Whether you want to learn a new skill, save money by making your own art or you need something else to do besides watching television, people are grabbing paint brushes and learning to paint. So how do you start? Purchase Affordable Supplies. When you're just starting out, there's no need to spend a ton of money on the most expensive acrylic paints and canvases or a fancy easel. Find a table you can dedicate to getting dirty and buy some acrylic paints (these tend to be cheap

Pricing your own artwork is one of the trickiest things any artist has to figure out. While there's no hard set rules for how to do this, I want to tell you 5 things that I considered when pricing my paintings. The 1st thing I considered were the cost of my materials: canvas, varnish, paint, wire and screw eyes. The wire and screw eyes are very cheap, almost negligeable. With paint, it's difficult to gauge the cost of it if you don't use a large fraction of the tube for that