TUTORIAL – Composition of a painting, the focal point
This newsletter article relies on my own recent experiences of being tutored, listening to artist friends, attending workshops, trialing ideas, reading books and art magazines and lots of practice of the things I get wrong or don’t do well! Please note I seldom get this…
TIPS – Sketchbook tips from Linda Purdy
Carry a sketchbook and mini kit everywhere and you will never have any wasted minutes again. Keep a sketchbook journal of your travels and holidays with dates and details noted alongside. There’s no better way to store those memories. The best brush in my collection…
TUTORIAL – Sue Downie on Composition
One piece of advice I have found very useful is to plan the tonal structure of the painting before you start to paint. So think about what you are about to paint, squint at it and make a three value notan. The concept and word…
TUTORIAL – Painting Snowdrops
One of the delightful sights of the cold January days is delicate white blooms of snowdrops drifting across verges and through churchyards. No wonder we have the urge to pick up our paintbrushes when we see them. The fragility of these pristine white blossoms…
TIPS – Texture in watercolour
How to create texture with watercolour There are many, many ways to create texture with watercolour, and I have folders full of experiments. Many years ago, I was first attracted to creating texture after seeing the work of one of my watercolour heroes, Tessa Shedley…
TUTORIAL – Chris Lockwood on Seascapes
Seascape – Surfers at Biarritz Materials list Paper: Saunders Waterford High White NOT 300lb Watercolour Paper, masking fluid or white acrylic ink, yellow oil pastel or wax crayon for texture. Paints: Windsor & Newton. Raw Sienna, Light Red, Cobalt Turquoise Light, Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine Violet,…
A sideways look at the magic of watercolour
Thoughts of a striving painter by Alan Noyes Whatever jottings and ramblings I put down here can either be attributed to ideas and advice I have gleaned over time from numerous books in my studio, (How to Paint like Turner by Tate Publishing in particular),…