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How to Prep a Canvas for Acrylic or Oil Painting
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Acrylic Oil Painting Painting Techniques Tips & Techniques What's New at Princeton Brush

How to Prep a Canvas Before Acrylic or Oil Painting

Feeling inspired and ready to paint your canvas? It might be tempting to put your brush right to the canvas, but you need to prep a canvas before you begin. To keep your oil or acrylic paintings looking their best for years to come, priming your surface is the first step!...

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Acrylic Pouring Art
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Acrylic Art Trends Tips & Techniques What's New at Princeton Brush

How to Do Acrylic Pouring

The art of acrylic pouring isn’t as hard as you might think! To create pouring pieces, you use acrylic paints along with a medium, and pour it onto a canvas or other surface. The results are beautiful abstract effects....

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Princeton Select and System3 Acrylic Paint
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Acrylic Tips & Techniques What's New at Princeton Brush

A Beginners Guide to Acrylic Painting with Princeton Brushes

Have you been wanting to try acrylic painting? Starting with a new medium can be scary, so we created some tips and tricks that will make it a breeze! Acrylic paints are an affordable, versatile, and forgiving medium. When painting with acrylic, there are a few common mistakes that you might run into. Fortunately, they’re easy to avoid if you know what to look out for. Let’s get painting!...

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Acrylic Artist Tips Oil Painting Plein Air Tips & Techniques What's New at Princeton Brush

Will Your Art Last? 3 Potential Problems To Keep In Mind

When you create something that you re proud of you want it to stay crisp and vibrant for as long as possible Fortunately for painters it s...

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Acrylic Tips & Techniques

Learn to Paint Iris Flowers

Learn how to paint an Iris flower garden in this free step by step acrylic painting tutorial by Angela Anderson Her easy to follow instructions...

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Acrylic Oil Painting Plein Air

3 Brush Lines for Painting en Plein Air with Oils and Acrylics

Aspen Designed with plein air artists in mind Aspen s medium stiffness synthetic bristle performs exceptionally well both retaining shape...

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Acrylic Artist Spotlight What's New at Princeton Brush

Landscape Artist Johnathan Harris Tests New Aspen Brushes

American landscape artist Johnathan Harris has been painting professionally for years In addition to working on commissions for corporate...

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Acrylic Artist Spotlight What's New at Princeton Brush

Artist Spotlight: Rheni Tauchid

Rheni Tauchid is an Ontario-based artist author and educator Her abstract style of painting is connected to landscape and repetitive pattern...

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Acrylic Featured Brush Mixed Media

Featured Brush: Catalyst Polytip Bristle Brushes (Series 6400 and 6450)

Featured Brush Catalyst Polytip Bristle Brushes Series and The Catalyst brushes simply have no peer for acrylic work They are...

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Acrylic Artist Spotlight Tips & Techniques Watercolor

Vladimir London: Artist, Author, and Teacher

Vladimir London is an international artist author and teacher with an extensive education in fine arts and art education His work can be found...

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Acrylic Artist Spotlight Art Trends Fashionable Fridays: Art in Fashion

City Romance: Hand-painted Handbags by Helen Artis

Helen Artis is an artisan from Zaporizhia Ukraine who designs sews and decorates original leather handbags Originally a designer of women s...

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Acrylic Featured Brush Mixed Media Oil Painting Watercolor

Featured Brush: Umbria Series 6250 Special Synthetic

The short-handled Princeton Umbria Series is one of our most popular brush lines It delivers exceptional performance when used with medium...

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