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Original Painting – Pots and Pots of Colour

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Original Painting In Mixed Media I absolutely love my new original painting. Hope you love it too! I created this original artwork with indian ink and pastel on a lovely sanded paper. The initial underpainting was completed in a watercolour consistency of ink, followed by further layers of stronger pigment. My aim was to obtain the textures on not only the subject matter but the wall itself, so sanded paper was a perfect choice. The sanded paper I use is white Pastelmat. To touch is has a smooth velvet feel, so you are able to to use mediums for finer … Continue reading Original Painting – Pots and Pots of Colour

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Polished Pebbles

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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

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Art Tips, Techniques & Tutorials on YouTube

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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