Category: Mediums & Materials
See Jerry’s Blog on Art Mediums and Materials. Get tips and techniques, detailed information on what to use from watercolors to oils, acrylics to mixed media and much more. See posts below or use our search tool to find more interesting topics on your favorite art mediums and materials.
Beginners Guide How To Colored Pencils & Supplies
Beginner: How To Colored Pencil Skills With Basic Supplies Featuring: Cezanne 72ct, Colored Pencils Set The Colored Pencil medium has always maintained popularity with illustrators, designers, and students, alike. However, it has risen as a fine art medium to a huge number of devotees, demanding lightfastness improvements of manufacturers and vast color ranges. But, what’s…..
Jerry's -- 27/02/2019
Solvent-Free Oil Painting w/ Water Mixable Oil Paints: Video & Article
Water Mixable Oils: An Introduction to Solvent-Free Oil Painting – Jerry’s LIVE Episode #92 Featuring: LUKAS Berlin Water Mixable Oils! So you’ve always wanted to try oil painting, but you have asthma, a compromised immune system, or other health issues that have kept you from it? The water mixable oils revolution can change all that!…..
Jerry's -- 20/02/2019
Learn Beginner Graphite Pencil Drawing Skills
Graphite pencil drawing is a wonderful way to start your artistic journey and when beginning, it can be challenging to know where to start! First, lets discuss: What is a graphite pencil? A graphite pencil is made up of a graphite core enclosed in an plastic casing. The hardness or softness of the pencil is…..
Jerry's -- 15/02/2019
Art Decor Wood Picture Frames In White, Grey and More Colors
Enhance your walls with your own art in a great picture frame! Elegant and stylish art frames for your art from the Country Chic Frame Collection made exclusively by Jerry’s here in the USA. Made in the USA • No assembly required • Ready to hang • Includes hanging hardware When choosing picture frames for…..
Jerry's -- 08/02/2019
Learn Mixed Media Painting Step-By-Step
Jerry’s LIVE Episode #90 – Mixed Media Painting Step-By-Step: Watch and Paint Along from Start to Finish Featuring Top Brands: Turner, GOLDEN, Liquitex, Da Vinci Panels and More Mixed Media works are fun and freeing to create – you can use most any supplies together, provided you know what works with what or how it…..
Jerry's -- 08/02/2019
Acrylics Painting 101 for Beginners with Basic Supplies
What: Acrylic Painting 101 Video, Beginner Acrylic painting is a versatile and popular medium for artists of all skill levels. Acrylics 101 for Beginners with Basic Supplies When artists want to try new art supplies or a new medium, it can be hard to determine what you REALLY need (at bare minimum) to give it…..
Jerry's -- 31/01/2019
How to Prepare Canvas, Paper or Panel – Substrate Preparation
Jerry’s Live Episode #87 How To Prepare Canvas, Paper, Panel, Etc. For Your Medium Of Choice! Some artists buy low quality canvases or panels and never add additional primer when it screams for it. Then, there are those who buy exceptional quality, pre-primed substrates– only to add additional, low quality primer right over an existing,…..
Jerry's -- 17/01/2019
How-To Lessons: Basic Airbrush Skills & How it can be integrated into your artwork
Jerry’s LIVE Episode #81: How-To Lessons: Basic Airbrush Skills with Bryan Pope The mystery surrounding the medium of airbrushing and how it can be integrated into your artwork– both as a time saver and as an additional tool in your artistic arsenal- is enough to throw some artists off from ever giving it a try……
Jerry's -- 31/10/2018
How To Frame Pastel & Charcoal Artwork
Jerry’s LIVE Episode #79: Framing Pastel and Charcoal Artwork – with Sam Buie If ever there were super tricky mediums that required some know-how to frame, pastels and charcoal would be it! These dry mediums dust, flake, and powder everywhere and can be just a mess to create, let alone with how to frame them…..
Jerry's -- 16/10/2018
Basic Beginning Pastel Skills
Outside of actual pastel artists, the word “pastel” to most of us brings to mind sidewalk chalk from elementary school or gummy oil pastels from middle school art class. But there are soft pastels that are a grown up, real fine art medium– favored by famed artists as Edgar Degas, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and…..
Jerry's -- 09/10/2018
Basic Watercolor Skills -Watercolor How-To, Lesson #1 Video
Basic Watercolor Skills -Jerry’s LIVE Episode #77 Jerry’s LIVE Episode 77: Always wanted to give watercolor a try, but wanted to learn more about it and maybe see a few techniques before wading in? Have the basic supplies but just never really gave it a go? Join us for this episode, to learn a little…..
Jerry's -- 03/10/2018
Artist Rich Pellegrino – Why I Use Turner Acryl Gouache
About Rich Pellegrino Rich Pellegrino’s work is inspired by memories and interpersonal relationships. His figurative paintings are filled with allegory, questioning the authenticity of human experience. He is an award winning illustrator, globally collected fine artist, and a full-time Illustration teacher at New Hampshire Institute of Art. His work can be found in children’s books, magazines,…..
Jerry's -- 24/09/2018
How To Thicken Your Oil Paints with Impasto Medium
In this article written by our expert in house artists on Impasto Medium, its uses, benefits and why use it, oil painters will now know hoe to properly thicken oils paints for thinker, impasto style paintings. Lets delve into understanding the medium of impasto, thicken oil paint, its applications, advantages and reasons, for utilizing it…..
Jerry's -- 12/09/2018
Ultra Black & Super Opaque White Acryl Gouache Paint
Experience the Rich Ultra Jet Black And Super Opaque White Paints from Turner Super Concentrated Artist Acrylics – The MOST Vibrant Acrylics You Can Buy! The rich ultra black and super opaque white acryl gouache paints from Turner are among the finest colors ever produced in the world. Turner Acryl Gouache colors adhere to most…..
Jerry's -- 31/08/2018
Acrylic Pour Painting: 3 Vibrant Acrylic Pours
Acrylic Pour Painting Techniques on Wood Panels At Jerry’s we were asked to do an acrylic pour painting through a colander, so we did 3 of them! We have some great acrylic paints, art materials and supplies that are perfect for you to achieve great effects, colors and real vibrant pours for your acrylic pouring…..