Tutorials, videos, tips & techniques
Learn techniques from professional artists, follow tutorials, videos, and more.

- Categories:
- Ambassadors
- Aquabord
- Tips & techniques
- Videos
- Watercolor
Sunflower watercolor tutorial on Aquabord
Watch this fun and easy tutorial by Karen Vernon and make a sunflower on Aquabord.

- Categories:
- Claybord
- Egg tempera
- Featured artists
Featured artist: Caroline Adams
Caroline Adams, an egg tempera artist, discovered Claybord for her abstract landscape artwork. Inspired by the many places she has lived, her work draws from the colors, shapes, and lines of each place.

- Categories:
- Gessobord Shadow Box
- Tips & techniques
Gessobord Shadow Box: Project ideas
The Gessobord Art Shadow Box has a 2" deep cradle frame with the Gessobord surface on the inside instead of the outside. Perfect for dioramas, installations, and three-dimensional painting.

- Categories:
- Claybord Box Kit
- Tips & techniques
Claybord Box Kit: Project ideas
Decorate the top with water-based paints, inks, collage, photo-transfer, graphic markers, metal leaf, or other decorative techniques.

- Categories:
- Claybord Art Tiles
- Tips & techniques
Claybord Art Tiles: Project ideas
The smooth clay surface is highly absorbent and perfect for paint, collage, ink, pencil, stamping, and anything else you can imagine.

- Categories:
- Floaterframes
- Product info.
Floaterframe instructions
Ampersand Floaterframes are the only do-it-yourself frame specifically designed for wood panels and can also be used for stretched canvas. Made with premium hardwood, Floaterframes are the perfect depth to protect your artwork. Everything you need to frame and hang your artwork is included.

- Categories:
- Ambassadors
- Floaterframes
- Videos
Floaterframe gallery wall
To help us showcase our Floaterframes, we enlisted the help of Havi our gallery dog, plus the talents of many amazing Ampersand Artist Ambassadors.

- Categories:
- Ambassadors
- Aquabord
- Tips & techniques
- Videos
- Watercolor
Flower bouquet watercolor tutorial on Aquabord
Watch this fun and easy tutorial by Karen Vernon and make a flower bouquet on Aquabord.

- Categories:
- Step-by-step tutorials
- Tips & techniques
How to connect cradled panels
If you are working with multiple Ampersand cradle panels, bolting together the panels is an inventive way to present your work.

- Categories:
- Product info.
- Unprimed Basswood
Top 10 reasons to paint on Ampersand Unprimed Basswood
Ampersand Unprimed Basswood is a smooth, uncoated panel that is free from plywood seams, knots, or troublesome raised fibers. We compiled our top ten reasons and advantages of painting on this surface.
Read more … Top 10 reasons to paint on Ampersand Unprimed Basswood

- Categories:
- Ambassadors
- Aquabord
- Featured artists
- Videos
- Watercolor
Featured artist: Karen Vernon
We caught up with Ampersand Artist Ambassador Karen Vernon, a loyal Aquabord user, to find out about how she communicates through her watercolors.

- Categories:
- Claybord
- Egg tempera
- Tips & techniques
Three recipes for egg tempera
Here are three recipes for egg tempera but there are many more. If grinding the dry pigments is not something you want to try right away, substitute gouache for the "pigment paste" in each of these recipes.

- Categories:
- Product info.
- Unprimed Basswood
Unprimed Basswood overview
Unprimed Basswood is handcrafted using a sturdy, non-flexible 4mm basswood top, sanded perfectly smooth and ready to seal and prime with the ground of your choice. Its minimal wood grain is straight and has a fine, even texture and a moderate natural luster.

Tips for using Scratchbord
General tips and techniques on transferring images, adding color, and sealing and framing Ampersand Scratchbord

Oil on Gessobord
Gessobord’s acrylic gesso coating has just the right level of absorbency allowing you to blend oil colors and maintain their slower drying time.

Acrylic on Gessobord
Gessobord is the perfect choice for acrylic painting. Forget about the time-consuming process of applying and sanding several applications of gesso; Gessobord is ready to use, no preparation necessary.