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Most of my students that attend my weekly art classes are learning watercolour. It is one of the most difficult mediums to learn. I know it took me a long time before I would even let anyone see what I … Continue reading Watercolour – Real time Roses – Beginners Watercolour Video
Have you ever tried using graphite sticks for drawing? Well it’s great! I wanted to produce some simple graphite portraits for a local art event that I am participating in, but when thinking about the framing costs so I could … Continue reading It’s easy in graphite!
I love trying new media and subject matter, and this painting falls into both of these categories. Whilst I tried oil paints some time ago, it was not a medium that was very practical when painting at home with limited … Continue reading New Artwork – Wildlife in Oils
Artists coloured pencils have come a long way over recent years. Lightfastness has up until recent years always been a real problem when creating fine art with the medium, but these days with brands such as Caran d’Ache Luminance, and … Continue reading Coloured Pencil Podcast & Pencil Topics
Together is another of my white on black series of paintings using coloured pencils. I have used the same brands of pencils as I used for both ‘Little Lottie’ & ‘Nellie’ paintings which you can see on my website. White on … Continue reading New Artwork – Coloured Pencil Wildlife Art
Polished Pebbles is another piece of work that I have completed using my Icarus heated painting board. Using wax based media on this board is wonderful. Blending with a pure wax stick once you have built up the level of pigment you want, makes the colours really vibrant, and the stick glides over the pigment with ease. I have found very quickly that only certain brands of coloured pencils work using this method. Oil based coloured pencils don’t react to the heat as wax pencils do, so I use my oil based pencils to apply any details off heat, and for my … Continue reading Polished Pebbles
At the beginning of this year I started running a small watercolour class for beginners. Most of my students are accomplished artists in other mediums and I have known many of them for a long time. It was a marvellous feeling to be asked by them to start running some watercolour tuition, and so far I’m enjoying every minute. As part of the class, I started making video tutorials and putting them on my website. I had the immediate problem that I was limited on file size and therefore ended up opening up my YouTube channel and linking the videos to my … Continue reading Art Tips, Techniques & Tutorials on YouTube
Nellie is another piece of work using white coloured pencils on black paper. After producing my other piece of work entitled Little Lottie I wanted to explore a different subject matter which would require different methods applying the pencil to portray … Continue reading Nellie in white coloured pencil
I’m absolutely loving creating white images at the moment, and this is a first for me in that it’s my first portrait on black paper. This is a painting of a friend’s daughter called Lottie. When I saw the photograph, … Continue reading Little Lottie
New Experimental Work In Progress The last two months have been exceptionally busy. Participating in the local Arts In Redditch Pop Up Gallery, and opening my studio at the same time was a little hectic to say the least. But … Continue reading Icarus Painting Board & Wax Based Media
