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Painting oils, acrylics or watercolor? Look for basic painting tutorials and projects perfect for beginners. If you’ve never held a paint brush or bought a tube of paint before, come sit by us.
Landscapes (especially vintage scenes) painted in oils is a favorite, along with flowers and birds. Then acrylics for stenciling and one-stroke painting. Our version of one-stroke roses is surely the simplest ever.
Watercolor painting is our latest venture. If you’ve mastered other types of painting – oils, acrylics – watercolor is an exhilarating variation. And like the others, can be as easy or as difficult as you want to make it. We stick with easy.
Valentine Tea-Towel DIY: Owl Always Love You. Fabric Paint design of a Mama and Baby Owl perching on a branch, love hearts streaming between them. We haven’t done a tea-towel design with fabric paints for awhile, like this one or this stenciled one. This post talks about the easiest design transfer method for fabric. Today…
Need a calming hobby? This watercolor floral birthday card is a DIY anyone can make. Follow the no-stress steps to a beautiful finish! In these past posts, we have a beginner’s Watercolor Pencil Hydrangea Tutorial and Fall Tree Painting. This Tutorial shows how to paint a watercolor background, which we’ll go over again in…
How to Paint Hydrangea: An Experiment With Watercolor Pencils. This is a Pre-Beginner Level Watercolor Painting Tutorial with next-to-professional results. My very first experiments with watercolor painting were with watercolor pencils. They seemed a safer alternative than pot of paint with the potential to drip and slide all over the paper. Well, as time…
Today’s How-To is a Butterfly painted in shimmer watercolor paint dressed up with pearls. Then the cut-out beauty is mounted to a greeting card or on wood for Spring Decor. I love my sisters, all 6 of them. And I’m looking forward to seeing them in a few weeks. With our 3 brothers. Reunion time!…
There are times when a special book comes along. A book like “1000 Gifts.” The book that inspires you to take another look at your life. And then you find the strength to begin a personal challenge. One that may be long overdue. A 1000 gifts personal challenge to be more thankful. To fight for…
Inspired Scripture Markers DIY: Quick and Easy Craft to mark the verses and make quick notes in your Bible during Church service. Sometimes you just need a little note added to the bookmark you use to note the scriptures your pastor reads on Sunday morning. Like which verses he read, or a quick quote…
Today we’re going to paint a Watercolor Butterflywith a black resist outline.Black resist can be done with oil pastel, crayon or black glue.We’ll show you how. So this weekend the g’little girls want to come for Saturday sleepover. Grampa bought a game to play with them. Kim is planning something, I’m not sure what it…
Learn how to make this upcycled round accent table into a giant wall clock. Add paint, stenciling and numbers for a unique décor piece. Here are more painting tutorials and DIYs you should check out. Wood Surface Prep Tutorial for Decorative Painting Decorative Painting Surface Prep for Metal and Steel DIY Concrete Planters: a…
DIY Upcycle: An Old Child’s Chair Gets a New Coat of Leopard Skin with craft paint and a brush. A quick and easy faux painting tutorial. In “The Last Battle,” the final book in C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, a greedy ape named Shift gets a simple-minded donkey (Puzzle) to dress up in…
Fall Tree Watercolor Tutorial to make easy hand painted cards or wall decor. And the best part? It’s only a half hour project! Let’s Paint Today Kim came into the office and said she wanted to paint a fall picture. Has she ever painted before? No. Has she studied watercolor painting or watched over…
Wood surface prep tutorial for decorative painting shows you how to prepare both raw wood and up-cycled stained or painted wood. Talking about decorative painting is like taking a trip down memory lane. When I got married, I started a new life in more ways than one. I not only had a new husband…
Decorative Painting Surface Prep for Metal and Steel takes a little (or in some cases, a lot of) elbow grease. With the right supplies, though, rusty metal provides a superb “canvas” for your talent.