint can allow you to control open time and even unlock touch dry layers of paint to once again blend wet-in-wet. […]

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Image Transfers

Image transfers made easy using photocopies and Atelier Binder Medium. Learn how to do this fun and easy painting technique that can be used for any mixed media, collage or Atelier Interactive or acrylic painting. […]

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Glazing Techniques with Atelier Interactive

Glazing is a painting technique in which you apply a thin, transparent layer of paint on top of a dry layer resulting in a new or enhanced color. Instead of physically mixing colors together, such as blue and yellow to make green, you apply a transparent blue layer on top of the yellow paint layer […]

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Basics of Varnishing

Varnishing . . . Why? What? When? How? What’s the difference between water-based varnishes and solvent-based varnishes? Why should I cover my painting with an isolation coat? What’s the difference between matte, satin and gloss varnishes? For answers to these questions and others, please view Chroma’s NEW Basics of Varnishing – Part 1 video featuring […]

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Basics of Interactive

Watch how you can use traditional acrylic techniques like overpainting and with just a push of your finger rewet Interactive to blend, feather and soften edges. One acrylic paint does it all – Interactive! […]

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Mixing Skin Tones

Colours for skin tones vary immensely between the home value of a person’s skin as there are areas of high light and shade and subtle changes in colour around various parts of the body. When painting skin it’s very common to find that you use a lot of different colours. As these are perennial questions […]

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