Painting techniques, step-by-step, how-to, information and demonstrations.


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Painting Techniques
This painting techniques section has information, demonstrations and step by step projects, not only from myself, but other artists as well, giving different painting methods, techniques and skills you may enjoy trying or learning about.

Cold Wax Painting
New Zest-it Wax focused site at www.artywax.co.uk	About Zest-it Cold Wax Painting Medium
New Information about the Cold Wax Painting Medium on Zest-it site	Cold Wax Painting Medium
New Brushable Wax Resist for use with watercolour instead of masking fluid	Brushable Wax Resist
New Zest-it Wax Solvent	Wax Solvent on Zest-it dot com

Oil Painting Techniques
Colour mixing information especially for oil paint - what you need to know to help with mixing oil colours.	colour mixing and how to avoid 'making mud'
Painting mediums can cause confusion for those new to oil painting, if you would like to know more about using them, try this page.	Zest-it Clear Painting Medium.
Use this link if you would like to know more about how to give a final protective varnish to your oil painting.	Using Damar Picture Varnish
Tole Painting Techniques
Tole painting and a little history about Traditional Tole painting can be found on these pages on our Zest-it site.	traditional tole history
Very popular page of basic Tole brush strokes using oil paint.	tole brush strokes
About One-stroke brushes for Tole painting using oil paint, also suitable for use with other media.	One Stroke Brushes

Pen and Ink
New Vintage Pelikan Graphos Pens, nibs and sets. Lovingly reconditioned and in super working order again. Spare nibs and feeds.	Vintage Graphos Pens
New Need to remove Indian and Permanent Ink from your dip pen nibs? Have a look at the Zest-it Dip Pen Nib Cleaner, since its introduction earlier last year it has become very popular - 'efficiently does the job!'	Dip Pen Nib Cleaner
The properties of ink and its use with dip pens, getting the ink to flow, types of ink to use and more.	Properties Ink and its use
Dip Pen nibs for drawing - an introduction into the type of dip pen nib to use in pen and ink drawing and how to choose them.	Dip Pen Nibs
Vintage dip pen nibs and many others at our new online shop for those interested in anything Pen and Ink.	Dip pen nib shop
Coloured Pencil
New website about Zest-it Pencil Blend	www.pencil-blend.co.uk
Lots of information, interesting links and artists demo's on using Coloured Pencils, different papers and solvents.	Making a mark
Zest-it Blending Sponge for blending Coloured pencils.	Blending Sponge
Parchment Craft
Blending Coloured pencil on Parchment paper, using the Blending Sponge and inking using a dip pen nib.	Blending and Inking on Parchment
Oil Pastel
The in-depth Oil Pastel page on Zest-it.com covers surfaces that can be used, blending the pastels and using Zest-it with Oil pastels.	Oil pastels
Gouache
An Introduction to Gouache paint, it's properties and painting techniques.	Gouache Paint

Silk Painting
Silk painting techniques, galleries and instructions can be found on Leonard Thompson's site.	silk painting instructions.
Acrylic painting
New Acrylic Brush Cleaner, bring stiff acrylic coated brushes back to life. An introduction to the brush cleaner including a video.	Acrylic Brush Cleaner
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