Top tips
Top tips
Experiment in colour-mixing with Leonard Willcock
Leonard Willcock takes a look at the great watercolourists to see how they achieve the subtlety of their colours - and gives ideas for colour mixes
How to paint rivers with Tim Havers
Tim Havers explains what to look for when painting bodies of water and illustrates his points with some of his own paintings.
Seeing patterns with Hazel Soan
Hazel Soan begins a new three-part series on how to hone your artistic vision. This month she focuses on identifying pattern in your subject matter
How to tackle the problems with scale and proportion with Ray Campbell Smith
Ray Campbell Smith tackles the problems of scale and proportion.
How to Draw Animal Feet with Ruth Buchanan
Ruth Buchanan describes the main feet forms found in animals and shows you how to draw them correctly in the fourth of her ten-part series on how to draw and paint animals.
Scraperboard drawing by Kenneth B Hunter
Kenneth Hunter takes the reader through the first steps in the production of a scraperboard drawing.