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A guide to watercolour painting for beginners
Learn how to choose, use and look after your watercolour painting equipment plus simple exercises showing various watercolour techniques to help you get started.
Artists' advice for painting with watercolour
Chris Medcalf offers valuable advice for working with watercolour, including how to mix the perfect green for your next painting.
Oil Painting: Tubing up your own Munsell scale neutral greys
Artist, Collette Hughes, shares why she pre-mixes and tubes her own range of neutral grey oil paints.
How to use metallic and iridescent colours
Robert Dutton experiments with metallic and iridescent colours in pastel and acrylic inks and illustrates how they can enhance your potential for creative expression.
Watercolour pencil techniques for landscapes
Irina Garmashova shows various techniques for painting landscapes using watercolour pencils.
How to achieve texture using watercolour paint
Hazel Soan shows how to produce texture in your watercolour paintings.