Top tips
Top tips
Why pattern is important by Bob Brandt
Capture your viewers' attention by introducing pattern when designing your paintings, as Bob Brandt explains
The appeal of bare branches by Andrew Wright
Andrew Wright enjoys sketching and painting the complex silhouettes and unexpected colours of trees in winter.
A Vision of Segovia – Spain - an oil painting demonstration by Alan Bickley
Paint a Spanish scene in oils with Alan Bickley.
Ten top tips for painting wildlife in acrylics
Artist Daniel Taylor provides his top tips for painting wildlife in acrylics
Drawing and Painting Plants with Muriel Rose
Muriel Rose describes the pleasures in observing and painting the variety of plants to be found in both town and countryside.
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