Know your paints

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 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

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

As a beginner many years ago, I was constantly disappointed with my first attempts at painting. I just couldn’t understand what the problem was. I thought I was following the instructions from either

As a beginner many years ago, I was constantly disappointed with my first attempts at painting. I just couldn’t understand what the problem was. I thought I was following the instructions from either