Paint

"The program or the physical gloopy art stuff?"

Paint, as many people know, comes in different types, packets and of course colours. This is your quick guide to the many different types of paint that is out there in the world.

1. Oil Paint - This is a thick and slow drying paint with a strong colour. It is great for pieces that includes plenty of colour and even better for textured paintings. However, oil paint can be expensive and they are not the best paint for beginners.
   
2. Water-colour Paint - These are can be much thinner paints compared to oil paints (it does depend if you have a pallet of water-colours or tubes of them, depending on the thickness and intensity of the colour). They can be great for their colour, even though you have to mix most of them yourself. Water-colour paint is one of the best for quick, slightly rough painting, and is one of the best paints to use for landscapes.
   
3. Poster Paint - Poster paint is the best for children as it dries relatively quick, it's cheaper than all other paints and you can have lots of fun with it without worrying about it going everywhere. It doesn't have the strongest of colours, nor textures, which is makes it best for kids.
   
4. Acrylic Paint - This paint is my favorite and I personally use it all the time. It is not the most expensive of the paints, and produces some wonderful colours. It doesn't take half as long to dry as oil paints do. Acrylic paints are the best for young artists, GCSE and A level students, or anyone who has art as a hobby.  These paints also come in one of the widest variety of colours that you could possibly see and with every company, there is a slightly different shade, creating even more shades. This paint is also the best to experiment with. I shall emphasize this again and again, acrylic paint is fabulous.
   
5. Printing Paint - This paint is used for many different things, of which includes monoprinting. This is a very slow drying paint (not as fast as acrylic, but not as slow as oil!). It allows you to paint a lot of detail or a large surface without drying, so you can press on to it and still get the whole pattern. It is easy to mix and not one of the well known types of paint. It is the best to do monoprinting with.
   

It screams "BUY ME"

Giovanni Civardi - Drawing: A Complete Guide

I only picked this book up days ago and straight away I fell in love with it. Drawing: A Complete Guide is the book for all artists be you new or old, inexperienced or a professional. For only £9.99, this 440 page book will give you tips, ideas and help on everything to do with drawing.

This book first popped out at me in my local Hobbycraft store. Here it had the top ten books of 2014, which is where this book was. Opening it up it was pure artistic heaven with a helping hand on everything to do with drawing- this book literally screamed out "BUY ME!"

Work in progress: One Direction

Have you ever wondered how to draw using light and shade or perhaps how to draw different landscapes, seascapes and buildings? Then this is the book for you. It includes all that and more for your own small guide on how to draw pretty much anything.
"This is an essential book for anyone learning to draw, or wishing to improve their drawing. Starting with the basics of drawing techniques, Civardi gives expert advice on drawing portraits, the clothed figure, hands and feet and scenery, with sections on the importance of light and shade and on the nude. Civardi's technical advice and practical tips, accompanied by his own outstanding drawings, make this an invaluable resource for any artist."

My best friend in the art world:
Derwent Graphic Pencils

So I say, go out and buy this book to help improve your skills, start your skills off or just to get some amazing tips on drawing techniques for all sorts of drawings!
Buy here at Hobbycraft or Amazon