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.
   

33 things to cure artist block

Have you ever had one of those days or weeks where you want to draw something but you can't? Well, here's 33 tips to cure your artist block

1. Listen to music
2. Stay positive
3. Remain focused
4. Take a break
5. Exercise
6. Be confident in yourself
7. Mindmap
8. Find new inspiration pieces
9. Go outside
10. Keep a notepad on you at all times
11. Copy from other artists instead of creating your own work
12. Do a life drawing session
13. Doodle
14. Change mediums
15. Take a new direction
16. Draw something different- anatomy for example
17. Read things that will stimulate the visual vortex
18. Re-design something e.g. old cartoons, manga, etc
19. Leave it for a week
20. Just do it
21. Find yourself a genius
22. Talk through it
23. Sleep
24. Read some books
25. Meditate
26. Do some yoga
27. Force yourself to procrastinate
28. Keep busy with other things
29. Sit down, shut up, go off-line
30. Go and sit in the park and watch the world go buy
31. Do some photography
32. Search for excitement
33. Draw the same thing for 30 days in different ways