Experimental painting techniques

You don’t need any special tools to add texture to your acrylic painting, you just need a little creativity.

Image transfer techniques can be used to transfer an image from one surface to another, and they can be a fun and creative way to add a personal touch to your projects. One image transfer technique…

They're not just for keeping your eyes pinned open at 3am ... energy drinks can be used to develop photographs too. Stephen Gill's psychedelic new series is fuelled by the fizzy orange stuff. Take a trip through a world soaked in Red Bull, Monster Rehab and the rest

Molton lava meets burnished gold at Pearl Lam galleries this January, in an atmospheric display of new, humoously titled works from Dale Frank.

Salt experiments and using paper as a brush. When using salt, you start a process that takes some time and a little bit of planning. The salt melts slowly and need much water and pigments in the process. During the melting process, the surface tension of the water is lowered and will make the pigments…

If you're just getting into watercolors or you've been painting for a while, sometimes it's fun to just experiment with techniques that you don't normally use when painting. I usually only paint using the basic watercolor techniques (see #1-#3) , but some of these are really fun to play around with,

Experimental drawing tools. [Paint on dyes using parts of the plants they came from?!]

Quick talk through painting demo using Watercolour painting techniques including masking fluid and granulation fluid, skewer branches, wet in wet washes and ...

I thought I'd start my blog with an overview of last year's main projects. This is a photo of the final composition for the experimental dra...