New Artist - 2016__

Animals in pastel pencil Grey Wolf: a step-by-step guide Follow Colin’s stages to give your wolf a realistic appearance. A flat ...

Try some simple exercises to help your sketching describe the width, length and direction of shapes. Life drawing exercises Circ ...

Placed and surrounded accurately, the centre line can give drawings a sense of weight and volume. Life drawing exercises The cen ...

Millie Marotta Millie in her West Wales studio. Millie‘s sketches are a lot more detailed than most! She prefers to keep the nat ...

surface doesn’t feel right, the pen doesn’t glide across it so well. You do have to bear in mind that my idea of a rough sketch ...

(^1) Paint You can buy a kit stocked with all the colours you need. But if you’re keen to start mixing colours, buy 200ml tubes ...

(^9) Palette knife To create thick layers of paint with an impasto texture, a palette knife is ideal. It‘s also a useful tool fo ...

Neil Pinkett takes you through the stages of creating this painting, explaining his palette knife method. Photography: Newlyn Sc ...

Oils with a palette knife ARTWORK NEWLYN HARBOUR The texture of paint naturally forms to create surface interest, which Neil exp ...

Harbour Life: a step-by-step guide Draw the scene with oil paints, then use a palette knife to create depth and energy. I apply ...

More mid tone is brought back into the painting here with brown-pink which ties the boat, quay and horizon together with differi ...

Harbour Life: a step-by-step guide Define the boat through its relationship with the forms and spaces around it. The oil colours ...

It is important that I don‘t get bogged down in describing everything with too much detail. Some artistic licence can be useful ...

Experiment with these methods to bring realism, dimension and texture to your paintings. Oil & acrylic know-how T here are m ...

Spattering First, cover any area that you don’t want to spatter with a sheet of paper. Load your brush with thinned paint and ta ...

MATERIALS OTitanium White OCadmium Lemon Yellow OCadmium Yellow Light OCadmium Orange OYellow Ochre OCadmium Red Lig ...

ARTWORK: HYDRANGEAS, TAKEN FROM THE ART OF PAINTING FLOWERS IN OIL & ACRYLIC, PUBL ISHED BY WALTER FOSTER ...

Hydrangeas: a step-by-step guide Think of your flowers as out of focus when you begin and sharper as you develop them. Think in ...

Paint each petal to suggest the character of the hydrangea No w I block in the middle values. I use Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine B ...

A novice at oil painting, 16-year-old Isabella says she hasn‘t developed any particular style or technique yet. This portrait is ...