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Watercolour Techniques

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Watercolour Techniques Colour Palette for Pears: Phthalo Blue, Cadmium Yellow, Lemon Yellow,...

Kick-starting your Painting when in a Block - Annie Monk

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Kick-starting your Painting when in a Block - Annie Monk A painting 'block' happens to all of...

Mixing Colours - Kevin Sculley

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Mixing Colours with Kevin Sculley Using a colour wheel and basic colour theory will help in...

Creating Botanical Books

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The technique of using Gelli plates and rollers to create collage papers, can be used for a...

Painting Freely without fear

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In trying to paint freely its essential to loosening up. Work quickly initially and then slow...

Ann Spencer's - Note book making

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Anne spencer’s flour glue 1 heaped tbsp strong white flour mixed with 250ml water. Heat over a...

Portraits with oil paints - with Jenny Faye 

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Jenny Faye took us through painting portraits using a limited colour palette of paints. She...

Lovely Lemons

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Project Ideas When life hands you lemons, make art (and cake) with them! In addition to being...

Jonathan Newey

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Jonathan took us through creating a watercolour painting using pen and ink, where we all used the...

WOODCUT & WATERCOLOUR

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PREPARING THE PLATE: Design your image on paper to suit the size of the plywood – it will need...

FIGURE SKETCHING

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Mandy Monkcom, a local artist, guided us through creating figure sketches from images. Create...

MOUNTING ARTWORK AND ADDING DETAIL

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Large abstract artwork can be cut and mounted onto paper for a modern tonal piece.

Mark making with collage papers

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Mark making using inks can be made with various tools and really helps to get away from precise...

Making a 'Cola' Dipping Pen

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'Cola' dipping pens are a simple way to make a range of dipping pens with different nibs. You...

Pastel Portrait Top Tips

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Take time to get a good composition on the page. Make sure yoou have the eyelash line, nostrils...

Creating your own collage papers

  Jane has created these 2 videos (amazing work), to illustrate techniques in creating your own...

Watercolour Doodles

A lovely loosening and freeing exercise, using watercolours. Add design detail by doodling with...

Monoprinting: Colour Line & Layer

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Fantastic workshop with Karen Carter, experimenting with monoprinting using several mediums.  Its...

Watercolour Mixing

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Stuart very kindly brought in a guide about colour mixing this week with a suggested colour...
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    Watercolour Techniques

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    Watercolour Techniques Colour Palette for Pears: Phthalo Blue, Cadmium Yellow, Lemon Yellow, Permanent Rose (mixed with Cad Yellow for the ‘blush’ on pears), Ultramarine Blue & Burnt Umber for underpainting shadow colour – Burnt Umber is also good for knocking the brightness out of the darker...

    Kick-starting your Painting when in a Block - Annie Monk

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    Kick-starting your Painting when in a Block - Annie Monk A painting 'block' happens to all of us a some time. Here are some techniques to over come it; Prompts and Ideas for Inspiration: - Observe and study art in magazines, books, catalogues and the internet. - Visit exhibitions in...

    Mixing Colours - Kevin Sculley

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    Mixing Colours with Kevin Sculley Using a colour wheel and basic colour theory will help in creating blended colours using 3 basic primary colours - Cyan or process blue, process yellow and Magenta. Secondary colours are blends of the primary colours on a 50% of each colour. Bear in mind...

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