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NEW Oil Still Life Painting Course – Launch Week Offer!
I’m excited to share that I’ve just finished a NEW Oil Painting Still Life Course, now available. This time, our subject is a simple nectarine still life in oils, and I’m running a 40% off launch-week offer. The course is taught with traditional oils, but you can also follow…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Egg Tempera (From an Acrylic Painter’s Perspective)
I’ve always been curious about egg tempera. There is something intriguing about a painting medium whose essential ingredient is an egg. Yes, an ordinary egg. How can something from the kitchen become the binder for a painting that lasts for centuries? As an acrylic painter, I’m…
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How to Paint a Whistler Nocturne in Oils
James McNeil Whistler, Nocturne Blue and Silver – Chelsea, 1871, Oil paint on wood After visiting the Whistler exhibition at Tate Britan, the Nocturne series really captivated my attention, and I thought it would be an interesting subject for looking at compressed tonal ranges.…
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7 Reasons Why Beginners Fail at Drawing
If you’ve been learning to draw and feel like you’re not getting anywhere, it’s very easy to assume you simply don’t have the talent for it. But in my experience, talent is rarely what holds you back. More often, it comes down to how you’re practising, what you’re expecting from…
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The Materials List Is the End of the Story – The Process Behind a Painting Palette
In many of my paintings, I’ll often start with just a couple of colours and perhaps one brush. Yet if you look at the materials list I ended up using, you’ll see a much larger range. And that process of how I got there can be slightly misleading. It can look as though I sat […]…
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James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain – Exhibition Review
‘To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano.” James McNeill Whistler James McNeill Whistler (1834- 1903) was a remarkably modern painter for his time. His paintings are carefully designed, tonal and…