Inspiring Creativity

How to draw an elephant

Love getting original and mixing up your media? In this video we show you how to create an elephant artwork using drawing and painting materials. 

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Hologram Slime

Your kids will love our hologram slime project. In this lesson, we show you a quick and easy recipe for creating a sparkling alternative to traditional green slime. We'v mixed Mont Marte Laser Glitter with household items to a create a fun hologram effect.

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How to Paint a Lionfish in H20 Water Mixable Oils

In this lesson we paint the beautiful, but dangerous, lionfish with H20 Water Mixable Oil Paint. You'll learn techniques such as using a pearl tint to create depth and translucence, as well as how to create interest through texture. We hope this inspires and equips you to paint your own masterpiece.

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How to Paint a Shire Horse Sculpture with Water Mixable Oil Paints

In this project we paint the Shire Horse we created with Mont Marte Polymer Clay. If you didn't see the first lesson you can watch it here: How to Sculpt a Shire Draught Horse. Today's lesson covers acrylic undercoating techniques and how to tonally blend a top coat using Mont Marte Water Mixable Oils. We also demonstrate a great technique for creating a realistic muddy ground for our horse to stand in.

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How to Paint Dancing Brolgas on a Vase with Ceramic Paint

In this lesson we use Ceramic Paint to transform an everyday vase into something quite special by decorating it with beautiful dancing Brolga birds.

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How to Paint an Intricate Tiger with Waterbrushes and Ink

In this lesson we create a stylised crouching tiger in watercolour paint using waterbrushes.  The intricate design is patterned in graphite pencil and then overlayered with Fine Tip Markers for a bold, contemporary look.  If you enjoy adult colouring or watercolours this lesson is perfect for you!

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How to Recreate a Cave Painting

In 1940 three French boys and their dog 'Robot" found a giant subterranean cave that was adorned with over six hundred beautiful cave paintings.  These paintings featured large animals that once inhabited the region.  In this lesson we recreate a few of these creatures onto a cave-textured canvas, using earth tone pigments as our medium.  The project is a lot of fun, a great talking piece, and ideal to create with children.

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How to Gild Fruit Sculptures With Designer Leaf

In this Lesson Joe sculpts a pear, an apple and a banana with air drying clay, and then gilds them with Mont Marte Designer Leaf.  The lesson is quite easy, a lot of fun, and the fruit comes out looking fantastic and would brighten up any room! 

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How to Paint a Triceratops Sculpture (Part 2)

In this lesson Joe paints a Triceratops sculpture he created from Mont Marte Polymer Clay.  He uses acrylic paint and Mont Marte's new H2O Water Mixable Oils to bring his prehistoric creation to life.

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How to use Fine Tip Markers for adult colour sketching

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How to Scrap Book a Valentine's Day Card

This is just a super quick little clip showing how a Valentine's Day card can easily be created using a little bit of paint and elements from the Mont Marte 'Scrap Booke'r range.

How to Scrapbook

In this lesson Joe creates 3 scrapbooking projects. The first is a place holder canvas, the second a traditional style photo embellishment and the third, the hard cover of an art journal gets an exciting face lift!  All of the scrapbooking elements used are from the Mont Marte Scrapbooker range.  There are many cool ideas and techniques in this lesson.  We hope you enjoy it and can use some of the ideas with your art.

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Demo - Scrap Booker Range Introduction

This is an Introduction to the Mont Marte Scrap Booker Range.

How to paint a Spacecraft Sci-Fi Painting

In this mixed media painting Joe creates a Fictitious Sci - Fi scene featuring Space Craft re-energizing with pyramids. There is lots of really cool techniques in here, and even if you don't re create the project there is bound to be something of use in here for you. So let's get into it!

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How to paint 3 Painted Rock Owls

In this fun kids lesson Joe paints 3 Owls on to rock.  One is quite basic and could be created by children 5 years and up.  The second is a folk style Owl and the third Owl has quite a realistic paint scheme.  They are quite easy alot of fun and would make for a great present.  So lets get into it.

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How to gild a frame

In this little Mini Lesson Joe shows how easy it is to Gild a frame with Gold and Silver Foil Leafing.

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How to paint an Allosarus sculpture. Part 2.

In this part 2 of the Allosarus lesson, Joe paints a realistic livery over the Allosarus sculpture he created a few lessons back.  Joe shows you how you can suggest great effects with a few of his techniques and the finished result looks very realistic and quite convincing and if you follow the steps it's not that hard.  We hope you enjoy it.

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How to put birds on the map

In this fun lesson Joe paints 3 birds wearing hats onto maps from an old atlas that have been adhered to canvas panels. There's a Robin wearing a Bowler hat an Eagle wearing a Top hat and a kookaburra wearing an Akuburra.  It's painted with Acrylic paint, is quite easy and the end result looks great.  So grab your Mont Mart Art materials and let's get into it! 

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How To Paint A Fox Quilt Cover With Fabric Paint

Would you like to have a beautiful Fox sleeping an the end of your bed?  Well if that sounds pretty cool you have to have a look at this lesson.  Because in this lesson Joe paints a beautiful Fox with Mont Marte Fabric Paint onto a quilt cover and shows you how you can create your own.  The end product looks great!

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How To Make A 3D Papercraft Scene

In this fun lesson we create a framed 3D scene with paper.  This is a great project to do with kids and once finished makes for a really good interior design piece or..... you could do what i did, and make a cute little stop motion clip.  Hope you enjoy the video :)   

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How To Paint Mixed Media Gold Birds

Create these 2 beautiful crested shrike birds amongst the gold foiling and rich crimson branches.  Learn various techniques to make this yourself. This is a wonderfully fun lesson to do and the end result is breath taking.

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How to make a Mothers Day Gifts Inspired From The Heart

Touch Mums heart this year with this crafty and unique lesson to show her how much she means to you!  The best gift dwells from the heart sometimes you have to be a little creative.  Come and join Mont Marte Joe for this 2014 Mothers Day Lesson.

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How To Paint a Peacock Feather

Join Mont Marte Joe for this Feathery Fun Lesson on how to emulate a Peacock Feather using Silver Leaf and a Rigger Brush to create this beautiful Retro-Inspired Lifestyle Art Piece!Come on and join in, lets get irridescent, fun and feathery!  

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How To Paint A Goldfish

This lesson is about learning how to paint a beautiful goldfish, using acrylic glazing techniques to capture  translucency, and a little gold leaf to embelish the details of such a delightful sea creature.  So join Mont Marte Joe for this underwater artists journey.

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