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Why Have an Art Studio
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Having your own studio can help encourage and confirm an artist in a psychological way. Having the complete art studio is essential for a creative, productive and successful artist. Whether it is a closet, only half of a room, or a well-appointed room, artists need a space that best matchehttp their needs. Each artist’s genre and each circumstance are unique. Some artists combine creative spaces, some rent out space away from home. Some artists have turned a garage, a spare bedroom a basement, an attic or an old barn into a studio.
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An art studio does not make you an artist, however, an artist needs a place for pursuing their passion and it helps to be away from distractions. In a studio, you can listen to music, have wireless Internet to research an art project, you can clean or organize your space in a manner that suits you and all your materials, tools, and supplies are there, helping you be more productive. You deserve that place where you can disappear and concentrate on your art. You need a place to create.
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Where to have an Art Studio
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If you are like most artists, your passion is to work on your art every day. Unfortunately, this back and forth ritual of taking out and putting back can play havoc on creativity. It can easily give an excuse not to paint. As an artist, financials should be the deciding factor. After all the other things are considered, does it out weigh the cost? 
How much art do you have to sell to make a profit above your cost of the studio? Do you have to pay electric? Gas? Internet? Phone? Building fees? Deposit? When you have your studio in your home much of the extras are already included.
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JEWELRY MAKING TOOLS
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I have been creating art for many years. I use oil, acrylic and pastels for my painting. In the past I would have a difficult time finding the various items I wanted in one location. Knowing about the different kinds of paints and art supplies are important especially when buying art supplies online. Understanding the properties of the ingredients found in any paint will affect your success when painting with them.
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About Oil Paints
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Oil paints are very highly regarded in the artist community and one of the most flexible forms of painting.
Oil paint gives a lushness and depth of color that is unmatched by any other medium. Oil paint takes a long time to dry, but the results are incredible. Oil based paints can be blended, which is an added benefit when you are trying to achieve certain colors.
Oil paints are known for being long lasting and holds their color for a long time.
Oil paints dry to the touch within two weeks, and are generally dry enough to be varnished in six months to a year. It may take years for a painting to dry completely. Oil paint is made up of pigment, binder and a solvent. The pigment is the color and is usually a powder. The binder in oil paint is the linseed oil and the solvent can be a variety of things, but most often it is turpentine or mineral spirits.
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Supplies For Oil Painting
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A palette is a rigid, flat surface on which a painter arranges, and mixes paints. A palette is usually made of wood, plastic, ceramic, or other hard, inert, nonporous material, and can vary greatly in size and shape. The most commonly known type of painter's palette is made of a thin wood board designed to be held in the artist's hand and rest on the artist's arm.
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Acrylic Gesso
Painting Mixing Scraper, Stainless Steel Spatula…
15 long handle brushes
Fan: Size 4, 8;
Flat: Size 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 30;
Round: Size 2, 6, 8, 12,14, 20;
Flat Brush: Size 5.
100% PURE HOG BRISTLES does not shed & is stiff and made for Oil Painting. The fibers are constructed with a blend of hog hairs that workers tied together and aligned by hand so that the hairs won’t be left on the canvas while you are painting.
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About Acrylic Paints
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Acrylic paints are extremely versatile, fast drying and can be used straight out of the tube.
Other media like oil and pastels can be applied on top of dried acrylic surface and can be used in a matte finish or high gloss finish. Acrylic paint contains pigment suspension in acrylic polymer emulsion, allowing them to be tinned in water and become water resistant when dry. Depending on how much the paint is diluted with water or altered with acrylic gels, other media or pastes the finished acrylic painting can look a lot like a watercolor or an oil painting. The finished project can also have a distinctive appearance unlike other media.
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Supplies for Acrylic Painting
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Charcoal pencil for sketching
Gesso primer
Acrylic Gel Retarder slows the drying time.
Acrylic matt & Gloss varnishes to from cracking, yellowing and pollution protect your finished paintings
Impasto gel medium creates a thick, bulky texture.
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Water jars to store your paint brushes
Spray bottle to lightly moisten the paint on your painting
Cleaning cloths to wipe up spills, wipe your brushes off after rinsing and to keep your painting area clean
Painting knives are used for moving paint around on your canvas.
Use Sponges for interesting effects.
Acrylic paper
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Bulldog clips to attach your paper to a sturdy backing board mounted on your easel.
Canvas,
Canvas board
Charcoal pencil
Acrylic matt & Gloss varnishes
Impasto gel medium
Charcoal pencil,
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About Pastel Chalks
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Pastel Chalks are unique because they are not mixed together the way other media like oils, acrylic or watercolors.
The makings of pastel chalks are mixing pigments of clay combined with gum to make a paste that is hardened into soft or hard pastels, pastel pencils or oil pastels. Pastels are blended by over lapping strokes to achieve the required color. A pastel artist must have a wide assortment of pastel sticks to work with as well as a strong sense of color layering.
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Supplies for Pastel Painting
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Pastel paper
Use a Drawing Board with tacks or clips
Padding
Kneaded Eraser
Pastels (sets of 24 to 48 assorted soft pastels).
Non synthetic Chamois
Measuring Stick
A dowel
Baby Wipes To clean your hands while working
Water Jars to store your paint brushes
Spray Bottle to lightly moisten the paint on your painting
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About Watercolors
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Watercolor paint is a method of painting using a combination of colored paints and water.
Watercolor paint is transparent, and the white of the ground, or paper, underneath provide a light that shines through the painting.
Watercolor painting is created by dipping a wet brush into the paint and applying it to the paper. The amount of water on the brush determines the lightness or darkness of the color. If more water is used the color will be brighter. If less
Water is used the color will be darker. Watercolors dry very quickly so the brushstrokes cannot be changed very easily once they are placed on the paper. Watercolor is great for making a quick sketch to be finished at another time. Color glazing is very effective in water coloring. Glazing's are created by adding a very thin pale layers or washes over each layer.
This effect creates new colors and gives a luminous result.
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A medium round brush
Flat brushes size 4 and 10, and a large flat brush,
Sable is considered the ultimate hair for a watercolor
Brush; also get a small, stiff-haired, flat brush.
Hard pencils #2H
A rigid drawing board or panel
Gummed brown tape
Watercolor paper
A sketchbook
A water container for cleaning brushes and thinning paint
Easel
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