Tips & Techniques

While working with any type of paint, you create waste that is contaminated by paint. Paint cannot be disposed of in your regular trash or the sewer system, so always make sure to properly dispose of this waste to minimize your impact on the environment. But how do you properly dispose of paint waste? In this video we will show you how to collect the waste, how to clean palettes and brushes and how to handle paint tubes.

The fact that some colours remain on the paper and can only be partially washed away is due to the type of pigment (particle size) and/or the quality of the paper used.

Oil paper is easy to take with you for sketching in oil paint. Another benefit of using oil paper is that you can cut out pieces to frame or to use in collages, for example.

Acrylic paper is widely used when working on location and for experimenting with new applications. Carrying paper is a lot easier than carrying a canvas, and working with paper also makes it possible to cut out sections, frame them or attach them to something else.

Watercolour is a technique that is typically practised on paper. Your paper is the very foundation of your work and that is why it is important for it to meet certain quality requirements. The paper you choose is also partly personal preference.

Curious to learn how paper is made? You can find the whole process in this blog!

Over the years, paper has become an indispensable product in the daily lives of many people, like newspapers, toilet paper, books, magazines and works of art. But, the history of paper started many years ago. Even before paper came into existence, people used caves and other natural surfaces to engrave and paint symbols, like in the caves of Lascaux in France.

Apart from the safety symbols, other symbols can be found on the packaging. These may be legally prescribed symbols as well as symbols that have been mutually agreed upon by certain branches of industry.