Winter landscape miniature painting tutorial

Hi friends today I show you how to paint a winter landscape on a wooden button. I used this time oil paints, but it may would be easier for you to use acrylic paints. The Liquin I mixed in a tiny bit in each paint on my palette. It makes the paint more fluid and shortens the drying time. These are the materials that I used: Oil paints (acrylics will work too)wooden buttonbrusheswhite gessoLiquin The button has a diameter of 4cm. I drilled a hole in it and added 2 layers of white gesso. You could do the base layer» Read more

Snowman rock painting tutorial

In todays tutorial I paint for you a snowman. I used oils but you can also use acrylics. Before I started to paint I drilled a hole in the wooden button and primed it with two layers of white gesso. My materials are: oil paintswooden buttonwhite gessobrushesLiquinsoap for brush cleaning The Liquin I used only as a hint in each paint to make it a bit fluid and let it dry faster. If you add too much it could yellow over time. I painted the rock aka button yesterday and today it is touchdry. The brushes that you see on» Read more

Rock painting red berries with snow

Hi friends, today I want to show you how you can paint a rock (or in my case a wooden disc) with red snowy berries. I used a wooden disc where I drilled a hole into it. I planned to use it later as an amulet or as an x-mas ornament on the tree. For this project you need following tools: a rock or a wooden discq-tipsbrusheswhite gessoacrylic paintsvarnish You don’t need the exact colors. Choose similar tones. Let’s have fun. At first we will add two layers of the white gesso. The main reason why I am doing this» Read more