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Still life in the garden by John Patchett

John Patchett shows how to use still life subjects in garden settings to provide key elements pastel compositions.

Painting against the light with Winston Oh

A contre-jour composition of subjects in sunlight offers many advantages… stronger tonal contrast, greater colour variation – and useful shadows, says Winston Oh

Top tips

Painting coral seas in pastel with Graham Painter

Graham Painter describes the methods he has developed of painting in pastels to create luminescence and build compositions using blocks of colour.

Pastel Top tips

How to paint still lifes with flowers

Stanford Gibbons uses pastel to describe colour and composition.

Pastel In conversation

Watercolour painting with James Fletcher Watson

The author encourages the student to examine trees more closely in order to use them successfully in painting compositions

Nature Trees In conversation

How to create texture and contrast with acrylic paints

Paint a still-life composition using acrylic paints

Acrylic Nature Flowers How to... tutorials

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