Every so often I use a combination of acrylic ink and coloured pencils in my art pieces. They can work really well together – the acrylic inks give you the…
Why do you need to stretch watercolour paper? Watercolour paper likes to buckle. It will buckle at the slightest hint of moisture, at least that’s how it can seem sometimes!…
Enjoy this lovely example of Gymnast wall art. The ink and coloured pencil painting of a gymnast balancing on a beam has recently taken joint top position on a competition…
Here are a couple of watercolour caricatures I made the other weekend when I had some time to kill. Actually, watercolour and a bit of coloured pencils, I do like…
It can be hard to gauge the exact amount of paint that’s needed for a painting. Rather than waste any paint that’s left over (oil paint isn’t cheap you know!)…
I’ve recently added a Colouring Pages section where I’ll be posting various goodies for you to download. To get there just hit the ‘Colouring Pages’ button on the right hand…
Artist Paul Gauguin seems to have been quite a selfish man, abandoning his wife and children in Europe whilst he went swanning off across the globe to have relationships with…
I’m going to be drawing a parrot because it’s Draw A Bird Day. The 8th day of April has been set aside, informally, to remind us to try and enjoy…
Back in November I finally got round to setting up a Twitter Account and had the idea to do a sketch or painting of The Early Bird That Catches The…
It’s been a very long time since I last did a virtual paintout and when I checked out the virtual paintout site he, Bill Guffey, seems to have stopped running…