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How to Paint English Country Watercolour Landscapes

Watercolour artist Steve Hall provides two step-by-step demonstrations revealing the approach he uses for his atmospheric paintings of English landscapes

How to Paint From Photographs

Lynda Poole uses modified contour drawing to paint a contemporary street scene

How to use Batik for Ancient Symbols

Annabel Carey describes how she used batik for a series of works capturing the weatherworn textures and colours of prehistoric standing stones

Painting shadows in watercolour

Arnold Lowrey explores the effects that shadows have on a painting. Looking at how to paint the form, direction, tonal values, size and colour of shadows in your pictures.

How to Paint Cows in Watercolour

Learn how to paint in a way that captures the character - as well as the form - of an animal with Andrew Boult

How to draw a portrait

Tom Robb suggests experimenting with different ways of capturing a sitter's likeness creating a portrait painting.