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Watercolour brushes: how to choose the right paint brush
Learn about the types of watercolour brushes, how to choose a paint brush, how to clean paint brushes and much more, in…


How to draw a red squirrel in coloured pencil
Follow Linda Drury as she demonstrates a red squirrel, step-by-step in coloured pencil.


How to paint a watercolour landscape: a step-by-step tutorial
Follow this step-by-step tutorial and learn how to paint a simple watercolour landscape, including advice on watercolour mixing.
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How to paint vibrant watercolour landscapes with Bettina Schroeder
Bettina Schroeder tells you how to brighten up a watercolour landscape, en plein air, when the weather changes from bright sunshine to dull and grey.
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How to paint farm buildings and reflections in pen and wash
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Discover the new Winsor & Newton Cadmium-Free Artists’ Oil Colour with Jenny Aitken
Jenny Aitken puts the new Winsor & Newton Cadmium-Free Artists’ Oil Colour to the test. Her conclusion? She can’t tell the difference – the colours are just as vibrant and buttery as those of the cadmium versions she’s used.

Discover the new Caran d’Ache Luminance 6901 Portrait Assortment with Liz Seward
Liz Seward is thrilled with the new Caran d’Ache Luminance 6901 Portrait Assortment of 20 colours as she uses them to demonstrate a portrait.

Derwent Lightfast 100-per-cent lightfast oil-based pencils
Award-winning artist Judith Selcuk specialises in coloured pencil fine art. Here she takes a look at the newly available colours in Derwent’s range of oil-based coloured pencils and demonstrates their painterly qualities with a painting of…
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