Allison Prior Art

You will love Magic Black, it's a Black paint with slow drying mediums mixed together to give you that sleek, silky surface to your canvas for painting wet on wet, just like oil painting,  when you add colors you will be able to blend them for up to 1 hour, great for doing galaxies, dark night time skies,  and anything that requires a dark backround. Use equal amounts of black paint with slow dry blending gel, slow dry blending medium, or any retarder, use any gel or medium that will extend the drying time of your acrylic paint.. See Video for full details, and demonstrations..

  How to apply Mod Podge to your Acrylic Paintings... 1. Make sure you painting is completely dry, do a test first on an old painting, or do a mock painting let it dry and apply it, the important thing is to make sure your painting is dry, let it sit for a day at least, if it's acrylics. That also goes for Oil Paintings, but wait several weeks for oils to dry.. 2. If you are painting in  oils you are better not to use mod podge, a Gloss Varnish would be better.. 3. Apply the mod podge but make sure there are no streaks, or to much mod podge in one area, you have to brush over it several time s to make sure it don't get cloudy...if you want 2 coats, make sure the first coat is dry.. Here is the reason Why you may want to put Mod Podge on your Acrylic paintings: Mod Podge Gloss will dry to a Glossy shinny finish, and make your colors more vibrant,  your Acrylics will now look like an oil painting. It will give extra protection so your painting will last longer. You can also use a

If you are wondering how to apply your Gesso to your Canvas, or if you want to reuse an old painted canvas, this video will show you how, and the different tools you can use to apply your Gesso.. Applying Gesso can be messy, but with the correct tools you can cover your canvas quickly and smoothly. In this video I will be covering up an old painting on canvas, you will will learn how Gesso works, how to apply it and how many coats you need... This is very informative if you are just learning about Gesso. Also Gesso is great for Cardboard, wood, glass, metal, and anything you want to paint on, it's like a primer to give that protection to your surface or a barrier so your paint won't sink into the surface, or to add a painting surface to paint on such as glass, you can also use Gesso in place of White paint.

Easiest way to paint reflections in water, A Trick Bob Ross used in his Paintings.. Bob Ross was a famous Artist on PBS, creating beautiful paintings in 25 minutes.. I was influenced by his teaching of oil paintings but I converted to Acrylics. These techniques are easy once you practice a few times, it takes practice make your paintings easier to paint and learn.... Have a look at this video to learn easy techniques, tips and tricks to help you learn fast and have fun..

If you love to paint skies and tree's you will love this video tutorials, Allison will show you how to the correct brush for getting great shapes to your fir tree's, or evergreen tree's, and how to add color, Allison will show you how to make small colorful bushes, and a beautifully blended sky, and easy clouds.. Check it out now, this is a 3 part series, when you finish all 3 you will have a full finished painting...