I had the pleasure of being invited back to Skokholm Island Bird Observatory, off the coast of Pembrokeshire, this year (May 2023) to paint the latest ‘rare bird’ to turn up on the island. The Tennessee Warbler was, as the name suggests a long way from home, when it was seen on the Welsh island […]
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Good oil paint is expensive, and the last thing you want to do is waste it because it dries out on your palette in between painting sessions. Your paint drying out is wasteful and expensive, but the very fact that you know it will dry out can stop you from squeezing out enough paint onto
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Whether you paint with oils, acrylics or watercolours, having to leave that last bit of good paint in the tube because you simply can’t get it out, is annoying. Even if paint was cheap, which it isn’t, it always seems very wasteful to me to start a new tube and abandon that last bit of
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