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...

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...

Today’s acrylic paint comes formulated in a range of mediums from free flowing, ink-like forms to highly bodied, gel types.Rheology and viscosity are the key properties that form the real structure...

Today’s article makes the case for cadmium’s post-modern ancestors, bismuth yellow and pyrrole red. Where did these pigments come from and why should you choose them instead of cadmium colours?