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Painting tips
Get rid of those small bits of pastels- Does fixing pastels make them go darker?
- How to make fingerless painting gloves
- Here's a really versatile way of taking your painting equipment with you
- A simple way of keeping wet oil paintings from getting smudged
- Try painting a scene from memory - this one is in pastel
- Tips from photographers that work well for painters too
- Be careful if you include Dammar varnish in an oil painting medium
- Let more natural light into your home studio
- Don't forget to take the insect repellent!
- Easy way to paint two paintings at the same time on location
- Take simplicity to extremes
- How much detail in your painting?
- Mini sketching kit
- Painting trees in winter
- Granulation with watercolour
- How to make and use a framing viewfinder
- How to use a pochade box for both oil and watercolour painting
- How to set your watercolour painting on fire and dry it at the same time
- Drying a watercolour with a hair drier - the sensible route
- How to get oil paint to dry quicker
- Making and using a simple colour isolator
- How to look after your paint brushes
- An expensive painting tip
- Rough out your painting first with a sketch
- Try out new colors for painting in watercolor
- Think about tone AND colour
A Conversation with...
- How Heidi Taylor paints watercolour portraits
- Picture framing insights with John Caldwell
- Artist David Curtis on using a pochade box to paint the local scene in Staithes
- Ann Jarman on owning an art gallery
- Artist Jo Tunmer shares about her garden art studio
- Bird Artist John Threlfall enthuses about painting birds in acrylic and oil
- Bird Illustrator Richard Allen talks on camera about painting birds in watercolour
- Corry Kooy talks about her approach to pastel painting
- Plein air painter Roos Schuring talks to CAA about painting in all weathers
Reviews
- Review of the ViewCatcher
- Sword brushes in action - Golden open acrylics
- A visit to an exhibition of paintings by Bridget Riley at Kettle's Yard gallery
- Books on how to paint
- Review of Artisan water mixable oil paints
- Review of Griffin fast drying oil paints
- Review of Oil pastels in the studio and out on location
- Review of oilbars in the studio and on location
- Review and introduction to Gouache painting medium
Gallery of paintings
Getting out there - online video
- Finding a secluded place to paint in central London
- Sketching Jazz Musicians in Cambridge internet cafe CB2
- Painting winter birds on location at Titchwell RSPB bird reserve - Norfolk coast UK
- Pochade painting of the Norwich half marathon from the top of my pickup truck
- Painting with water mixable oil paint on location at the Gog Magog hills
- A surprise meeting with another Moleskine sketchbook user at Cambridge Art Salon
- Reviewing watercolours painted now and thirty years ago - progress!
- Charcoal sketching at Fairhaven Singers dress rehearsal - painting in action
- Outdoors painting at a Royal Wedding street party
- Making the best of your painting time on location
- Painting flowers outdoors in oil at a garden centre
- Oil painting wild flowers in a meadow
- Outdoor painting alla prima at Bait's Bite Lock using oils
- A small, quick, pochade oil sketch in King Street, Cambridge, UK
- Oil pastels sketch of roses at Anglesey Abbey
- Pochade oil painting in Haddenham Windmill and meeting with the cat
- Painting on location in oil with late afternoon sun - Clecy rail bridge in France
- Lake at Milton Country Park painted on location using oil paint - speed video
- Lunchtime sketches at Welney bird reserve