Expand your imagination

Where you live will shape your drawings, so I encourage you to bring your surroundings into your sketchpad. Whether it’s colours, patterns or drawing techniques! You may live in a place where you have

Learn to capture the beauty of marine life in watercolours with artist Julie Collins

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

If you’re used to working with cross stitch kits, you’ll be familiar with the concept of having everything you need ready to start stitching straight away. But when you’re following a counted chart, l

Spanning the 1920s to 1970s, Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape, at Firstsite in Colchester, examines the evolution of abstract art during periods of sweeping social and political

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