Figures

Medium
- Acrylic
- Acrylic ink
- Airbrush
- Alkyd
- Brush pen
- Charcoal
- Collage
- Coloured pencil
- Digital
- Drawing
- Egg tempera
- Encaustic
- Gouache
- Graphite
- Ink
- Markers
- Mixed media
- Oil
- Oil pastel
- Oil sticks/bars
- Pastel
- Pastel pencil
- Pen & ink
- Pen & wash
- Pencil
- Printmaking
- Scratchboard
- Silk painting
- Spray paints
- Watercolour
- Water-soluble coloured pencil
- Water-soluble oil
Techniques
- Airbrush
- Alla prima
- Cross-hatching
- En plein air
- Etching
- Fat over lean
- Glaze
- Hatching
- Impasto
- Lino printing
- Lithography
- Loose
- Palette knife
- Scumble
- Sfumato
- Wet in wet
- Wet on dry
Subject matter
- Animals
- Autumn
- Birds
- Boats & Harbours
- Botanical
- Buildings
- Cities
- Figures
- Flowers
- Interiors
- Landscape
- Portraits
- Seascape
- Self portrait
- Spring
- Still life
- Summer
- The nude
- Townscape/urban
- Transport
- Trees
- Winter
Painting style
- Abstract
- Academic
- Chinese brush painting
- Expressive
- Figurative
- Genre
- Gestural
- Hyperrealism
- Illustration
- Impressionist
- Loose
- Miniature
- Monochromatic
- Narrative
- Oriental
- Photorealism
- Realism
- Representational
- Trompe l'oeil
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Paint groups of people in oil with Rob Wareing

Rob Wareing paints a musical trio in oil paint. Demonstrating how to capture people in group situations in your paintings.

Sketchbook People by Albany Wiseman

Tell a Compelling Story by Steve Griggs

Painting the figure - a personal approach by Ken Howard

How to Paint a Panoramic Seascape in Watercolour with Dermot Brennan

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Art Relief with Tom Cringle - Stick People part three

Tom explains how to draw people in a cartoon strip

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