Summer skies

Awash is a fundamental watercolour technique and so it makes sense to start these twelve articles by delving into their beauty with a look at how they are created and interact with one another to buil

Awash is a fundamental watercolour technique and so it makes sense to start these twelve articles by delving into their beauty with a look at how they are created and interact with one another to buil

On a cold winter’s day, camera in hand, I caught sight of this flock of geese. The positioning of one against the other was perfect. A second later, it could have been quite different, as nothing livi

When painting from a reference photo, it’s fair to say that composition is already there for you. But when we paint in the great outdoors, it suddenly becomes very difficult. You have a wide periphera

You will learn How to add texture to a pastel painting Using mark-making effectively for light and water Working with wet and dry pastel layers When I was asked to create a demo that included a variat

For my amaryllis project, I will paint from the reference photo (right), I found on Pixabay. I may incorporate other elements that are not even there, for example, I thought salt might be a great effe