Unusual painting techniques

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Are you looking to create beautiful expressive art with a loose painting style? Are you interested in learning a unique acrylic painting technique? If so, you're in the right place! In this guide, you'll learn how to paint loosely with acrylics and create stunning artwork with ease. Discover the key techniques and materials needed to achieve a loose painting style and how to apply it to create stunning artworks.

I generally talk about using cold wax as a process of adding and taking away. The taking away is all about applying reduction techniques which is basically removing oil and cold wax with the intention of creating interesting effects and textures and to also reveal earlier layers of colour and texture. Here I will illustrate how you can use tissue paper to create some interesting effects.

I'm a visual artist living in Cornwall, in the UK and working in collage and printmaking, drawing, painting, digital media and photography.

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