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Painting
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Working colour onto canvas or paper in layers. Each medium behaves differently as it dries, which shapes how you use it.
This weekendTime to first win
A few hoursA session
Mostly indoorsWhere
Step 1: Get acrylics, three brushes and a couple of canvases.
Is it you?
What you need
4 thingsThe honest floor, taking the cheapest option in each$67
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The path
15 questsASetting up1 thing to sort, in any order$57
BThen the quests
- Cover a whole canvas in one sitting
- Paint a value study of one object in grey
- Mix a colour to match something in front of you
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Guides3
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What to buy3
Best Beginner Acrylic Paint Set 2026: Liquitex BASICS and Where to StartAcrylics are the best paint to start with: fast-drying, water-cleanup, and forgiving, but the cheapest craft-store paints are so thin and chalky they'll put you off. The fix is student-grade acrylics with real pigment, which cost barely more. Here are three sets, from the beginner standard to a pro-quality upgrade.Best Canvas for Painting (2026): Cotton, Linen, and What Primed Really MeansAlmost every cheap canvas says pre-primed, and almost every painter adds more primer anyway. Factory gesso is applied thinly to keep costs down, so paint sinks into the weave, colours dry dull and you use two or three times as much of an expensive tube as you needed to.Best Easel for Beginners (2026): Tabletop, H-Frame or NeitherAn easel is the piece of painting equipment people buy first and need last. Watercolour is usually painted flat or at a shallow angle; small acrylic and oil studies work fine propped against a stack of books. What an easel really buys you is the ability to stand back, see the whole picture at once, and work at a size your table cannot hold.
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