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Make a Tie-Dye Cake and Serve a Slice of the Hippest Summer Dessert

Make a cake that's totally twisted with color. Erin Gardner shows you how in this vibrant tutorial. View Content

How a Color Intensity Chart Can Help You Paint Realistic Watercolors

No one wants a dull painting, but don't underestimate the great power of mixing muted and dull colors. These seemingly boring tones will help your paintings reach a whole new... View Content

How to Paint Moody Watercolor Skies Perfect for Winter Scenes

Our sky isn't always blue. Watercolor instructor Kateri Ewing shows us how to paint the sky in realistic colors for hazy, rainy and snowy days. View Content

How to Test Watercolor Transparency in Your Paints

Explore the transparency levels of the paints in your watercolor palette and learn how the colors interact and react when overlaid. View Content

3 Ways to Add Color to Your Tunisian Crochet

Solid rows, mixed stripes, color-blocking, oh my! Adding new hues to your Tunisian crochet projects can give them an immediate upgrade. These three techniques are sure to color you happy.... View Content

Here's an Easy Way to Test Color Value in Watercolor Paints

Learn how much water to use with watercolor paints and gain more control over color value through this simple painting exercise. View Content

How to Paint Accurate Skin Tones in Watercolor

Whether you’re a new watercolorist or have been practicing for years, painting accurate skin tones in watercolor can be intimidating. Attaining lifelike and dimensional tones can be tricky — there’s... View Content

11 Hacks for Mixing Acrylic Paint Perfectly

Think you know all there is to know about mixing paint? We bet you'll learn something new from Jessie Oleson Moore. View Content

How You Can Make Millions of Colors With Just 3 Tubes of Paint

How well do you really know your colors? By learning how to combine and manipulate color starting with the basics, you will not only gain knowledge about color theory, but... View Content

Color Mixing 101: How to Mix Brown Paint in Acrylic

Why buy a tube of brown paint when you can mix it up yourself? While there's more than one way to mix brown paint, this easy method, which employs the... View Content

Shade Savvy: Tips for Rich Watercolor Greens

The color green is hard to master mixing. These three techniques well help you choose and create the right green watercolor. View Content

An Easy Method for Mixing Skin Tones with Acrylic Paint

This simple approach that uses primary colors requires a little practice, but with a little trial and error, you'll be creating skin tones like a pro! View Content

Hues, Tints, Tones and Shades: What's the Difference?

A lot of us use the terms hue, tint, tone and shade when referring to color, but did you know each of these terms has a very specific meaning? For... View Content