Top tips
Top tips
How to Paint Abstracts from Photographs with Tim Fisher
Tim Fisher shows how focusing on shape and colour can spark your imagination to paint something new.
How to use acrylics like oils with Paul Talbot-Greaves
Paul Talbot Greaves explains why acrylics are such a wonderfully versatile medium.
How to Paint Shadows with Paul Riley
Paul Riley offers advice on using shadows to good effect in your paintings
Top techniques for painting garden flowers in acrylics with Wendy Jelbert
Wendy Jelbert looks at how to create different textures using acrylic paints by painting garden plants.
How to Paint Skies in Watercolour with John Mitchell
In this extract from an article entitled Panoramic Skies, John Mitchell explains the relative merits of various media for painting skies.
How to Keep Your Watercolour Paintings Spontaneous
Keep your paintings fresh and lively with the help of some advice from Gerald Green