One of the most difficult things about colour at the beginning is being able to see colour as value. …
Why Understanding Colour Frees You To Paint How You Like
When I teach colour, I teach it through a combination of modelling factors and showing people how to …
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Why Limit Your Palette?
Be careful of bold statements made by apparent experts. So much of art talk is people repeating …
How I use Underpainting to Influence the Final Painting
Now that I’m full time at this and painting a lot more, I have more opportunity to try things out …
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How to Choose the Right Pigments
How do you know which tube pigments you need to mix a colour you want? It's bewildering. There …
Why This Painting is Wrong
"Why just copy a photo?" "That's not art, it's just copying." We've all seen comments like …
How to balance the light between your painting and your subject
This is something I don't see talked about much, if at all actually, but it can save you untold …
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How Many Tubes of Paint Do You Really Need?
I know, I'm asking for trouble. Of all the controversial subjects artists like to argue about, …
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How to Loosen Up Your Painting (and Why You Shouldn’t Do It)
As much as it surprises me, even within realist art I notice a tendency for people to see painting …
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The Problem with Warm and Cool
When I was a beginner, I spent a lot of time doing warm and cool studies. I thought warm and cool …