Best Free Online Painting Demonstrations
There are a lot of online painting tutorials. A lot. One could easily spend hours watching them and forget to paint at all. But ever since much of the world is in lock down due to the Corona virus we …
How to Paint an Eye in Pastel
So often people ask how to paint this or that. So often you find tutorials about how to paint something specific. You might have noticed (or not) that on my blog there are no ‘how to paint x’ posts at …
Create Fine Art prints from your Paintings
Creating prints from your art work is a great way to open up your sales. But once you decided to go for it, an avalanche of options appear and you might well give up before you got started.Printing YourselfI have …
A Place for Everything Pastel
To blend or not to blend? To fix or not to fix? Do I need to buy those expensive pastels? Where do I start? Are these chalks from the newsagent’s any good? How do I move on from my silly …
Vlog: Can I Use a Watercolour Brush for Oil Painting?
Pop into any art supplies store and you will see an inviting wall of brushes. There are watercolour brushes, brushes for acrylic paint and brushes for oil paints. But as an oil painter, do you have to stick to your …
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Which Pastel Paper Suits Me Best?
When it comes to sanded pastel papers there is a lot of choice and variety. Any beginning pastel painters would be forgiven for not knowing where to start. But sanded pastel papers are really the best papers for anyone wanting …
Vlog: How to Mix Colour on your Canvas
One thing I have learned from working with pastel for so many years, is how to mix your colours on your painting. So many painters struggle to mix the right colours on their palette. Often this made even more difficult …
Best Flower Paintings
Flower painting has been a strong favourite for artists and art lovers for centuries but they really became a subject in itself in the early 17th century. Dutch and Flemish artists took the art of floral painting to a whole …
Vlog: 6 Tips for Painting Portraits from Photos
Many of us paint portraits from photos. We can’t afford to hire a model, we don’t always have commissions, a model makes us feel awkward, or maybe we just prefer to work from photos. But working from photos has its …
A Review of Rublev Oils
Rublev oils are a unique paint in that they set out to only use historic pigments and provide us with the paints of the old masters. A noble aim perhaps. These paints are professional premium paints and definitely not for …