Muse amuse

Does painting different colours of fur need separate techniques? With any fur, you need to observe closely and identify its many colours and tones to make your painting accurate. A white dog is never

I took a slightly different approach to this pet portrait than I would normally do. Rather than looking for a ‘story’ within the image, I decided to just concentrate on the beauty and character of the

Painting wildlife is beset with difficulties not often experienced with other genres. This style of painting can be divided into many categories. One of the problems of painting wildlife is that anima

Any painter who has tackled the challenge of capturing wildlife will know it presents one obstacle more significant than any other: movement. Before the development of photography, this challenge was

ACRYLIC ARTIST JIM MUSIL rediscovered a love of painting twenty years after graduating from the University of Minnesota. Having starting as a hobby painter, he is now a successful full-time artist who

AS SOMEONE WHO SPECIALISES in coloured pencil pet portraits, I’m very familiar with layering fur and capturing texture, but this time I wanted to explore smoother surfaces, bolder shapes and underwate