Focus on butterflies

When possible, I paint with the object in front of me. It is important to be able to feel it, look at the texture and observe the way light hits form. This butterfly had died with its wings downwards,

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

I’VE COME FROM A VERY TECHNICAL BACKGROUND. When I started getting busier and time spent on artwork became much more precious, I began looking for ways to streamline the process without losing the pre

MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE JUST RETURNED HOME after spending an idyllic five weeks in the south of France. I am an artist and illustrator based in Teignmouth, south Devon, where my husband and I run our ow

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

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