Useful websites for traditional mediums

Painting

• Making a wet palette
• Using masking tape and masking mediums
• Holding a pen or a brush for different effects
• Priming and sealing a canvas - Making your own "liquid white" primer
• Priming other objects
• Thinning and thickening paints
• Making your own paint washes
• Specialised application methods for paints and pigments: water marbelling, pearlescense, freckles, and more
• Applying gold leaf

Pencil, print, paper

• Making a moldable eraser
• Creating a caligraphy pen from leftover cans
• How to linocut
• Bookbinding

Sculpting, toys, miniatures

• How to hold and dry your figures
• Making Papermache
• Making your own airdrying clay
• Making your own ”sprue goo” and plastic glue
• Plastic – how and when to use it
• Silicone molds

Fabric and fibres

• Bleach and dye
• Cleaning and maintaining fabrics