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Setting Artistic Goals

  “A New Decade, A New You.”  “This Is The Year For You!” These are all headlines that I have read the past few weeks, as 2020 creeps closer and closer. While the goal of “setting goals” is always a good idea, sometimes I find these New Year Goals/Resolution posts to be off putting. So […]

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Abstract Art and You

Geoff de Groen • October 29 2014, 2014 When it comes to abstract art, it can be helpful to determine what exactly you mean by that term. Do you mean non-representational painting, which is art that does not try to reference reality at all? Or do you mean abstract art which references reality but in […]

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Magic of Mediums: Clear Painting Medium

The magic of mediums is that there is a painting medium for just about every type of application, especially with acrylics. Want to paint very texturally? Impasto Gel or Modelling Compound. Want matte paint? Matte Medium & Varnish. Need more working time? Slow or Thick Slow Medium. But sometimes you’ll find that there is one […]

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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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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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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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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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