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SOMETIMES MAKING LIFE SIMPLER FOR YOURSELF and avoiding overthinking a process gets you further. In painting terms, using flat colours does exactly that and it may even prove to hold the key to more c

FEATURE ALICE HUMPHRYS Colour wash BC Design’s baths ...

TO MAKE 1. Our first job is to locate the centre of the dish. On some of these dishes a small central point can be seen; if so, mark it with a dot. If not, measure the width of the base, draw out a ci

This sunny landscape of oak trees in Chatsworth Park in Derbyshire is a wonderfully inspiring view, masses of Autumnal foliage back-lit by the warm sunshine. But how can we recreate that warmth with t

THIS PORTRAIT BEGAN LIFE as a pile of old magazines: pages full of colour, text and typography just waiting to be reimagined. I’ve always loved how collage can transform the ordinary into something co

FOR A SIMPLE YET SOPHISTICATED SCHEME, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THESE NATURAL SHADES