Top tips
Top tips
How to Paint Raindrops on a Leaf in Watercolour
Be inspired by the simple effect of raindrops on a leaf. Sarah Wood demonstrates step by step the painting of such detail using just four watercolours and white gouache.
Expressive Acrylic Landscapes
Using the fast-drying properties of acrylics to his advantage, Robert Dutton explains how to select just the right amount of information to add expression to your paintings when working directly from the landscape
Tony Paul's Colour Workshop
Tony Paul reviews the health and safety aspects of paints and painting in the final part of a ten-part series on colour from 1994. This article also includes a free colour chart.
Qualities of the watercolour medium by Rowland Hilder Part 1
Rowland Hilder writes on the meaning of tone and on seeing the subject in terms of simple tone areas, in the first of three articles written for The Artist in 1965.
How to draw fur with coloured pencils
Gayle Mason covers the techniques and materials needed for drawing animals in coloured pencil. Gayle shows how to draw fur step-by-step.
How to paint gardens in gouache
Find out about the characteristics of gouache and the importance of following good working practice, for painting gardens. Learn to paint more confidently with advice from Lorna Gasperi