Skokholm Island Bird Observatory Paintings As is the tradition on Skokholm Island, where I spent 7 wonderful days last week (May 2022), the finder of rare birds paints them for posterity on the toilet wall… Read More »Skokholm Bird Observatory Paintings
Oil paint can be expensive, and the last thing you want is to waste it because it dries out on your palette in between painting sessions. Your paint drying out is of course a pain,… Read More »How To Stop Your Oil Paint Drying Out On Your Palette
How To Get All The Paint Out Of A Tube Of Paint Whether you paint with oils, acrylics or watercolours, having to leave that last bit of good paint in the tube because you simply… Read More »How To Get All The Paint Out Of A Tube Of Paint
How To Protect Your Carpet/Floor When You’re Painting When I moved into my home in 2008 I decided one of the bedrooms was going to be my art studio. I was having carpets fitted throughout… Read More »How To Protect Your Carpet/Floor When You’re Painting
Life Line The new art student walks into the college studio and is confronted with a naked person. Here is nude person standing in the middle of the room, staring out the window and surrounded… Read More »The Importance of Life Drawing | Guest Post by Artist Bern Ross
Why Is Northern Light Best For Artists? In the northern hemisphere, northern light is said to be the best light in which to create art, and this is true, but why is that? Initially, we… Read More »Why Is Northern Light Best For Artists?
How To Make Your Own Painting Video Instead of painting today, I spent the morning trying out some new software called Youtube Movie Maker. This is FREE software that anyone can download, and enables you… Read More »How To Make Your Own Painting Video
Barn owls aren’t as widespread in the UK as they once were, diminishing suitable hunting habitat as a result of modern intensive farming methods being just one of the reasons. However, if you go to the… Read More »Barn Owl Painting
Kingfishers are mesmerising little birds, usually only seen flying past at break-neck speed. Our local wildlife centre here in Cilgerran in west Wales has a healthy population of kingfishers and we’re lucky enough to see them regularly. I’ve painted kingfishers before, but this kingfisher painting was a little different and an exciting challenge. See below the stages as the oil painting progressed from start to finish…
Why A Glass Palette Is The Best Palette You Can Get The one thing I would recommend ever artist use is a glass palette. You can buy one from a art suppliers, or like me,… Read More »Why A Glass Palette Is The Best Palette You Can Get
