Zak Smith uses paint paper technical details brushes acrylic painting acrylic paint technique pens
(or "It's Called Paint and It Comes In Little Tubes")
This entry consists entirely of technical details about how I paint my paintings. It is dull. I am not posting it because I think you all want to hear about it, but because I get lots of e-mails and art reviews wondering about the mysterious alchemical processes I use to create my work and I am creating this page so that some of these lost souls might find it. (Thus all the google fodder up top).
So, the paintings:
the paintings are painted with acrylic paint. the black stuff is acrylic paint. the grey stuff is acrylic paint. the other colors are acrylic paint. the silver and gold stuff, if there is any, is metallic ink (gel rollers).
the process is as follows: I take a very small paint brush with wet paint on it, put it on the paper, and move my hand around. There is no magic or machinery involved and it is done freehand. Sometimes I look at a real thing or person and paint it, sometimes its a picture i took, and sometimes i just make it up. How to tell? If its a picture with a title like "Lisa" then probably that's from real life, if it's, say, a zebra-man with two samurai next to it, then that's made up.
"What kind of paint?" The cheapest kind they have at whatever store I am at.
"What kind of paper?" I never buy paper. I usually just find it. I use anything with a slick surface that doesn't absorb paint, and is think enough that the acrylic won't warp it. I am not picky. The backs of posters or pieces of foam-core are probably the easiest thing for most people to find.
Ok, the drawings:
The drawings are generally made with black ink. in whatever pen is closest. usually a pigma micron or a uniball micro. if it has a lot of really careful hatching then it's probably a pigma micron 005. again, freehand, again, no magic.
what kind of paper? whatever paper is around.
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Zak Smith draws drawing paints paint painting technique uses paper plastic Zak Smith uses paint paper technical details brushes acrylic painting acrylic paint technique pens pencils puppies guppies painter paints zach Smith zachary smith zack smith zac smith paints with uses
(or "It's Called Paint and It Comes In Little Tubes")
This entry consists entirely of technical details about how I paint my paintings. It is dull. I am not posting it because I think you all want to hear about it, but because I get lots of e-mails and art reviews wondering about the mysterious alchemical processes I use to create my work and I am creating this page so that some of these lost souls might find it. (Thus all the google fodder up top).
So, the paintings:
the paintings are painted with acrylic paint. the black stuff is acrylic paint. the grey stuff is acrylic paint. the other colors are acrylic paint. the silver and gold stuff, if there is any, is metallic ink (gel rollers).
the process is as follows: I take a very small paint brush with wet paint on it, put it on the paper, and move my hand around. There is no magic or machinery involved and it is done freehand. Sometimes I look at a real thing or person and paint it, sometimes its a picture i took, and sometimes i just make it up. How to tell? If its a picture with a title like "Lisa" then probably that's from real life, if it's, say, a zebra-man with two samurai next to it, then that's made up.
"What kind of paint?" The cheapest kind they have at whatever store I am at.
"What kind of paper?" I never buy paper. I usually just find it. I use anything with a slick surface that doesn't absorb paint, and is think enough that the acrylic won't warp it. I am not picky. The backs of posters or pieces of foam-core are probably the easiest thing for most people to find.
Ok, the drawings:
The drawings are generally made with black ink. in whatever pen is closest. usually a pigma micron or a uniball micro. if it has a lot of really careful hatching then it's probably a pigma micron 005. again, freehand, again, no magic.
what kind of paper? whatever paper is around.
ok
Zak Smith draws drawing paints paint painting technique uses paper plastic Zak Smith uses paint paper technical details brushes acrylic painting acrylic paint technique pens pencils puppies guppies painter paints zach Smith zachary smith zack smith zac smith paints with uses