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Come into the garden by Paul Riley

Paul Riley reveals how he approaches garden subjects.

Paint Rosa in Water Mixable Oils with Paul Riley

Paint a portrait using water mixable oils with Paul Riley.

Top Tips for Painting Flowers with Paul Riley

How do you keep your colours clean, and what are the best mixes to achieve vitality and freshness in your flower paintings? Paul Riley’s advice will help you to avoid the muddy look.

How to Paint Shadows with Paul Riley

Paul Riley offers advice on using shadows to good effect in your paintings

How to paint bugs and botany in watercolour

Paul Riley shows how the symbiosis between flowers and the insects that visit them can make marvellous watercolour paintings, as he draws inspiration from Oriental artists.

Zen painting inspiration

Paul Riley is inspired by a philosophical story to paint The Happiness of The Fish.

Discover the value of monochrome painting

How to make monochrome landscapes with Paul Riley

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How to paint monochrome studies

Use monochrome to help understand the importance of tone in your portraits.

How to Paint an Abstract Landscape in Watercolour

Abstracts are about ideas and choices, says Paul Riley. In this extract demonstrates an abstract painting inspired by the landscape.

Tips and techniques for painting spring flowers in watercolour

Learn to paint spring flowers using watercolours with Paul Riley