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The considerations:- Edging - leave the edge of petals the [...]

The pertinent points of this painting: repetition of shape, vertical [...]

Watercolours are the perfect medium for painting snow. The subtleness [...]

On another walk through Raphael Park Romford, this time in [...]

The reasons I complete thumbnail sketches: a thumbnail sketch makes [...]

As with paintings of children, paintings of food has its [...]

Following a request from one of my learners regarding how [...]

This exercise not only involved using a worm’s eye view [...]

It is not a usual perspective for a portrait to [...]

Using pastels is great fun, a tactile messy medium. But [...]

Peeling paint presents a set of abstract shapes, rather similar [...]

Painting rusty objects in watercolours involves four particular techniques:- wet [...]

I had chosen three subjects, and three specific types of [...]

The above painting was one from the selection we painted [...]

This was the second of the workshops that I tutored [...]

We visited the park again today and found a very [...]

I am tutoring four workshops at Ardleigh House this summer. [...]

A change in the weather from our previous trip meant [...]

On the hottest day of the year to date, we [...]

Some pigments have some amazing qualities, and burnt umber is [...]