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The Best Skin Tone Art Materials

It's a challenge to find the best skin tone art materials: with dry media, pre-mixed skin tones can make your portraits look more realistic.

It can be a real challenge to find the best skin tone art materials for your portrait projects. When you use dry media such as coloured pencils, pastels or markers, you’ll probably need to seek out colours in near-skin tones to make your portraits blend more easily and look more realistic, so here are the best skin tone art materials sets I could find to help you out.

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Unusual Gifts For Artists & Tips For Buying Artists' Gifts

Unusual gifts for artists & tips for buying artists' gifts - because we can all do better than blindly buying beginner sets or how-to books!

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It’s hard to find just the right gift for the artist in your life, isn’t it? If you buy art supplies, you’ve got to make sure it’s something they either need or are interested in, and that it isn’t going to be insulting because it’s below their skill level, and that can be hard to gauge. I like gifts that can raise a smile while saying, “I…

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Ways To Promote Customer Loyalty

If your business has a problem keeping hold of its customers and encouraging them to come back for more, there’s a range of reasons why that might be. But the one thing you should probably be prioritizing is a strategy that encourages customer loyalty.

If your business has a problem keeping hold of its customers and encouraging them to come back for more, there’s a range of reasons why that might be. But the one thing you should probably be prioritizing is a strategy that encourages customer loyalty. With that kind of strategy in place, you’ll find it much easier to keep hold of those customers and make consistent profits. Here are some of the…

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UK Art And Craft Sales & Discounts

I get lots of emails with vouchers, discount codes and sales offers, so here's a compilation all of the UK art and craft sales & discounts.

Every week I get lots of emails with vouchers, discount codes and sales offers from companies, because I’m an affiliate for them, so I thought I would compile all of the UK art and craft sales & discounts in one easy location.

I hope to gather more discounts for art supplies stores as time goes on, so bear with me as I find them.

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Studio Notes 29/08/20 - Is 'Skin Colour' Paint Racist?

Studio Notes 29/08/20 - An art supply company has hit the headlines by challenging paint manufacturers to rename their 'flesh tone' paints, but is 'skin colour' paint racist?

An art supply company has hit the headlines by challenging paint manufacturers to rename their ‘flesh tone’ paints, but is ‘skin colour’ paint racist?

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Studio Notes 22/08/20 - Making Face Masks

Studio Notes 22/08/20 - Making face masks. It's time to step back out into the real, pandemic-razed world, so I need to sew new face masks.

The time has come to make some cotton face masks, months later than everyone else who has a sewing machine and a fabric stash.

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Studio Notes 15/08/20 - Learning To Solder Copper Pipe

Studio Notes 15-08-20 - Learning to solder copper pipe. A bit of practise with home plumbing might lead to more metal sculpture techniques.

This is the third time I’ve lived in a house and been through a full bathroom gutting and renovation, and I never want to do it again. At least we’ve had a bit of fun with learning to solder copper pipe this week.

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Studio Notes 08/08/20 - Testing Jacquard Solarfast Dyes

Studio Notes 08/08/20 - It's been a long time coming but I finally got another sunny day to try testing Jacquard Solarfast dyes.

It’s been a long time coming but I finally got another sunny day to try testing Jacquard Solarfast dyes.* I started these tests way back in June but wanted to see if they could be improved.

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Studio Notes 01/08/20 - Designing A Steampunk Bathroom

Studio Notes 01/08/20 - Designing A Steampunk Bathroom. It's been a tiring week of DIY, so I thought I'd share some of our renovation plans.

Last week’s rubber press moulds yielded a strange, sticky-looking but poseable figure, but I wasn’t able to finish it enough to show. Instead, I thought I’d share how I spent the last few weeks designing a steampunk bathroom.

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Studio Notes 25/07/20 - DIY Rubber Press Moulds

Studio Notes 25/07/20 - I took a little time out to make simple DIY rubber press moulds of my figure, ready for casting a new animation puppet.

Our bathroom renovation is taking up most of my time, and next week it’ll take even more, so I wanted to try something that wouldn’t take too much attention but would help move my stop motion project along – making DIY rubber press moulds of my figure.

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Studio Notes 18/07/20 - Filming A Crafsman Tribute

Studio Notes 18/07/20 - This week I had to make sure that I made time for filming a Crafsman tribute for his "You Be Crafsman" YouTube competition.

This was a “bitty” kind of creative week – doing a bit of this and a bit of that, and starting a bit of a big job when we began our bathroom renovation. Still, I had to make sure that I made time for filming a Crafsman tribute for his YouTube competition.

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Gullible

If you've found yourself bagged by a Bitcoin 2 for 1, Nigerian prince or some other cullion, you might have been gullible, but the scammer's a real testicle.

adj. Credulous, easily tricked.

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Studio Notes 11/07/20 - Creating My First Font

Studio Notes 11/07/20 - Creating my first font was a bit frustrating, but it doesn't have to be if you give yourself time. I made mine in less than a day!

After another week of rain and not being able to get on with my outdoor projects, I ended up churning over ideas in front of my laptop, and that’s how I suddenly found myself unexpectedly creating my first font.

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Hoax

We might be more likely these days to see hoaxes as part of conspiracy theories than to think of them as magic tricks, but both cases use smoke and mirrors to deflect attention from the truth.

n. A falsehood spread in bad faith; a deception.

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Studio Notes 27/06/20 - The Free Or Cheap Adobe CC Alternatives I Use

Studio Notes 04/07/20 - here are the free or cheap Adobe CC alternatives I use, because Adobe Creative Cloud is prohibitively expensive for many artists.

It seems as though everyone has a post about free or cheap Adobe CC alternatives, because that stuff is plain old expensive. So instead of copying someone else’s list, I thought I would focus on the ones I actually use and am planning to use, as well as the free or cheap design resources that have helped me.

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Sciolist

Are you an expert, or just a sciolist? Well, take heart that if you are a sciolist, chances are you're probably incapable of realising it.

n. A person whose knowledge or understanding is shallow, although they think they’re deep.

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Studio Notes 27/06/20 - Finishing The 250 Pewter Coin

Studio Notes 27/06/20 - It's been a long time coming, but this week I finished the 250 pewter coin, and with it, the first phase of my money artworks.

It’s been a long time coming, but this week I finished the 250 pewter coin, and with it, the first phase of my money artworks.

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