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Detail of Jest by Keight Maclean featuring tri-art crackle ground
acrylic paint

Breaking the Rules: How to Use Crackle Ground like a Professional

Tri-Art’s Crackle Ground was a happy accident of our lab. It's an easy to use and effective product for creating texture, but unlike our other professional products, it breaks all the rules of best...
detail of quinacridone colours from Tri-Art chart from 1994.
acrylic

Quinacridone Pigments

Quinacridones are a contemporary painter’s greatest tool when it comes to mixing, glazing and staining. Whereas artists previously needed to choose between reds of permanency, transparency or chrom...
flaking wall paint
acrylic

Staying Grounded: The Importance of Priming

The thought of priming has become a distant thought for most painters today. Although it may seem like simple white paint, acrylic gesso is a truly modern material that has solved centuries of tech...

Creative Zone

found objects, printed surfaces and collage paper in one composition.

Print + Found Objects + Collage = Divine

Using multiple printing techniques in one piece of artwork.
Texture prints framed on green wall

Printing Surfaces - Unexpected delights

Combining lino block and texture prints. A simple and fun project to provide images you couldn't predict.
Crow pint on paper and on a orange box

Fun With Lino Block

Print making with lino block. A way to print on a variety of surfaces.