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To Fill Your Paintings With Life!

The process of exploration is one of the most exciting things about acrylic painting.  The excitement of a new discovery, and the possibilities for painting it make me jump up and down like a small child (possibly not far from the truth!).  

Exploring the world around us allows us to discover some amazing moments.  These "simple" moments, translated onto canvas through painting with acrylics, have kept food on my table for over 20 years. They keep me excited about life.

What excites you about your acrylic painting process?  Is it the process of exploration and discovery? Preparing your surface?  Actually getting into it?  And what frustrates you?  Mixing colors?  Wrestling with your paintbrushes?  Creating compositions that pop?  Or even knowing when to stop?

Explore on this site:

▪ the potential of acrylic paints

▪ the way acrylic mediums work

▪ how limiting your brushes can be a Good Thing

▪ how improving your palette set up can improve your paintings

▪ the simple complexity of a seascape

▪ super realism techniques

▪ how your underpainting can set up your piece

▪ how to paint clouds, skyscapes and more

▪ the colours of tropical & beach landscapes

After 20 years of painting professionally, I have a lot of knowledge stuck in my head.  Before old age causes this knowledge to disappear from my brain forever, I want to share it with you!  Painting processes and techniques are something I feel should be accessible for everyone.  No elitism here.  Professional or beginner, we can all learn.

When I went to art college (longer ago than I care to remember) it seemed that unless there was angst, turmoil or negative emotion involved in the process, that there was no "art", or that the work was somehow not as "good".  I have always rebelled at this way of thinking.

Growing up on the sunny, light-filled north coast of NSW in Australia, my world was (and still is) full of nature's magic and wonder. Celebrating the amazing nuances of light, shade, tone, colour and texture was for me the only way to go.  And the feeling when it all comes together! That feeling is what it is all about.

The process of creating art should lift us up - inspire us; improve our lives, even enlighten us.  And this, in a nutshell, is the focus of this website.  Inspiring you to explore new techniques. To improve your acrylic painting processes, tools and workspace. To fill your images with light and life!  And, most importantly, to have fun while you're at it.

Take some time out for yourself and really explore your love of acrylic painting. Your curiosity about the world will be refreshed.

So let’s get into it! It's a contact sport after all; let’s chuck some paint around!

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Your painting surface. Just what you chuck paint at?? Or…..

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Acrylic Sealer. Where and When? Not just a final coat.

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