Discover the story behind the groundbreaking Soft Body Acrylic.
Mariia K.
Hello, my name is Maria. I’m from Ukraine, but currently live in Poland. Art is my life’s work, I’ve been doing it for as long as I can remember. I work in a variety of mediums, but at the moment my favorite mediums are a simple permanent marker, oil pastels and egg tempera.
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Painting lessons include teaching the technique but also we will pay a lot of attention to finding your way how to create a painting that you want to.
Tutor for adults
Tutor for children
Work with almost all techniques and types of paints. Personally prefer figurative painting but enjoy working with abstract art as well.
In the lessons, we would work on some knowledge about colors, composition, and styles.
Tutor for adults
Tutor for children
With the youngest students, we learn how to create simple and basic forms, with older students, depending on their age, we start learning perspective, anatomy, and other related knowledge needed to feel free in drawings.
Tutor for adults
Tutor for children
Work with almost all techniques and types of paints. Personally prefer figurative painting but enjoy working with abstract art as well.
In the lessons, we would work on some knowledge about colors, composition, and styles.
Tutor for adults
Tutor for children
Oil painting lessons include teaching the technique but also we will pay a lot of attention to finding your way how to create a painting that you want to.
Tutor for adults
Tutor for children
Painting lessons include teaching the technique but also we will pay a lot of attention to finding your way how to create a painting that you want to.
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I have 7 years of teaching experience, including teaching children from 4 years old and adults. In my classes, students learn not only how to draw and use materials, but also composition, art history, and academic drawing. Depending on what the student needs, I select the best individual program for them.
I studied at different art schools and academies for 10 years and I can say for sure that you don’t have to spend 10 years to become an artist.
Book a trial lesson where I’d love to listen to your wishes, goals, and previous experience. After that, you’ll get an individual program to reach your goals.
Education:
National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture , Master’s Degree, 2021
18-25
Experience:
more than 5 years
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Misting/Fogging
Sometimes the end product can appear foggy or misty in patches of the substrate. This is caused by the spray area or paints being too cold before you started to paint. The spray area and the spray paint must be at least room temperature (unless specified within the paint technical datasheets). Should this happen you will need to sand, primer and paint once more.
A Ground coat is a primer, the first layer of paint you lay to firstly barrier the existing substrate, also to provide a perfect surface for your paint to stick to.
A Drop coat or mist coat is a very fine coat of base coat paint you apply to the Ground coat before you fully lay your base coat. As soon as the paint starts to turn dry, it will become tacky, giving your base coat the perfect substrate to stick to.
A Basecoat is a coloured paint you add to your surface, the primary colour if you will.
A Topcoat is a lacquer coat or a clear coat. If you are spraying pearl paint, sometimes you will have a translucent pearl coat before you apply the final topcoat.
Tiger Stripes
Tiger stripes are horizontal or vertical lines within the finished spray job. These lines are caused by not overlapping your passes with the spray can. Ideally, you need to overlap the passes by around 50% and across the stripes to get an even finish i.e. horizontally first and then finish off with the second coat vertically.
Another common misconception is that when you have cracked/chipped faded clear coat, it can be fixed by using sand prime/paint and a topcoat. Although this is possible and the coat may last for up to a year if not always left indirect light, ideally the best solution is to strip the paint pack to primer and start again.
The reason the topcoat has been damaged is normally down to the UV in sunlight. The UV’s will go all the way down to the primer and infect all substrates. Chances are this will just happen again if not painted accordingly. The best final solution is applying a generous top coat lacquer to provide as much protection from the Sun’s UV’s as possible.
Spray paints can give me a finish as good as a gun
This is not strictly true as there are two main factors. Yes, it’s possible to get a finish as good with a spray can as a gun if the end-user is technically proficient with an aerosol can. It’s always best to have your substrate standing up and then lay it down flat once you have laid your coats on.
As a spray can has the paint in the base of the can, it’s held by gravity and propelled up through the nozzle with the gas pressure in the can. However, if you turn the can on the side or upside down, all you will eventually get is gas with no paint. The second factor is the quality of the can and the paint. To have a good finish, you require a good quality paint relevant to what you are painting, and the cans distribution method is also important. If you spray too slowly, then the paint will drip down the can rather than spraying out onto your substance, which can potentially give you a host of issues.
