John Healy is an ex-alcoholic, ex-boxer and for 15 years lived homeless on the streets of …
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Inspiration and practical advice for aspiring realist artists
John Healy is an ex-alcoholic, ex-boxer and for 15 years lived homeless on the streets of …
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Yesterday was the first live webinar I've given since coming out of hospital, and also the first …
An interesting side-effect of turning pro is that I can’t always choose when I paint, mostly because …
Getting your shadows right contributes immensely to being able to create a feeling of form, light …
There's a pervasive idea in painting that colour can't be learned. That you either get colour, or …
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Accurate colour is one of the most important skills you can have as a realist painter. Why? Well, …
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Last week, I wrote about the five modelling factors of a sphere, and how understanding what they are …
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“Paint what you see, not what you know”. I’m sure you’ve heard that before. And most of the …
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If you were to ask me: what the most useful thing I’ve done is, what's made the most …
It’s easy, even trite, to say that if we want to get better at something, we need to …
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