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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

When most of us think of painting, we picture a brush sweeping across canvas or paper. Brushes are indispensable, but they are just the beginning. A whole world of alternative tools can expand your cr

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

I first explored this subject about five years ago, under the title ‘It’s a bug’s life’. I now want to revisit the subject primarily because I have experimented further and wish to share some of my di

THIS STEP-BY-STEP LOOKS AT RECESSION, along with the creative use of opaque White Gouache, which is usually applied to the dry surface to reinstate or create highlights. However, here it works beautif