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    Paint for health

    Feb 18, 2022 6 minutes

    LEARNING OBJECTIVES

    ■ Always have your art kit available

    ■ Don’t over-complicate your work

    ■ Follow an easy painting process

    You will need

    ■ Canvas

    • 6x6in. (15x15cm) canvas, stretched over a 1.5cm deep wooden edge

    ■ Daler-Rowney System 3 Acrylic

    • Background: process cyan and titanium white

    • Butterfly: ultramarine and silver

    ■ Brushes

    • Daler-Rowney Bristlewhite B84 fan brush No. 2

    • Daler-Rowney System 3 filbert No. 8

    • Daler-Rowney System 3 Round No. 3/10

    ■ Miscellaneous

    • PVA glue or any similar high-tack crafting glue that dries clear

    • Flow improver

    Creative activities are an important part of any self-care tool kit and can be used to promote well-being. Anyone interested in exploring ways to use art as a stress-busting creative activity of choice would be well advised to consider acrylic painting. The jewel-bright paint colours, their forgiving flexibility as a medium, plus their ready availability for different budgets make acrylics a good option for dipping an experimentally creative toe

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